2023: Alake, Onanuga, Keyamo head Tinubu’s media directorate

The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted the Media and Communication Directorate of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu-Kashim Shettima campaign.

The directorate is made up of three departments.

The three departments are Public Affairs, Media and Publicity, and Strategic Communication.

Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, will continue his role as spokesman of the campaign as Director of Public Affairs.

Dele Alake, a former commissioner for information and newspaper editor, will serve as Director of Strategic Communication. He functioned in the same capacity for the Buhari campaign in 2014-15.

Festus KeyamoBayo Onanuga, the Managing Director of The News/PMNews and former Managing Director of News Agency of Nigeria, will continue in his role as Director of Media and Publicity.

The Directorate will also have six deputy directors that include Mallam Lanre Issa-Onilu, Deputy Director, Communication Strategy; Hannatu Musawa, Deputy Director, Public Affairs, and Kehinde Bamigbetan, Deputy Director, Media relations.

Mallam Modibbo Kawu will be Deputy Director of Media and Publicity, while Mohammed Bulama will be in charge of multi-media. Seun Olufemi-White will be the deputy director New Media.

Onanuga said: “The tripodal arrangement, the first in a presidential campaign, has a line of other assistant directors and senior officials, representing the nation’s various regions with job specifications spelt out.

“The campaign structure will also soon unveil representatives and spokesmen in all the states of the federation.”

The Star