Ogun LG election: APC appoints Faidat Sarumi-Akintunde as campaign council chairperson for Abeokuta North LGA
The apex leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed Alhaja Faidat Sarumi-Akintunde as the Director-General of the APC Campaign Council for Abeokuta North Local Government, with a mandate to ensuring victory for all the party’s candidates in the forthcoming local government election scheduled to hold in the council area and 19 others in Ogun State on November 16, 2024.
An experienced grassroots politician and mobiliser, Alhaja Sarumi-Akintunde is currently the chairperson of the APC in Abeokuta North LGA. As the Director-General of the Campaign Council, she will lead the over 1,000-member council comprised of strong party faithful drawn from across the 16 wards and over 300 polling units in the council area, with the mandate of delivering a landslide victory for all the APC candidates in the November 16 election.
According to the Chairman of the Media and Publicity Sub-committee of the campaign council, Prince Ifekayode Akinbode, the campaign structure was submitted to the secretariat of the Ogun State APC and approved by the state executive committee of the party.
The composition of the campaign council made Abeokuta North LGA the first to set the pace for a robust electioneering campaign structure and management, and it aligned with the vision of the APC to ensure victory in the council election, while further affirming the commitment of all the APC candidates to offer qualitative leadership at the local government upon assuming office after the election.
“The choice of this energetic amazon, Alhaja Faidat Sarumi-Akintunde and her team of men and women of timber and calibre energises and bolsters the commitment of APC to provide credible leadership with integrity, transparency, and accountability at the third tier level of government. Together, we’ll unlock the full potential of our local government, delivering impactful projects and empowering our communities to thrive,” Prince Akinbode asserted.
Prince Akinbode disclosed further that the campaign structure was the first-of-its-kind to be put in place in any local government in the state, adding that it was to ensure no stone was left unturned in a bid to give resounding victory to the APC candidates at the poll.
He said that the activities of the campaign council would include propagation of the ‘Ise Ya’ developmental agenda of the Governor Dapo Abiodun-led administration during the campaign across the nooks and crannies of the 16 wards in Abeokuta North LGA.
Akinbode also said the council would effectively and efficiently communicate the uniqueness of the chairmanship candidate of the party, Hon. Oyegbola-Sodipo, the vice chairmanship candidate, Hon. Taiyelolu Egbeyemi and other candidates, as well as the value they would bring to the governance of the local government.
“The APC is approaching this election with every sense of intentionality and seriousness, and we are committed to a wider reach of our campaign messages. We are working as a unified force to deliver every polling unit and every ward to the APC at the polls. It is against this backdrop that such an extensive and inclusive campaign structure is put in place,” he stated.
In response to her appointment as the chairperson and director-general of the campaign council, Alhaja Sarumi-Akintunde, expressed her gratitude to the leadership of the party for the overwhelming confidence reposed in her ability to mobilise support for and lead the candidates of the party to victory.
She thanked Governor Dapo Abiodun for his unique approach which culminated in the tradition of the APC being able to present a crop of leaders with enviable credentials as the party’s candidates for the election. She vouched that the party’s flag-bearers and candidates were best suited for the offices they were contesting for, describing them as highly intelligent and very versatile in building consensus.
In her words: “This election is going to be a defining moment and we are ready to deliver We are going to drive our structure fully and engage in a rigorous campaign that would give us victory across board come November 16.”
See the full list of the Campaign Council members below
