Leadership

APC Members Float Independen­t Campaign Group For Tinubu , Sanwo-Olu In Lagos

- BY GEORGE OKOJIE, Lagos

An Independen­t Campaign Group (ICG) was on Friday constitute­d by members of the All Progressiv­es Congress (APC) in Lagos State for the re-election of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the actualisat­ion of the presidenti­al ambition of the party’s Presidenti­al candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Frontline politician and Christian leader, Cardinal James Odunmbaku, popularly known as Baba Eto, is the chairman of the independen­t group whose role will be complement­ary to the ongoing campaign of the Lagos APC.

The Chief of Staff to the Governor, Mr. Tayo Ayinde, who led a similar effort in 2018, is the Director General of the ICG. Ayinde will be overseeing the activities of all the directorat­es under the group.

The ICG was constitute­d purposely for the mobilisati­on of voters at the grassroots level towards meeting the target of five million votes for the party in the presidenti­al candidate and to deliver votes across Lagos councils for the party’s governorsh­ip flag bearer.

Odunmbaku said the mandate of the ICG was to create a penetratin­g structure that would independen­tly take the party’s campaign activities to the grassroots, adding that the group’s mission was to operate from the grassroots to the top level.

He said: “Our work is a simple but technical one, because we operate from the grassroots to the top level. This Independen­t Campaign Group is an assembly of grassroots volunteers and mobilisers working for the actualisat­ion of the presidenti­al ambition of our leader, Asiwaju Tinubu, and for the reelection of our performing Governor Sanwo-Olu.

Heads of the 60 directorat­es in the group were sworn in on Friday at its office in GRA, Ikeja.

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