President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will chair the campaign council as the ruling party begins an ambitious push for victory in January 2027
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima will lead the APC 2027 campaign as chairman and vice chairman respectively, with former Zamfara State Governor Senator Abdulaziz Yari appointed Director-General of the ruling party’s presidential campaign council for the January 2027 election.
The 108-member council was unveiled on Saturday, August 22, 2026, as the All Progressives Congress moved to give its re-election effort a formal structure.
APC National Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda will serve as another vice chairman, while Imo State Governor Hope Uzodimma has been appointed secretary.
The announcement brings several of the party’s most influential figures into the campaign structure, with the leadership expected to coordinate mobilisation, communications, legal strategy and election planning across the country.
The council’s advisory body includes former APC National Chairman Chief Bisi Akande, Chief Segun Osoba, former Imo State Governor Senator Rochas Okorocha, former APC chairman Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Florence Ita Giwa.
Senate President Godswill Akpabio, House of Representatives Speaker Tajudeen Abbas and Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni will serve as deputy directors-general for the southern and northern zones, working alongside Senator Bamidele Opeyemi and Deputy Senate President Jibril Barau.
Senator Adams Oshiomhole has been assigned responsibility for mobilisation, while the President’s Chief of Staff will oversee administration.
James Abiodun Faleke, who played a prominent role in the 2022 and 2023 campaign, returns as deputy director-general for election planning, coordination and monitoring.
He will work with zonal directors covering the South West, South South, South East, North West, North Central and North East.
The legal directorate will be headed by Muiz Adeyemi Banire, with Dr Liman Hassan and Babatunde Ogala serving as deputies.
Senior figures including Attorney-General of the Federation Prince Lateef Fagbemi, former Katsina State Governor Ibrahim Shema, Worgu Boms and Dr Kingsley Tochukwu Udeh are also listed.
The media and strategic communication structure is similarly extensive.
Minister of Information and National Orientation Mohammed Idris Malagi will serve as coordinating director, working alongside Dele Alake, Bayo Onanuga and Lanre Issa-Onilu.
Tunde Rahman, Sunday Dare, Daniel Bwala and Felix Morka have been named coordinating deputy directors, while Segun Dada returns as director of new media, a position he held during the previous election cycle.
The campaign’s five spokespersons will be led by Alake and include Alwan Hassan, Ayobami Oyalowo, Kemi Asekun-Shittu and Adamu Fanda.
The appointments come after the APC formally retained Tinubu and Shettima as its presidential and vice-presidential candidates for the 2027 election.
Their nomination was submitted to the party leadership in July, with the APC subsequently positioning the incumbent ticket as the centrepiece of its re-election effort.
The ruling party has also spent recent months projecting unity ahead of the contest.
Its national chairman, Yilwatda, recently said the APC would not underestimate opposition figures including former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and former Anambra State Governor Peter Obi, although he expressed confidence in the party’s prospects.
Yari’s appointment also follows weeks of speculation about who would take charge of the campaign’s day-to-day political machinery.
Reports in May had already identified the former Zamfara governor as a leading contender for the position, while other political figures, including Uzodimma, had been associated with possible leadership roles.
The decision ultimately places Yari at the operational centre of a campaign that will have to defend the Tinubu administration’s record while confronting a fragmented but increasingly active opposition landscape.
In his charge to the council, Tinubu urged members to present the administration’s achievements confidently and work towards securing victory for the APC.
“We have delivered on our campaign promises and set our country on a path of economic progress,” the President said, arguing that the country was moving towards the benefits of a stronger economy. (PM News Nigeria)
Tinubu also urged campaign officials to reach beyond those formally listed on the council and involve other party members in the effort.
The President’s message signals the central theme likely to shape the ruling party’s campaign: persuading voters that the economic reforms implemented since May 2023 are beginning to produce tangible results, while asking Nigerians to give the administration another mandate.
The APC enters the campaign season with considerable institutional advantages as the governing party, but the 2027 contest is already taking shape as a competitive national political battle involving established opposition figures and new alliances.
With Yari now tasked with directing the campaign machinery, the ruling party will seek to turn its organisational strength into votes while making its case to Nigerians on the economy, security, infrastructure and governance.
For the APC 2027 campaign, the next challenge will be converting the newly assembled political heavyweight team into a coherent national message capable of reaching voters beyond the party’s traditional support base.
