Former military administrator of Akwa Ibom and old Bendel States, Senator Tunde Ogbeha, has been appointed as the Chairman of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal’s presidential campaign.
A statement by the Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the Governor of Sokoto state, Muhammad Bello, said Senator Ogbeha’s appointment takes immediate effect.
Bello said Ogbaha 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.
The Governor of Sokoto State, Tambuwal is one of the frontline presidential aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ogbeha is a retired general from Kogi State. 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.
Senator Ogbeha who had earlier served as a Ambassador is an alumnus of the National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies in Kuru.
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 (NDDC), representing the non-oil-producing North Central region.
