2023: Tinubu Campaign Organisation inaugurates 65-man Think-Thank Committee in Abuja
By KEMI KASUMU
As the 2023 election campaign season rides to a start, the Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organisation is not taking aback as it, on Wednesday July 27, 2022, officially unveiled a 65-man Think Tank Committee.
The significance of this Think-Thank is that it will formulate expectations of Nigerians, if the former national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, wins the 2023 general election.
Prof Osareme Osunbor, former Governor of Edo State, Southern Nigeria has been named the head of the Think- Tank Committee that would draft a Rebirth Manifesto to guide Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to address the contemporary needs and expectations of the Nigerian People.
Inaugurating the Think-tank/ Resource Person’s in Abuja, the Director General of Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organization (ATPCO), Dr Adebayo Shittu, said the Think -Tank is mandated to seek from the Nigerian electorate and youth in particular, their expectation from the Tinubu Presidency when it resumes in Government.
Shittu also used the occasion to unveil the national and zonal structures of the Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organization, giving details of members of its Executive Directors and Zonal Coordinators.
According to the former minister of Communications, the national officers are to be assisted by zonal and state coordinators, as they oversee over 300 hundred independent electioneering campaign support groups.
The DG also said the Think -Tank is mandated to seek from the Nigerian electorate and youth in particular, their expectation from the Tinubu Presidency when it resumes in Government.
Shittu declared that, “The Group would then formulate these yearnings and expectations into a workable and implementable action plan to be christened THE REBIRTH MANIFESTO, a manifesto seeking to return to Nigerians a Practicable, implementable, realistic and sincere HOPE which guarantees PROGRESSIVE CHANGE and dynamically TRANSFORMATIVE GOVERNANCE within the first term of the TINUBU GOVERNMENT,”.
The Think-Tank is equally expected to attach timelines for proper monitoring of the implementation of the action plan in the area of” Educational Transformation, Total fight against Insecurity, Provision of full Employment for the Millions of hapless youths who have become distraught over the last 20 years or so, Economic Reconstruction, Agricultural Revolution, Rapid Advancement in Technology, Innovation and Digitization, Infrastructural Development and Impactful Leadership that Nigerians can be proud of.
Shittu also used the occasion to unveil the national and zonal structures of the Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organization, giving details of members of its Executive Directors and Zonal Coordinators
The Executive Directors of the five. Geopolitical zones, except South West, where the Director General hails, and include: Muhammed Ibrahim Sambo (Administration /North East), Dr. Farakwai Yakubu Modibbo (Operation North West), Dr. Bassey David Archibong (Finance/ South-South), Amb. Jerry Ugbokwe (Media & Publicity/ South East)
According to the former minister of Communications, the national officers are to be assisted by zonal and state coordinators, as they oversee over 300 hundred independent electioneering campaign support groups.
In his acceptance speech, the Chairman of the Think Tank Committee, Prof Osareme Osunbor vowed to work within the speculated period given to them and come out with working document that would led to the victory of the Presidential Candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the next general election.
The Committee has four to six weeks to submit its report
