Ukorebi Esien | August 23, 2026
ABUJA – Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has secured another major national political assignment after being appointed Director of Women Mobilisation in the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council for the 2027 election.
Edu’s appointment was contained in the list of members of the campaign council released on Saturday, as the APC formally begins preparations for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s re-election bid.
The appointment places Edu at the head of one of the campaign’s key mobilisation directorates and marks a return to a role in which she has previously played a prominent part.
Before her appointment as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in 2023, Edu served as the National Women Leader of the APC, a position she assumed in March 2022. As the party’s National Women Leader, she spearheaded nationwide efforts to mobilise women for the APC and the Tinubu-Shettima presidential ticket ahead of the 2023 general elections.
During that period, Edu led the party’s women mobilisation efforts across the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, including grassroots and door-to-door mobilisation aimed at securing support for Tinubu and the APC.
Her political experience was subsequently followed by a national executive appointment, when President Tinubu appointed her Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation in August 2023. She served in the Federal Executive Council until her suspension from office in January 2024.
With her latest appointment, Edu will once again be responsible for mobilising women for a presidential election campaign, making the 2027 assignment a return to a political responsibility she handled during the 2023 election cycle.
The new campaign council is chaired by President Tinubu, with the APC National Chairman, Professor Nentawe Yilwatda, as Vice Chairman and former Zamfara State Governor, Senator Abdulaziz Yari, as Director-General.
Edu’s return to the campaign structure underscores the importance the APC places on women mobilisation as it seeks to consolidate its support base ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
The appointment also gives the former Cross River State Commissioner for Health another opportunity to operate at the centre of the APC’s national political mobilisation structure, after her earlier leadership of the party’s women wing and subsequent service in the Federal Executive Council.
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