...as Ondo Support Groups Members Make Tinubu ‘s Campaign Council

The PBAT Continuity Project has congratulated members of support groups for the reelection of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed into the Presidential Campaign Council, PCC, ahead of the 2027 general elections.

Members of the various support groups , within the Ondo APC were appointed into the PCC, and were inaugurated at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Wednesday October 14, 2026. They are expected to work for the success of President Bola Tinubu in next year’s election.

Among those appointed are Director General, PBAT Continuity Project, PCP, Pastor Femi Agagu, Director General of the, Grassroots Movement for Tinubu, GMT, Hon. Saka Yusuf-Ogunleye,
Director General of the, Asiwaju Mandate Group, AMG, Asiwaju Muyiwa Asagunla.

Among those picked for the PCC’s apex appointment are former Members of House of Representatives, namely; Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin, Hon. Tayo Fawehinmi, Hon Abayomi Sheba
Other leaders of Support Groups appointed include former Commissioner for information, Hon. Yemi Olowolabi, Ondo State Representative on the board of the Nigeria Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Honourable Otito Atikase, former Commissioner for Commerce, Princess Tola Aworh, former Commissioner for Water Resources, Mrs Yetunde Adeyanju and former Member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Abiodun Ogunbi.

Also on the list are, Member, Ondo State House of Assembly Service Commission, Hon. Idowu Adebusuyi, former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Akin Sowore, former member of Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon. Omotayo Abidakun, former Ondo State APC Organising Secretary, Hon. Charles Fagbounka, former Chairman, Okitipupa Local Government, Dr Morenike Alaka, former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor, on Political Affairs, Hon. Isiaka Elegberunibon, Hon. Nimbe Tawose, Hon. Bode Obanla and erudite lawyer, Yomi Akinfenwa.

In a statement, Agagu describes the inclusion of these eminent members as a recognition of loyalty, hard work and unwavering commitment to the APC as a party and the Renewed Hope Agenda of Tinubu as a national project.

Agagu expressed confidence in the ability of the party stalwarts to work vigorously with the other members of the Council across the country towards ensuring a landslide victory for President Tinubu especially in Ondo state.
Agagu praised the Minister of Interior, Hon. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, BTO, for providing all necessary logistics for about 16 support groups in Ondo State. He assured the minister that his huge investments in the reelection of Tinubu would yield massive votes in the next year’s election.

Speaking on behalf of other members of the support groups, Hon. Mayowa Akinfolarin told journalists in Abuja “The appointment of these great APC chieftains into the President’s reelection campaign council is well-deserved and delightful because these are people who have stood firm, worked tirelessly at the grassroots and shown unflinching loyalty to Mr. President’s Renewed Hope Agenda..”

Reinforcing Akinfolarin’s statement, Agagu declared “I have no doubt in my mind that you would add value to the campaign team by coming up with great ideas targeted at further strengthening the council, given your wealth of experience, mobilization capacity and political prowess particularly at the grassroots”

The PCP Director-General charged the appointees to justify the confidence reposed in them by working assiduously to ensure victory for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The group also reaffirmed its total support for the President and the Campaign Council, pledging to continue its grassroots mobilization ahead of the 2027 presidential election.

Dele Oyewale, spokesperson and head of media and publicity of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been inducted as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Diplomacy and Management.

Oyewale was inducted as a Fellow of the Institute on Saturday, October 10, 2026, while the formal presentation ceremony took place on Thursday, October 15, at his office at the EFCC headquarters in Jabi, Abuja.

At the ceremony, Sarki Dogara, representing the Registrar of the Institute, formally bestowed the Fellowship on Oyewale, conferring on him the rights and privileges associated with the Fellowship in accordance with the Institute’s governing laws.

The Fellowship certificate, bearing the seal of the Institute and the signatures of its officers, formally recognises Oyewale’s conferment and affirms the privileges attached to the status.

Oyewale, in his acceptance speech, applauded the offer of Fellowship by the Institute and pledged to be an active and committed member of the Institute. He called on every member of the Institute to join the anti-corruption crusade of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, stressing that public diplomacy and advocacy would go a long way in achieving public ownership in the fight against corruption.

The presentation of the Fellowship was witnessed by Oyewale’s colleagues in the Commission.

The development marks a new professional distinction for the EFCC spokesperson, whose responsibilities as Head of Media and Publicity include communicating the Commission’s activities and engaging the media and the public on its anti-corruption mandate.

The minister of aviation and aerospace development, Festus Keyamo, has said that President Bola Tinubu is clearing unpaid pensions and gratuities owed to former workers of the Nigeria Airways following the airline’s liquidation in September 2004, when Atiku Abubakar was vice-president.

Keyamo made the remark while reacting to a statement by Atiku, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), who blamed the Tinubu administration for the rising cost of living in Nigeria.

Atiku accused Tinubu of implementing economic policies that have made the country more expensive for businesses and households, promising to reverse the trend if elected president.

Responding to Atiku’s statement in a post on X, Keyamo accused the former VP of hypocrisy, alleging that the Olusegun Obasanjo administration, in which Atiku served as vice-president, liquidated the national carrier and left thousands of workers without their pensions and gratuities.

“To add salt into their wounds, you refused to pay them their pensions and gratuities, running into billions of Naira,” the minister said.

“Twenty-two years later, after many of them have died out of frustration, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT is now clearing the mess you left behind.”

He said Tinubu approved and released N36 billion more than a month ago to settle the outstanding benefits and being succour to the affected families.

According to Keyamo, the former workers have started receiving payment alerts, while their union recently gave Tinubu an award in recognition of the intervention.

“Yet you sit down there and pontificate? It’s only the younger ones who don’t know your history you can attempt to hoodwink, but we will expose you to them. You cannot disguise your inordinate ambition in a cloud of rhetorical gibberish,” he said.

“When it is convenient for you, you claim some credit of the Obasanjo-Atiku government and when not convenient, you say Obasanjo was in charge and not you as Vice-President. The proper posturing of a con artist!”

The Federal Government had concluded payment of outstanding severance benefits to 2,100 former workers of Nigeria Airways Limited, more than two decades after the national carrier was liquidated.