Senate President and presidential aspirant on the
platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Bukola Saraki, has named
Dr. Doyin Okupe as chairman of the Media Council for his campaign organisation.
Okupe, a medical doctor and Ogun State-born politician,
had at several times served as the National Publicity Secretary of the defunct
National Republican Convention (NRC) in the aborted Third Republic; Director of
Communications of the presidential campaigns of two former presidents, Olusegun
Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan, and later served as Senior Special Assistant on
Media and Public Affairs to both presidents.
Okupe, according to the Director-General of Saraki
for President Campaign Organisation, will work with other top professionals in
the team to effectively communicate the campaign messages of Saraki to
Nigerians and the international community.
Saraki had penultimate Thursday in Abuja made
public his intention to run for president after due consultations with critical
political stakeholders, including three former Presidents-Ibrahim Babangida,
Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan.
Since his declaration, Saraki had also met with PDP
governors, leaders and delegates in the South-east, South-south, and North Central
regions while his advance delegation led by two senators had also consulted
with party leaders in Northeast and Northwest.
Sources told journalists that Saraki would this week
move to the six South-west states of Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Ondo, Osun and Ekiti to
meet with the party leaders and delegates, and canvass for their support ahead
of the October 6 presidential primaries of the PDP.
The Senate president was last Monday at the Wadada
Plaza headquarters of the PDP in Abuja
to submit his presidential nomination form and letter of intent for the 2019
presidential poll.
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