President Bola Tinubu has retrieved the APC 2027 Presidential Campaign Council list for Readjustment to due to anomalies capable of embarrassing the campaign.

The list had elicited several reactions from both within and outside the party since it was made public on Saturday, with many drawing attention to what they consider unnecessary omissions and questionable inclusions in the list.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is to chair the council, with Vice President Kashim Shettima and APC National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, serving as Vice Chairmen I and II respectively, while former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, is to serve as Director-General and Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, will serve as Secretary of the council.

Issues raised about the composition of members of the council include the inclusion of those who many feel shouldn’t be there due to corruption charges against them, exclusion of those who should have been included because of their experiences and those whose names were omitted due to human error.

There were complaints over the inclusion of the former minister for humanitarian affairs, Betta Edu and former chairperson of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) board, Ngozi Olejeme.

Edu is the director, women mobilisation of the council while Olejeme is to serve as South-south zonal director for election planning, coordination and mobilisation.

Edu and Olejeme had cases of alleged financial impropriety against them while serving in public offices.

There are also those who, because of the sensitivity of their office, should not have been named in the committee but were included, like the Chairman of the Nigeria Revenue Service, Zacheus Adedeji, who is to function as the deputy director, fundraising of the council.

Tragedy has struck the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Kogi State following the sudden death of the party chairman in Ijumu Local Government Area, Oyewole Mayowa Solomon.

Solomon reportedly slumped and died on Friday while attending a peace and reconciliation meeting at the Iyara Town Hall, the headquarters of Ijumu Local Government Area.

The circumstances surrounding his death remain unclear. Sources at the meeting said proceedings were ongoing when the party chairman suddenly collapsed, throwing political leaders and delegates into panic and confusion.

He was immediately given first aid and rushed to a medical facility in neighbouring Kabba, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

Solomon’s sudden death has sent shockwaves through the political landscape of Kogi West, coming at a time when the APC is intensifying efforts to reconcile members and strengthen party unity ahead of the 2027 general elections.

The APC state executive and local authorities had yet to issue an official statement on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

Photo: VP Shettima and President Tinubu

The Presidency on released a list of members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, with President Bola Tinubu as Chairman While vice President Kashim Shettima and the Party Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda will serve as chairman and vice chairman, respectively..

The list was released in a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President (Information and Strategy).

The former Zamfara State governor Senator Abdulaziz Yari will serve as the director-general of the campaign. Governor Hope Uzodimma will serve as secretary of the campaign council. APC National Secretary, Senator Ajibola Bashiru and Hadiza Bala-Usman will serve as deputy and assistant secretaries.

Onanuga said that the chairman of the campaign Council, President Tinubu, will work with a body of advisers comprising Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Segun Osoba, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, and Senator Florence Ita Giwa.

The Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker Tajudeen Abass, and Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State have been assigned as deputy director-generals for the campaign in the south and the north.