Buhari appoints PTAD boss Presidential Campaign Director
Sharon Ikeazor and Buhari in 2015
The incumbent Executive Secretary, Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), Sharon Ikeazor, has been appointed All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council Director, South East Council Directorate.
The appointment was consummated recently in Abuja by President Muhammadu Buhari during the inauguration of 2019 APC Presidential Campaign Council.
Meanwhile, the Director, APC Presidential Campaign Council, South East Directorate, Sharon Ikeazor, has convened an inaugural meeting of the council on the 10th of January at the BON Hotel Sunshine, Enugu.
A statement signed by Sharon Ikeazor Esq said there was an overwhelming turnout of party leaders and party executives at the National, Zonal and State levels.
Sharon Ikeazor was born into the family of Chief Chimezie Ikeazor, SAN, of Obosi, Anambra State, the founder of the Legal Aid for the Poor Scheme in Nigeria.
She graduated with an LLB Hons in 1984 and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985.
Sharon has 27 years’ post-graduation experience as a Solicitor and Advocate and a vast knowledge and experience in the field of business development for foreign multinational companies, project management, banking administration, national and international government liaison.
In her career, she worked with international oil companies, international consulting and engineering firms, and rose to become the senior vice president of an international consulting firm.
Sharon Ikeazor is not new in politics, in January 2011, she joined politics and contested and won the post of the national women leader of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). After the merger of three political parties in 2013, she emerged the interim national woman leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Sharon Ikeazor has been with president Buhari since the days of CPC. She is one of the closest female politicians to the president.
Sharon Ikeazor as an Interim National Women Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015 had pledged the party’s readiness to accelerate national economic growth, if voted into power.
Her unrelenting effort as a women leader had contributed immensely to the enthronement of APC in Nigeria in 2015.
However, Ikeazor had told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja that the party had planned to ensure integrated transport network as well as accelerate power supply to boost rural and urban products toward national development.
She said the party would provide affordable health care and free education to Nigerians.
The women leader added that APC would also combat corruption and food insecurity.
Ikeazor had noted that the country needed to educate citizens to enable them translate resources for the benefit of the electorate.
She had advised members of the party to promote national unity and justice to take the country to greater heights.
Ikeazor noted that unity was imperative for the party’s success at all levels, adding that the party could not afford to disappoint Nigerians.
The women leader had urged APC members to work hard to realise the party’s agenda.
