SOME members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State under the auspices of Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation (OGO) on Monday held a rally to drum up support for the 2023 presidential aspiration of the vice president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
During the rally, held at Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja, the coordinator of the group, Olusoga Owoeye, described Osinbajo as a trusted, dependable and reliable person who, if given the opportunity to govern the country, would change the fortune of the people and that of the country for the better.
Owoeye said: “Osinbajo will be a candidate of the people. He is not going to be an ordinary party candidate. He is a candidate whose love transcends partisanship.
“We have seen a lot of people from other political parties that ordinarily would not want to vote for an APC but their love for Osinbajo would make them vote for our party (APC). He possesses the requisite knowledge, skills, experience and sagacity to lead the country.”
He said members of the group came out after watching Osinbajo’s declaration to contest for the office of the president in the 2023 general election.
“Professor Yemi Osinbajo today declared to contest for the president. We are all excited and happy. We have been mounting pressure on him for the past 12 months and we are glad that today, he came out that he is going to run. We are glad he has hearkened to our call,” he said.
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According to him, Osinbajo is a good hand to lead the country.
“You have seen him in the last seven years. This is the first time we are going to have a vice president in Nigeria who has been so much involved in the socio-economic activities of the government and he has delivered.
“He is brilliant, he is exceedingly erudite and he has delivered on all the assignments given to him by the president. He is loyal to the country, committed to the Nigeria project and this is the best time for him to run for the oval office,” Owoeye added.
OGO’s Lagos State Secretary-General, Ganiyu Oladipupo, called for the cooperation of other party stalwarts to ensure the emergence of Osinbajo as the APC candidate.
According to him, “this is a rare privilege for the South West to field in a competent and reliable personality and we cannot afford to lose such a huge opportunity.”
Also at the rally were other prominent socio-political groups including The Osinbajo Project (TOP), Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) and Nigerian-American Democratic League (NADL) that identified with the vice president and pledged their support for him.
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