Former governor of Edo State, Prof Osareme Osunbor, has been named at the head of a 65-member Think-Tank to draft a Rebirth Manifesto to guide Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to address the ”contemporary needs and expectations of the Nigerian People”.
Inaugurating the Think-tank/ Resource Person’s Wednesday in Abuja, Dr Adebayo Shittu, Director General of Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organization (ATPCO) said the Think -Tank is mandated to seek from the Nigerian electorate and youth in particular, their expectation from the Tinubu Presidency when it resumes in government.
“The group would then formulate these yearnings and expectations into a workable and implementable action plan to be christened THE REBIRTH MANIFESTO, a manifesto seeking to return to Nigerians a practicable, implementable, realistic and sincere HOPE which guarantees PROGRESSIVE CHANGE and dynamically TRANSFORMATIVE GOVERNANCE within the first term of the TINUBU GOVERNMENT,” Shittu declared.
The think-tank is equally expected to attach timelines for proper monitoring of the implementation of the action plan in the area of “Educational Transformation, Total fight against Insecurity, Provision of full Employment for the Millions of hapless youths who have become distraught over the last 20 years or so, Economic Reconstruction, Agricultural Revolution, Rapid Advancement in Technology, Innovation and Digitization, Infrastructural Development and Impactful Leadership that Nigerians can be proud of”.
Shittu also used the occasion to unveil the national and zonal structures of the Asiwaju Tinubu Presidential Campaign Organization, giving details of members of its executive directors and zonal coordinators
The executive directors of the five. geopolitical zones, except South West, where the director general hails, and include: Muhammed Ibrahim Sambo (Administration /North East ), Dr. Farakwai Yakubu Modibbo (Operation North West), Dr. Bassey David Archibong (Finance/ South-South ), Amb. Jerry Ugbokwe (Media & Publicity/ South East)
According to the former minister of Communications, the national officers are to be assisted by zonal and state coordinators, as they oversee over 300 hundred independent electioneering campaign support groups.
The think-tank has between four and six weeks to submit its report.
