Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has appointed key persons to lead his 2023 presidential campaign.
Hafsat Abiola-Costello, daughter of the late politician, businessman and presumed winner of the June 1993 presidential election, Moshood Abiola, is to lead Bello’s presidential campaign organisation as its director-general
Bello also named Jonathan Zwingina, the former director-general of the Moshood Abiola Campaign Organisation and former Senate Deputy Leader, as the national coordinator of his campaign organisation.
Former aviation minister Femi Fani-Kayode, who joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) last year from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was named the deputy national coordinator.
The appointments were made ahead of the formal declaration of Bello for the presidency on Saturday in Abuja, Premium Times reports.
Mrs Abiola-Costello, 47, is a human rights and democracy activist and founder of Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to promote democracy in Nigeria. The organisation was named after her mother Kudirat, who was killed in June 1996 during the struggle to actualise the presidential mandate of her husband.
The Harvard-trained activist also served as Special Adviser MDGs in her home state, Ogun.
Mr Zwingina, 68, hails from Adamawa State. He was at various times information committee chairman and Senate Deputy Leader while in the upper chamber between 1999 and 2007.
Mr Fani-Kayode was the director of media and publicity for the President Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation in 2015.
