By Ankeli Emmanuel, Sokoto
Former governor of Sokoto State and Senator representing Sokoto North Senatorial District, Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko will be leading the 37 member committee set up for the Sokoto Central Zone’s 2027 All Progressives Congress campaign, a statement by Abubakar Bawa has confirmed.
Bawa, who is the Director General, Media and Publicity to governor Ahmed Aliyu, said all those appointed to the campaign coulcil are people with cherished political mileage and proven integrity.
According to him, the committee is divided into three, namely that of State, Zonal and Local Government with each having appreciable number of members.
Giving a break of the membership, Bawa said while the leader of the party, former governor and now Senator Wamakko will lead the State campaign council, the Chief of Staff to Governor Ahmed Aliyu, Alhaji Aminu Halilu Dikko will serve as the Secretary of that committee.
Some members of the committee include, the governor, Ahmed Aliyu as Deputy chairman, his deputy, Alhaji Idirs Mohammad Gobir, Minister of Labour and Employment, Maigari Digyadi, and the Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo are all to serve in an Assistant Chairman capacity.
The Sokoto 2027 APC campaign council has Alhaji Sadiq Achida as Director General while the State Chairman of the APC and State Coordinator of 2027 Tinubu Renewed Hope Agenda, Hon. Haruna Sarkin Gobir Adiya is to serve as member too.
The statement read in part, “Hon. Tukur Bala Bodinga, Speaker State House of Assembly, Hon. Deputy Speaker, Kabiru Ibrahim Kware, former deputy governors, Andullahi Chisso and Mukhtari Shagari, Senators Abdallah Wali, Salihu Bakwai, Bello Jibrin Gada and Ibrahim Gobir are all members
Ambassadors Abubakar Shehu Wurno, Sahabi Gada, Kulu Haruna, Bello Sifawa, former governorship candidate of the PDP in the 2023 general election, Saidu Umar Ubandoma, amongst others are members.
The statement added that the Sokoto Central Zonal campaign committee has 41 members with Hon. Barrister Nasiru Dantsoho as Secretary and Hon. Tsalhatu Sidi Mamman as Chairman while that of Sokoto South Senatorial Zone having 36 members with Senator Ibrahim Danbaba Danbua as chairman and Professor Attahiru Ahmad Sifawa as Secretary and that of Sokoto East Zonal Council having Deputy Governor, Muhammad Idris Gobir as chairman and Dr Bashir Achida as Secretary.
The statement as signed by Abubakar Bawa concluded that the State’s 2027 Campaign Council has 23 Local Government Coordinators.
