The spokesman for the All Progressives Congress Presidential
Campaign Council, Festus Keyamo, on Thursday, said that the newly-released
schedule of rallies and activities of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola
Tinubu, is a working draft that is subject to changes.
Keyamo said this in a phone chat with our correspondent
after he released a revised timetable hours after the original schedule was
released.
In the schedule of activities, Tinubu is expected to kick
off his inaugural rally in Jos, Plateau State capital on November 15.
The development is coming after the party initially settled
for Ilorin, Kwara State capital three weeks ago after a series of postponements
following negotiations and disagreement among the party chieftains including
governors and party National Working Committee over the exclusion of their
nominees from the campaign list.
The PUNCH reported that the campaign season officially
kicked off on September 28 while Tinubu was away in London having his vacation.
While presidential candidates of the opposition Peoples
Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar and the Labour Party, Peter Obi, among others,
have begun their campaign in different regions respectively, their counterpart
in the ruling APC prefers to continue with his consultation with stakeholders.
A couple of hours after it went viral on Thursday, the APC
campaign council released an amended schedule of activities and timetable.
While the date of the presidential campaign rally, which
officially begins in Jos on November 15 remains intact, an arranged dinner with
campaign patrons in Abuja was postponed from November 6 to 8.
There will be an interfaith town hall meeting in Abuja on
November 9 and another in Calabar three days later.
According to the revised timetable, there will be series of
rallies in Delta (19), Imo (21), Adamawa (24), Ogun (26), Enugu (29) and Sokoto
(30) respectively.
Between December 4 and 10, the campaign team will embark on
international engagement with stakeholders in Diaspora.
When quizzed on why the timetable was amended again, Keyamo
told our correspondent that the schedule of events and dates was a working
draft, which is still subject to further adjustment.
He said, “They are all subject to change or amendments as we
progress due to human nature. Nobody expected the flood, for example. But it
came, and all of a sudden, it slows down activities and all that.
“So this is a working draft. At least, we have a draft to
work with. My final comment on this is that it is Ceteris Paribus. That is, all
things being equal.”
On why the party changed its venue from Ilorin to Jos in the
space of three weeks, the minister declined comment.
“I have no further comment on that. The reason for those decisions – we are not going to tell the public,” he said.
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