{"id":1123,"date":"2018-12-29T14:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T14:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T12:21:43","slug":"2019-presidency-makes-u-turn-says-dangote-not-part-of-apc-campaign-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2019-presidency-makes-u-turn-says-dangote-not-part-of-apc-campaign-council","title":{"rendered":"2019: Presidency makes U-turn, says Dangote not part of APC campaign council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The presidency has clarified the inclusion of Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote in the All Progressives Congress, APC, 2019 presidential campaign council list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1524595905268-4\" data-google-query-id=\"CKWzwd-Uxd8CFUZB4Aodnw0CtQ\">\n<p>A statement announcing the constitution of the council by Femi Adesina, on Friday afternoon had included Dangote in its list which also had Asiwaju Tinubu, Femi Otedola, Godswill Akpabio among others.<\/p>\n<p>But, another statement released on Friday night by Special Adviser to the President,Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, stated that Aliko Dangote was not a member of the campaign council.<\/p>\n<p>ccording to Adesina, Dangote not being a card carrying member of the APC cannot be on its Presidential campaign council.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads, \u201cIt has become imperative to further clarify the status of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, named under the sub-head ADVISORY MEMBERS in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council announced on Friday, December 28, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfrica\u2019s richest man, not being a card-carrying member of APC, cannot, and is not member of the PCC.<br \/>\n\u201cHe is also a member of the Peace Committee, and thus cannot be in a partisan campaign council.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidency has clarified the inclusion of Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote in the All Progressives Congress, APC, 2019 presidential campaign council list. A statement announcing the constitution of the council by Femi Adesina, on Friday afternoon had included Dangote in its list which also had Asiwaju Tinubu, Femi Otedola, Godswill Akpabio among others. But, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,31,16,20],"tags":[161,162,158],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-miscellaneous","category-parties","category-photo","tag-alico-dangote","tag-poilitics","tag-presidency"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2019: Presidency makes U-turn, says Dangote not part of APC campaign council - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/parties\/2019-presidency-makes-u-turn-says-dangote-not-part-of-apc-campaign-council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2019: Presidency makes U-turn, says Dangote not part of APC campaign council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The presidency has clarified the inclusion of Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote in the All Progressives Congress, APC, 2019 presidential campaign council list. 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