Amaechi Constitutes Buhari’s Campaign Team Tuesday, Party Decides Campaign Launch Date

Rivers State governor and director general of the Muhammadu Buhari campaign organisation, Governor Chibuike Amaechi, would set up a team of persons he intends to work with in driving the 2015 aspiration of the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari by Tuesday

It’s gathered at the weekend that APC might announce the official launch date for its presidential campaign during a meeting on Monday in Abuja.

Amaechi already has Senator Olorunimbe Mamora as his deputy and a former Commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State, Mr. Oladele Alake, as head of the media department of the campaign organisation. The governor was said to have hinted that the APC presidential election campaign would be strictly issue-based.

Amaechi, who is expected to hit the ground running regarding the presidential drive when he flies into Lagos tomorrow, would earlier in the day kick off the APC governorship campaign in Rivers State.

A source close to the governor said the APC campaign was about giving Nigerians the opportunity to choose “between light and darkness; between success and failure and between failed promises and track record.”

The APC member, who preferred anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the issue, said, “There is no time to waste and this much Amaechi knows. We have less than two months to campaign, so there is no luxury of time. The interesting thing is that Amaechi is very excited about the job; he wants to bring panache to the campaign and set a new pace electioneering in the body polity. That is why once the team is constituted on Tuesday, everybody settles down to work immediately.”

Speaking on preparations for the campaign, Mohammed, said the Independent National Electoral Commission had fixed Friday as the official date for the commencement of election campaigns by all political parties in the country. He said APC leaders would meet to decide on the appropriate date to begin its nationwide campaigns. By this arrangement, APC has about 49 days to prosecute its presidential campaign.

Buhari has secured a new head office in the heart of Abuja for his campaign. The office, a three-storey complex, is located on Herbert Macaulay Way, near the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Towers, in the Central Area of the Federal Capital Territory.

A member of the Buhari campaign team, Mr. Salisu Suleiman, said, “We are working on the finishing touches and hopefully we will be opening the campaign office formally this week.”

The party source said the National Working Committee would be sitting on Monday to consider appeals and petitions arising from the governorship primaries in states where the exercise was being challenged.