Festus Keyamo, spokesman of the All Progressives Congress
(APC) presidential campaign council, says there are certain factors being taken
into consideration before the flag-off of the party’s campaign.
Speaking on Wednesday with journalists after a meeting of
the campaign council, the party’s national working committee (NWC), and the
Progressives Governors Forum (PGF), he said one of the things also in
consideration is the presidential “diary”.
“Part of the structure of our campaign involves a
presidential diary. Our campaign is not like those who have done kick and start
with their small vehicles,” he said.
“Our campaign is like maneuvering a 50-tonne trailer into
the highway and once we hit the road, we hit the road.
“So, that is what we
are doing, The president is the chairman of the campaign council. We are going
to take his diary into consideration in picking and choosing the day.
“But we have virtually agreed that we are going to hit the
streets very soon. We have agreed on the region we are going to begin from and
on all other basic issues.”
He added that the party has also approved the manifesto of
Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the party.
“What we did today
was to review the draft of our manifesto. Our candidate is not a candidate that
operates on his own. He tries to carry everybody along,” he said.
“So, he presented the draft of the manifesto to all the
stakeholders. We looked at it and almost all the stakeholders gave the draft a
90 percent pass mark.
“We are not going to take away the thunder away from our
candidate. He is going to present it before Nigerians on a particular day, at a
particular occasion.
“After that, a small committee has been set up to reduce the
document to highlights — major highlights.
“We want to sell the
manifesto to even market women, to the street traders in the most simple
language. We don’t want to present a very complicated document they cannot
understand in simple terms.”
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