Some members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos under the auspices of Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation (OGO) on Monday, 11 April, 2022, held a rally for the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo at Adeniyi Jones, Ikeja.
Coordinator of the group, Olusoga Owoeye described Osinbajo as a trusted, dependable and reliable person whom if given the opportunity to govern the country will change the fortune of the people and that of the country for 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 partisan places. 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.”
Owoeye said they came out after watching the Vice President’s declaration.
“We have heard today that Prof Yemi Osinbajo 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 has come out that he is going to run. We are glad he hearkens to our call,” he said.
According to him, Osinbajo is a good material 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 activity of the government and he has delivered…He is brilliant, he is exceedingly erudite and he is delivered on all the assignments given to him by the president so 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,” he said.
OGO’s Lagos State Secretary-General, Ganiyu Oladipupo, appealed for the cooperation of other party stalwarts to ensure the emergence of Osinbajo as the party’s candidate.
According to him, “this is a rare privilege for the Southwest to field in a competent and reliable personality and we cannot afford to lose such a huge opportunity”. Oladipupo said.
Also joined in the rally are The Osinbajo Project (TOP), Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) and Nigerian-American Democratic League (NADL) among others.
