2023: Gambari stands in for Buhari as APC inaugurates women campaign team

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2023: Gambari stands in for Buhari as APC inaugurates women campaign team

The women’s wing of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign team is currently being inaugurated for the Tinubu-Shettima ticket at the Presidential Villa Abuja.

But the event, which is being held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, has the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof Ibrahim Gambari, representing the President.

The President is currently away in Chad, where he is attending the investiture ceremony of Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno as President of the Transitional Team in the Republic of Chad for two years.

At the event are the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima; the National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu; First Lady Aisha Buhari; wives of the candidate and his running mate, Senator Remi Tinubu and Mrs Nana Shettima.

Others are the Chairman of the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), Governor Simon Lalong; Governors, Hope Uzodinma (Imo); Abdullahi Ganduje; Women Leader of the APC, Beta Edu; other leaders of the party; National Assembly members and others.

Tinubu, while speaking, said the opponents were in power for 16 years but failed to understand the ripple effects of restoring power for industrialisation.

He said with his candidature as President, he would end banditry and poverty and restore hope, peace, and security