2015: Buhari deploys Dele Alake as new Media Strategist -As Campaign Organisation Vows To Be Ethical, Issues Based In Operations The All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari appears set to deploy a robust media for bracing his efforts to win the 2015 Presidential election as he launches a new Campaign Organisation now headed by a communication expert Dele Alake. Alake became a house hold name in the world of communication in Nigeria with the return of democracy to Nigeria when he served as a media handler for then governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, while he later became the Commissioner of Information, Lagos state. The Buhari Campaign Organisation is to work concertedly with the APC Campaign Machinery headed by the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi In a press statement made available to Newspotng, the new Buhari Campaign Oraganisation vowed to display commitment to “the highest standards of decency and probity” in its operations while providing “honest, credible and responsible information to the general public through the platforms provided by the country’s vibrant media organisations”. The statement signed by Dele Alake said the Buhari Campaign Organisation would imbibe the Nigerian Media Code of Election Coverage, pledging all the same to to co-operate with all media stakeholders to “ensure that the objectives of the coverage, including the need to educate the people on the electoral process, provide informed choices, treat journalists with respect and understanding, are attained”. The statement said while the Buhari Campaign Organisation would be more ethical and professional with its attention focused on addressing issues, it called on the media handlers of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)to produce and propagate only the messages that will enlighten and ennoble the process of choosing the president of the world’s most populous black nation. Alake in the statemen said, “We, at the Buhari Campaign Organisation, hereby pledge to conduct a campaign focused on the issues which will qualitatively uplift the average Nigerian from poverty to prosperity and bring hope to a populace seeking refuge from uncertainty. “The issues of electricity generation and distribution, poverty elimination, eradication of corruption, mass employment and security of lives and property are going to form the focal points of our campaign. “These issues have no ethnic colour. Poverty afflicts the old and the young. Unemployment has no political affiliation. Insecurity damages the economy precariously. Insecurity may be more prominent in the North East in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency but the reality is that Nigerians generally have never been as endangered as they now are. “Our responsibility to the Nigerian people in this campaign is to articulate how to rescue Nigerians from the present danger based on the manifesto of the All Progressives Party. “Our responsibility is to demonstrate that General Muhammadu Buhari has the personal virtues of discipline, honesty and transparency to inspire the change that is imminent. Our responsibility is to communicate how the military skills acquired by Muhammadu Buhari, the generals’ general in a publicly acknowledged distinguished career has made him the most appropriate contestant in the 2015 election with the technical and technocratic skills to crush the rampaging insurgency and bring peace to a nation losing a protracted guerrilla war. “Our responsibility is to make the voters aware that it is indeed historically divine that socio-political forces that were at loggerheads before have now resolved their differences because of the love of Nigeria and have put forward a man of impeccable credential and unparalleled commitment to the national cause for election. “The Buhari-Osinbajo ticket, brings together two institutions which defend the national patrimony and maintain internal harmony. While the military defends the state from aggression, the judicial system defends the law which establishes and maintains the State. Indeed the intellectual, political and spiritual antecedents of Professor Yemi Osinbajo provides the complimentary combination and collaboration that the next Nigerian administration needs- a government that respects the rights of its citizens and enforces their duty to the State. “No nation facing such gargantuan problems of poverty, lack of power, unemployment, corruption and insecurity offered the chance of a rescue by history throws away such a rare chance. It is our conviction that Nigerians, in their hearts, have chosen the way forward by supporting change. “Wherever we go, whoever we turn to, we are embraced by millions of our fellow countrymen who see the hope that we represent. They are visibly and naturally excited by the prospect that at last comes a man who shall take their country back from the precipice”.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:20:06 +0000
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