Zwingina, Hafsat-Abiola, Fani-Kayode to lead Gov. Bello’s Presidential Campaign
The trio of Jonathan Zwingina, Hafsat Abiola and Femi Fani-Kayode are to lead the presidential compaign of Governor, Yahaya Bello as he declares on Saturday in Abuja.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the presumed winner of the June 1993 presidential election, late Moshood Abiola, is to lead the presidential campaign organisation of the Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, as its director-General.
Also, the Director General of the M.K.O. Abiola Campaign Organisation and former Senate Deputy Leader, Jonathan Zwingina, has been named the national coordinator of the Yahaya Bello Presidential Campaign Organisation and a former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, as deputy national coordinator.
The appointments were made ahead of the formal declaration of Mr Bello for the presidency on Saturday in Abuja.
Mrs Abiola-Costello, 47, is a human rights and democracy activist and founder of Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to promote democracy in Nigeria. The organisation was named after her mother Kudirat, who was killed in June 1996 during the struggle to actualize the presidential mandate of her husband.
The Harvard-trained activist also served as Special Adviser MDGs in her home state, Ogun.
Mr Zwingina, 68, hails from Adamawa State. He was at various times Information Committee chairman and Senate Deputy Leader while in the upper chamber between 1999 and 2007.
Mr Fani-Kayode was the Director of Media and Publicity for the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in 2015. He rejoined the APC last year.
Mr Bello, 46, will complete his second term in office as governor in 2024.
He was first elected governor in 2015 but assumed office on January 27, 2016. He began his second term in office on January 27, 2020.
Before now, supporters of the governor had been going round the country soliciting support for his presidential ambition.
Mr Bello’s party, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has not formally zoned the presidential ticket to any party of the country.
It is not clear if the party will zone it to any particular section of the country or leave it open to all aspirants.
Mr Bello hails from the North-central zone.
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