The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), may kickstart its campaigns on Monday with the inauguration of the APC Women Presidential Campaign Team.
The elaborate event will hold on Monday at
the Dome Banquet Hall, President Villa, Abuja.
The party presidential candidate, Senator
Bola Ahmed Tinubu who returned to the country on Thursday, visited the venue on
Friday.
President Muhammadu Buhari will chair the
APC Presidential Campaign Council while the First Lady, Aisha Buhari will
preside over the Women Wing of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Team.
Senator representing Lagos Central, Oluremi
Tinubu and former First Lady of Borno State, Nana Shettima, will serve as
chairman and co-Chairman respectively of the Women Wing.
The APC’s women’s campaign team, comprising
over 1,200 women drawn from across the country, is expected to bolster the
party’s gender-sensitive credentials as the APC is also the only major
political party to have a female gubernatorial candidate in the 2023 election
cycle.
Checks by Tribune revealed that for the
seamless promotion of its programmes, the women’s campaign team has been
accorded a degree of autonomy to execute its activities at the national, zonal
and state levels.
“Efforts are also reportedly ongoing to
rally the thousands of women-focused support groups affiliated with the APC for
a nationwide mass mobilisation project,” a party source said.