Former Kogi state commissioner for health, Dr. Idris Omede has been named head of health services committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential campaign council.
In a press statement signed by the presidential council’s director of media and publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, also named former Special Adviser to ex-Kogi governor Idris Wada, Hon. Ogala Ali as member of the health services committee.
Omede, a governorship aspirant of the party in Kogi state, is a former President of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) and immediate past President, Association of Professional Bodies in Nigeria (APBN), told newsmen after the inauguration on Friday in Abuja that the campaign council is ready to hit the ground running to ensure victory of the party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku.
He urged all members of the campaign council to see their nomination as a call to service.
Dr. Omede called on Nigerians to come out enmasse on February 16 to change the country for good by voting Atiku as the next president of the country.
“Let us work hard with commitment and purposefulness to enthrone good leadership, good governance, ensure people welfare, better security of lives and property, job creation, restructure and infrastructure development.” he said.
He assured Nigerians that Atiku presidency will usher in a new vista of hope that will culminate in economic boom, job creation, security and massive infrastructural development across the nation.
Members of the Presidential Campaign Council, Presidential Campaign Committees, Directors and Technical Advisers were inaugurated by the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, on Friday at the Legacy House.
The zonal presidential campaign councils will be inaugurated at their respective geopolitical zones at a date and time as may be convenient to the respective zones.
The party said all zonal vice chairmen are to serve as chairmen of the zonal presidential campaign councils of their respective geopolitical zones.
