Former Head of the State, General Muhammadu Buhari emerged as party’s flag-bearer after he beat four other aspirants at the APC presidential primary in Lagos last week.
Law professor, Yemi
Osinbajo, was named APC vice-presidential candidate yesterday, December 17th.
While a national leader of the APC Bola Tinubu withdrew from the race.
The appointment of Amaechi
was issued in a statement by the spokesperson of the main opposition party, Lai
Mohammed in Abuja.
Read full text of the
statement below:
“The All Progressives
Congress, APC, has named Gov. Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as the
Director-General of the APC Presidential Campaign Organization, which will
drive the party’s efforts to win the 2015 presidential election.
In a statement issued in
Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party
said the announcement followed the hugely successful convention at which its
presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was democratically elected, and
the follow-up successful choice of his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
It said Gov. Amaechi’s
outstanding reputation as a man of courage, principle, strength of character,
decency and love of country, as well as his administrative prowess and
organizational skills combined to fetch him perhaps the most important task in
the quest for positive change in Nigeria.
APC thanked Nigerians for
their support and prayers toward the success of the convention, the emergence
of Gen. Buhari as the APC presidential candidate and the choice of Prof.
Osinbajo as his running mate.
The party said it believed
it had lived to its promise to Nigerians to ensure that the choice of its
presidential running mate would be made within the context of the best democratic
ideals, considering the enormously-positive reactions from the general public
to the choice of Prof. Osinbajo.
“With a presidential
candidate that has rekindled the hopes of the citizenry and revived their
belief in democratic ideals, we believe we must also choose a running mate that
will complement the sterling qualities of the presidential candidate. We must
confess that the choice was a tough one, considering the array of
eminently-qualified and outstanding candidates that we had to choose from.
“Yes, we were spoilt for
choice but, in the end, we picked as running mate a man whose pedigree,
nationally, sub-regionally, regionally and globally, attests to the fact that
our party, the APC, is a repository of high quality leadership materials, and that
our country, Nigeria, has no shortage of the very best human resources,” it
said.
APC said whether in the
academic, legal or ecclesial world, Prof. Osinbajo stands much taller than his
physical frame, and serves as a good accompaniment to our presidential
candidate, himself a man of such rare sterling qualities that have stood the
test of time, qualities that are now so sorely lacking in our country’s
leadership.
“Our presidential running
mate is an award-winning professor of law, a legal luminary, a gentleman, a
much-sought-after public speaker, a tested administrator, an author and a man
of great ecclesiastical standing.
“Educated in Nigeria and
the UK, Prof. Osinbajo is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of
Nigeria, who has served in many organizations and professional bodies in
Nigeria, West Africa, Africa and the United Nations. He has authored or edited
over a dozen publications, has taught and practised law at the high levels, and
has served on the Editorial Boards of learned publications and non-legal
publications, in addition to publishing many articles in learned journals.
“Now that we have presented
Nigerians with the best possible choices for the exalted positions of President
and Vice President, we expect that citizens, who have been yearning for quality
leadership, will use their voting power to put Nigeria firmly on the path of
greatness. A country seeking to be among the greats in the comity of nations
cannot afford to have a mediocre leadership,” the party said.
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