PDP appoints Governor Ortom to head FCT Council election team

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, was on Friday appointed by the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to head a crack electoral team on the party’s Campaign Council for the forthcoming Local Council Elections in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.

The Independent National Election Commission (INEC) had scheduled the FCT Council election for Saturday, February 12, 2022.

National Organising Secretary of the PDP, Hon. Umar M. Bature, in a statement on Friday evening, stated that “the Campaign Council would be given Secretariat accommodation by the Directorate of Organization & Mobilization (DOM), while urging all aspirants, members of the Party and its teeming supporters in the FCT to remain focused and continue to work hard to achieve victory in the elections”.

The Campaign Council has Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo as Secretary with Nyesom Wike of Rivers and Aminu Waziri Tambuwal of Sokoto as members.

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It also has President of the 6th and 7th Senate, Senator David Alechenu Mark; immediate past Governor of Benue State, Senator Gabriel Suswam; Board of Trustees (BoT) member, Margaret Icheen, and Benue PDP State Chairman, Sir John Ngbede in its membership.

Others were Sen. Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, Barr. Chief Nyesom Wike, CON, Rt. Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Sen. Walid Jibrin,, Sen. Bukola Saraki, Sen. Enyinnaya Abaribe, Ibrahim Idris, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, Sen. Philip Aduda, Sen. Uche Ekwunife, Prof. Jerry Gana, Hajiya Mrs. Zainab Maina, Sen. Zainab Kure and Sen. Solomon Ewuga.

Also in the Campaign Council were Rt. Hon. Theophilus Dakas Shan, Kamaldeen Adeyemi Ajibade, (SAN), Hon. Jiba Y. Micah, Hon. Hassan U. Sokodabo, Hon. Zakka Dogo Sunday Engr. (Dr) Sam Uhuotu, Hon. Babatunde Mohammed, Hon. Francis Orogu, Barr. Tanko Beji, Hon. Chris Hassan, Abdulrahman Mohammed, Hon. Chief Felicia Ebun Owolabi and Hajiya Hadiza Mohammed.