2023: President Buhari To Lead Campaign Train To Southwest As APC Reviews Campaign Calendar

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to lead the All Progressives Congress ( APC) presidential campaign train to the
Southwest zone of the country starting from Ogun State on the 25th of January.

According to the party, the president is expected to attend rallies in Kwara State on January 17; Bauchi on January 23 ahead of the forthcoming general election.

Naija News reports that the development is contained in the revised campaign calendar of the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu.

It was gathered that the APC Presidential Campaign Council (APC-PCC) reviewed the campaign calendar after crucial and strategic meeting among Tinubu, his running mate, Kashim Shetimma, members of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), and the Campaign Council in Abuja on Monday night in Abuja.

This platform understands that in the revised copy of the timetable sighted by The Nation, President Buhari
would be attending the rally in Lafia, Nasarawa State on February 4 while he plays the chief host on the 6th in Kastina State.

The reviewed calendar reveals that the president would also storm Owerri, Imo State on February 14 with the APC campaign train as well as attend the grand finale rally of the campaign on February 18 in Lagos.

The revised campaign calendar further disclosed that the Sokoto campaign earlier slated for January 16 will now hold on January 29 while the South-South mega rally is expected in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State capital on the 30th.

In the revised timetable, Tinubu would hold an interactive session with NESG on January 13, and engage all APC state chairmen, governorship, and National Assembly candidates the next day.

The campaign train will then move to Calabar on January 19 and stop at Taraba State and then in Jigawa State on the 20th.

The train will afterwards move on the 21st to Abia State; Benue (24th), Benue and Zamfara States are hosting on the 26th and 28th respectively while the campaign council round up the month in Anambra on the 31st of January.

It was also gathered that the vice presidential candidate, Shetimma is billed for the launching and commissioning of tractors for the All Farmers Progressive Association in Abuja on 27th January.

And then Kebbi will play host to the team on the 1st of February while Ekiti and Osun will take their turn on the 2nd and 3rd of February.

Rallies in Oyo, Kogi and Rivers States are scheduled for the 7th, 8th and 9th of February and the train will move to the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja on the 11th of February

Hitherto the revision of the timetable, the Gombe, Borno and Kano States rallies which are now slated for the 13th, 15th and 16th of February respectively were billed to have held in January.

Then the team moves to Osun State where the rally will hold on the 18th of February, which was earlier fixed January 18.

Tinubu according to the new calendar will engage in a town hall meeting with health professionals in Nigeria in Abuja on the 10th of February and a strategic engagement with Southwest leaders in Lagos on the 17th of February.

Then the mega rally is planned to round off the campaign on the 18th of February in Lagos while the 21st to 24th of February is earmarked for election planning ahead of the February 25th Presidential and National Assembly election.