By Rufus Ike

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has been appointed to lead the National Campaign Council of the APC for the September polls.

Inaugurating the Campaign Council in Benin City, last weekend, National Chairman of the APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun said the party would win the election with ease based on the good records of the outgoing governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Membership of the national campaign council is drawn from serving governors and deputy governors, former governors and deputy governors, serving ministers, senators, members of the House of Representatives and other prominent APC members across the country.

Inaugurating the council, Odigie-Oyegun said the successes of Oshiomhole had made the work of the party an easy task.

He said: “It is an election where even the blind can say yes, he is aware of the development that has taken place. It is an election that even the dumb and the deaf will say yes, they are aware of the great strides that have taken place in Edo State especially in the wake of the ten immediate preceding years to the current administration.

So, as Comrade would say, this is not a state where you earmark projects and programmes; it is a state where you eyemark; you see them; you actually see them on the ground.”

Responding on behalf of members of the national campaign council, Chairman of the council and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, who was represented by the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El Rufai said, “I want to thank the party for giving us this responsibility to manage the campaign that will lead to the election of our brother, Godwin Obaseki as the next Governor of Edo State by God’s grace.

“This is an onerous responsibility, bearing in mind the desperation of that dying party to wake up and get some life. They will use every means to come back to continue the looting that they started in Edo State.”