Atiku appoints ex-Gov Daniel campaign DG

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar has appointed former Ogun state Governor, Gbenga Daniel, as the Director-General of his campaign for 2019 presidency. In a release personally signed by him, Atiku said Daniel would see to the day-to-day running of his campaign while he “focuses” on his nationwide consultation. The statement read in part: “I am pleased to officially notify you of the appointment of His Excellency, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, OGD, as he is popularly known, as the Director-General of the Atiku Campaign Organisation. “OGD is a former two-term governor of Ogun state, and a foremost engineer, businessman and astute politician. He has vast knowledge of the Nigerian political terrain and has a wide network of contacts and friends all over Nigeria, and these are a few of the assets he will be bringing to our campaign organisation.
“I am in no doubt OGD is a very positive and welcome addition to our campaign and I look forward to working with him as he leads over campaign to victory come February 2019. “Otunba Daniel, a businessman, listed as one of 50 most promising Nigerians in a national newspaper in the 1990s, who started his political career as a young member of the Committee of Friends in the Unity Party of Nigeria, a political party founded by the late sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, in the late 1970s was one of the major fi nanciers of the Agbalajobi’s aspiration to become the governor of Lagos State in the 1990s. His Kresta Laurel office in Maryland in Ikeja also served as the campaign headquarters of the Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 1999 where he also played key roles.” (Premium Times)

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