Governor of Sokoto State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rt Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has appointed Senator Tunde Ogbeha as the chairman of his presidential campaign.
The appointment, as stated in a press statement by the Special Adviser (Media and Publicity) to the Governor, Muhammad Bello, is with immediate effect.
Senator Ogbeha is expected to deploy his vast experience in administration, public policy and politics to the campaign and will chair meetings of the Tambuwal Campaign Council.
A retired Army General from Kogi State and former administrator of the old Bendel State during former Military President Ibrahim Babangida administration, Ogbeha will help set up priorities and give direction to the presidential campaign.
The newly-appointed presidential campaign chairman, after the return of democracy rule in 1999, was elected the senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District and he was in the National Assembly from May 1999 to May 2007.
Senator Tunde Ogbeha, who had earlier served as an ambassador, is an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, near Jos, Plateau State.
After leaving the Senate in 2007, Senator Ogbeha became the chairman of the Confluence Cable Network, Kogi State’s first private broadcasting station.
He also became a member of the board of Falcon Securities, a stock brokerage firm and was appointed in 2009 by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua to the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), representing the non-oil-producing North Central region.
