APC deploys govs, stakeholders to secure victory in FCT Area Council polls

ABUJA – The All Progressives Congress (APC) has mobilized its governors and key stakeholders ahead of the February 21 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Area Council election, with party leaders expressing confidence in securing victory.

The National Campaign Council for the 2026 FCT Area Council Election was inaugurated on Friday in Abuja, with National Chairman Professor Nentawe Yilwatda unveiling the party’s strategy. Of the 138 council members led by Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, approximately 25 are incumbent governors.

“We have governors from all these regions, and all of them have been reaching out to the people in their own way, going to the communities, and they have dispatched leadership within those groups and tribes,” Yilwatda stated. “So, we are mobilizing more than any other political party in Nigeria. We are confident we will win the election.”

Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives and Campaign Council Secretary, Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu, declared that the era of APC losing elections in the FCT is over. Making a direct appeal to his Igbo kinsmen for support, Kalu emphasized the community’s inclusion in the current administration.

“My Igbo people that I love and who loves me will not allow me to be ashamed knowing fully well that I’m at the helm of affairs to make sure that the bulk vote of the Igbo communities in Abuja that we harvest them for the greatest party within the black race that is called the APC,” Kalu said.

The Deputy Speaker highlighted the infrastructural development under FCT Minister Nyesom Wike as a key campaign asset. “Under the government of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, there is a great difference from what it used to be and what it is at the moment. I want to also thank the Minister, Wike, who has done tremendously well in not just impacting the urban areas of FCT but making governance to be felt even at the grassroots.”

Kalu emphasized the party’s ground campaign strategy: “These are our campaign tools. That is what we are taking to the market… We will be on the streets. We will be in every household. We will go door to door, business to business to sell the message of APC.”

Addressing past electoral performances in the territory, Kalu asserted, “It will no longer be mentioned that APC lost election in Abuja. That was in the time past. We are about to rewrite the history.”

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Dele Fashomi

Dele Fashomi, seasoned journalist and communication teacher, is a holder of Master of Arts degree in Communication and Language Arts from the University of Ibadan in 1992/93.

Earlier, he had bagged a Bachelor degree from the same university in 1984, after which he proceeded to the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, in 1990, for a postgraduate diploma in Journalism.

He had done many courses in communication, including the EU-BBC Editing Course in 2002.

Mr. Fashomi combines effectively the practice, research and teaching of communication. And to date, he has published two academic works in communication: Issues in Communication Technology and Policy (2010) and Economic and Social Issues in Advertising and PR (2013).

He had his first break in the Nigerian media in Concord Newspapers in 1990 and today, he has over two and half decades experience earned in several newspapers.

He has been part of many start-ups, such as The Republic (1987), The Comet (1999), The Anchor 2001 – 2002; Sun Newspapers (2003); Westerner newsmagazine (2005 – 2010) as Editor; National Life (2011) as Sunday Editor, and Newswatch Newspapers (2012- 2016) as Daily Editor.

Dele Fashomi is now the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Newstide247.com newspaper online, which he started in July 2015. He is also into biography writing, with many books in his trail, some of which he wrote alone and one he co- authored with his mentor, Mr Dare Babarinsa, entitled:  Olabiyi Durojaiye – DARE TO BE DiFFERENT. He also guided and collaborated with Pa Olatunji Odusanya in writing his autobiography – AGAINST ALL ODDS. There are many other books in the works under his pen.

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