The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday named the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, as a member of the party’s campaign council for the Bayelsa governorship poll.

Channels Television reported that, Nigeria’s ruling party named the former governor of Rivers State when it set up campaign councils for the Bayelsa, Kogi, and Imo governorship polls billed for later in the year.

“The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), H. E. Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, CON, in consultation with the National Working Committee (NWC), has approved the composition of the Bayelsa State National Gubernatorial Campaign Council with the primary purpose of leading the gubernatorial campaign in Bayelsa State and ensuring our great Party’s triumph at the November 11, 2023 Governorship election,” the APC said in a circular.

Despite not leaving the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the major opposition party, after a disagreement with it before the February presidential election, Wike was just sworn in as a minister by President Bola Tinubu.

Inuwa Yahaya, the governor of Gombe, was also named as the party’s candidate for governor of Bayelsa, along with co-chairmen Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) George Akume, Godswill Akpabio, Defense Minister Abubakar Badaru, and Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

The 135-member campaign council for the Kogi Governorship election will be led by Ogun Governor Dapo Abiodun. Three governors serve as co-chairmen of the council: Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos, Umar Bago of Niger State, and Uba Sani of Kaduna State.

Bassey Otu, the governor of Cross River State, was designated by the APC as the council’s chairman for the Imo election. Francis Nwifuru, the governor of Ebonyi State, Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker, and Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, the minister of state for labor and employment, serve as the co-chairmen.

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