have a big role if General Muhammed Buhari
becomes the President in 2015. The deal has
kicked off.
The All Progressives Congress has named
Governor Amaechi as the Director-General of the
party’s Presidential Campaign Organization,
which will drive the party’s efforts to win the
2015 presidential election.
APC leadership said 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.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its
National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji 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.
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 up 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.
“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 highest 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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