Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad
The All Progressives Congress (APC) have constituted a three-member principal officers for its Media and Communication Directorate of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Kashim Shettima campaign ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
This was contained in a press statement signed by Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media and Publicity of the Tinubu Media Group.
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The directorate is made up of three departments – Public Affairs, Media and Publicity and Strategic Communication.
According to the statement, Bayo Onanuga, the Managing Director of The News and PMNews and a former Managing Director (MD) of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), will continue his role as Director of Media and Publicity.
Also, Dele Alake, a former commissioner of information and veteran editor will serve as Director of Strategic Communication. He served in this role for the Buhari campaign in 2014 to 2015.
While, the Minister of state for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo will continue his role as spokesman of the campaign as Director of Public Affairs.
The Directorate will also have six deputy directors that include Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, Deputy Director, Communication Strategy, Hannatu Musawa, Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Kehinde Bamigbetan, Deputy Director, Media relations.
Mallam Modibbo Kawu will be Deputy Director of Media and Publicity, while Mohammed Bulama will be in charge of multi-media. Seun Olufemi-White will be the deputy director New Media.
The tripodal arrangement, the first in a presidential campaign, has a line of other assistant directors and senior officials, representing the nation’s various regions with job specifications spelt out.
The campaign structure will also soon unveil representatives and spokesmen in all the states of the federation.
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