By Deborah Hassan
365Daily – Sokoto State Governor and presidential aspirant under 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.
A statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Muhammad Bello, on Friday, April 22, 2022, said the appointment is with immediate effect.
Bello said Sen. 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.
He added that he will help set up priorities and give direction to the Campaign.
“Senator Tunde Ogbeha is a retired general from Kogi State, Nigeria, who was administrator of Akwa Ibom State and then of Bendel State during the military rule of General Ibrahim Babangida. After the return to democracy in 1999, he was the elected Senator representing Kogi West constituency of Kogi State from May 1999 to May 2007.
“Tunde Ogbeha, who had earlier served as a Ambassador, is an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru,” the statement disclosed.
It continued: “After leaving the Senate in 2007, Ogbeha became 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, representing the non-oil-producing North Central region.
“He is married with children.”