Despite expressing her unwillingness to campaign for the reelection of her husband, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Team has appointed wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs Aisha Buhari to lead the campaign for women and youths to vote Buhari for a second term in office.
Aisha Buhari, according to a statement by her Director of Information, Mr Suleiman Haruna, is tasked to lead no fewer than 700 Nigerians’ comprising women, youths, artistes, politicians, businessmen and women, serving and retired top public officers, drawn across the country, to campaign for the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket.
This development is in apparent dissonance to Aisha consistent position about the existence of a cabal preventing President Buhari’s government from moving forward as well as impunity in the APC, while threatening not to campaign again or ask any woman to vote for APC and Buhari in the 2019 election.
Aisha Buhari, had in October 2016, during an interview with BBC, said, “The president does not know 45 out of 50, for example, of the people he appointed and I don’t know them either, despite being his wife of 27 years.
“Some people are sitting down in their homes folding their arms only for them to be called to come and head an agency or a ministerial position.
“…If things continue like this up to 2019, I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again,” she then said.
However, the latest assignment by the APC will see President Buhari, on Thursday, in Abuja, inaugurate the Aisha Buhari led Women and Youth Presidential Campaign Team that hathe s wife of the Vice President, Mrs Dolapo Osinbajo as co-chairperson.
Other members of the campaign team are former deputy governor of Lagos state, Mrs Adejoke Adefulire (Vice Chair, South); wife of Nassarawa State governor, Mrs Mairo Al-Makura (Vice Chair, North); Hajiya Binta Mu’azu (Deputy National coordinator, North); wife of Oyo State governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi (South West zonal leader); wife of Imo State governor, Mrs Nkechi Okorocha (South East zonal leader); and Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Mr Solomon Dalung (Member, Advisory Council), Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
The list also includes Professor Pat Utomi; former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu; wife of the Senate President, Mrs Gbemi Saraki; wife of former governor of Osun state, Mrs Sherifat Aregbesola; Southwest Zonal Women Leader of the APC, Mrs Kemi Nelson; son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Olujonwo; son of late frontline politician, Dr Marshall Harry, Sonny; Nollywood artistes like Adebayo Salami, Jide Kosoko, Desmond Elliot, Femi Branch and Ladidi Fagge.
Those who are to also make up the campaign team are representatives of all ethnic youth groups, all APC female National Assembly members, all APC female state Assembly members, all APC female candidates, all APC women leaders at all levels, all APC youth leaders at all levels, all APC female heads of government agencies and parastatals.
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