As insinuations continue to greet the postponement of the inauguration of the Bola Tinubu-Kashim Shettima campaign, a former Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, has given reasons for the postponement.
According to him, the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari and the Campaign’s Director General, Simon Lalong, occasioned it.
Oshiomhole noted on a TV programme that both had been away for the UNGA programme in the United States.
He said: “As far as I know, the campaign council has not been inaugurated because the chairman of the campaign council, President Muhammadu Buhari was not in the country.
“He was in New York to address the United Nations general assembly. The director-general of the campaign was also in New York for the same purpose and there is no way you want to inaugurate a campaign council in the absence of the president who is also the chairman of the campaign council.
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“What do you expect of the council when the director-general who heads the operational wing of the campaign is also out of the country?
“I am aware the president is back now. I am also aware that the DG is not yet back but will be back by the weekend and I expect that upon his return, there will be consultations looking at the president and DG’s schedule and once we have a clear date, that will be done.”
