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Aisha Buhari, Buhari Campaign Support Group to meet on Wednesday

- Suleiman Haruna said wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari, host an independent advocacy group on Wednesday, December 12

- Haruna, the director of information in the office of the First Lady, added that the event, scheduled to hold at the Banquet Hall of the presidential villa, Abuja

- He said the mission of the group is to unite Nigerians under the progressive agenda of the Buhari administration

Wife of the president, Mrs Aisha Buhari, will on Wednesday, December 12, host an independent advocacy group called “Together Nigeria”, supporting the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the director of information in the office of the First Lady, Suleiman Haruna, made this known on Tuesday, December 11, in Abuja.

Haruna indicated that the event, scheduled to hold at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, would have in attendance some Nollywood actors and musicians from the Southern part of Nigeria as well as key government officials.

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The mission of the group is to unite Nigerians under the progressive agenda of the Buhari administration, he said.

Haruna also explained that the group has engaged in extensive social media campaign to energise youths of voting age on the achievements of Buhari since 2015.

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“Especially, the fight against corruption which yielded positive results through the recovery of billions of Naira from tax evaders and corrupt officials.

“And the delivery of Nigeria’s largest ever social investment and infrastructure programmes benefiting Nigerians across the country,” he said. the group seeks to secure the victory of Buhari in the 2019 general election.

Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that wife of the president, Hajia Aisha Buhari, and Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state called for the sensitisation of stakeholders on the empowerment of the female gender in the country.

Speaking at the launching of two books written by Dame Esther Uduehi on Tuesday, December 11 in Asaba, the duo said there was the need for an attitudinal change on gender mainstreaming in the country and to ensure the empowerment of the women folk.

The title of the books launched were Motivational Factors In The Nigerian Civil Service and Global Development In Gender Mainstreaming-The Nigerian Experience.

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