The All Progressives Congress held its first mega rally in Kaduna, drawing a big crowd of social gathering members and supporters to point out organisation and unity. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, who heads the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), commanded the stage with a assured, participating look.
Dabiri-Erewa’s roots within the social gathering run deep. She entered politics in 2003 and spent 12 years within the House of Representatives for Ikorodu, shifting by the Alliance for Democracy and its successor events into the APC. Doubtlessly, the stage fits her.
Before politics, she spent 15 years as a broadcast journalist on the Nigerian Television Authority, the place chatting with the general public was each day work. Her NTA years additionally earned her the nickname Mother Teresa of the Tube for human-interest reporting, a status for caring about odd those that helps when a celebration wants to achieve them.
Dabiri-Erewa additionally has a legislative document to level to. She sponsored or co-sponsored the Freedom of Information Bill, the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Bill and the Disability Rights Bill, chaired the Media Committee and later the Diaspora Affairs Committee, and opposed Olusegun Obasanjo’s third-term agenda.
Under the APC authorities, she grew to become President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora in 2016 and, in 2019, the primary Chairman and Chief Executive of NiDCOM. Under her management, NiDCOM has coordinated evacuations and repatriations of hundreds of stranded Nigerians throughout crises in Sudan and Ukraine, and it took half within the rescue of Zainab Aliyu in Saudi Arabia.
The Kaduna rally was the social gathering’s inaugural mega rally, so it units the usual for those who comply with and had such an excellent individual as a cover. Its message was unity, and the APC now has to point out the identical cohesion in its wards and native constructions.
