By Matthew Ajai-Kume
All Progressives Congress (APC) Benue State chapter has charged its members recently appointed into the party’s Presidential Campaign Council to be steadfast and committed to the victory of their presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.
A statement made available to newsmen by the Publicity Secretary, APC, Benue State chapter, Daniel Ihomun said, the party has congratulated all its members and senior stakeholders in the state on their recent appointments into the APC presidential campaign council.
The statement read in part: “The APC in Benue State is glad that the party has found rare personalities of focus in the state for appointment into the Presidential Campaign Council.
“We have no doubt that all our members appointed are round pegs in round holes.”
According to the statement, the party considered it a privilege to congratulate its leader in Benue State, Sen. George Akume as a member of the presidential campaign council, the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Revd Fr Hyacinth Alia, as Benue State Coordinator of the presidential campaign council, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, Sen. Barnabas Gemade, Chief Audu Ogbe, Isaac Shaahu, Sen. Ameh Ebute and Christopher Tarka as members, as well as, Hanmation Mark, Director, Youth Mobilisation, North Central.
“These appointments are a testament to their political sagacity laced with experience, capacity, and competencies required to head such sensitive positions in the presidential campaign council,” the statement maintained.
It further stated that, the noble national assignments required the leadership and coordination of persons with unquestionable character, integrity, vast political experience and honest understanding of Nigeria’s diversity as a nation.
The party in the statement, pledged to support all members appointed into the council to succeed in their new responsibilities, and also mobilize massive votes and support for the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu to come out victorious in the 2023 general elections.
“We commend the national leadership of our great party, the APC and its presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, for recognizing the enormous hard work of APC members in Benue State and finding some of them worthy of such sensitive assignments,” it added.