From Okwe Obi, Abuja
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, Sen. Tanko Al-Makura, former Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbe and Kashim Iman are among those heading directorates in the Tinubu/Shettima Independent Campaign Council (lCC).
Also heading a Directorate is the former Acting National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Hilliard Eta, while the former Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State, Silas Agara is the National Coordinator of the Council.
The ICC was established to compliment the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), which its focus shall be grassroots.
ICC Director of Media and Publicity Committee, Hilliard Eta, in a statement yesterday said, “a special purpose vehicle, the Tinubu/ Shettima Grassroots Campaign Council has been unveiled in Abuja.
“The ICC has His Excellency, Silas Agara former Deputy Governor of Nasarawa State as National Coordinator.”
Elaborating the functions of ICC, Eta said, “It would compliment the newly inaugurated Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) and it focus shall be the grassroots.
“The ICC would also seek to expand the support base of the APC Presidential bearer, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu to the hinterlands of the country.
“It would also adopt door to door, hamlet to hamlet campaigns/Visitations, voters sensitization, outreach meetings amongst others.
“Among the the key Directorates in the ICC are: Contact an Mobilization, headed by Babatunde Fashola SAN, Media and Publicity, headed by Ntufam Hilliard Eta; Reconciliation and Integration Committee, headed by Chief Audu Ogbe; Supports Groups and NGOs Committee, headed by Senator Tanko Al-Makura; Finance and Fundraising, headed Alhaji Kashim Iman.”