Barring
any last minute change in plans, the All Progressives Congress may pick a
former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State,
Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, as the running mate of the APC presidential
candidate, Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.).
Competent
sources in the party told our correspondents on Wednesday that Osinbajo,
who served as justice commissioner during the tenure of former Lagos
State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would be named as the vice
presidential candidate of the APC.
Osinbajo, a professor of Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, may be a candidate of Tinubu.
The choice
of who emerges as Buhari’s running mate has generated intense debate
and interest since the emergence of the former Head of State as the
APC’s flag bearer last Friday.
Governor
of Rivers State, Rotimi Amaechi; his Lagos State counterpart, Babatunde
Fashola; the immediate former governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi ;
Senator Chris Ngige and former National Chairman of the defunct All
Nigerian Peoples Party, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, had previously been tipped as
likely candidate for the vice presidential slot.
But one of
the governors in the South-West told one of our correspondents on
Wednesday, “Osinbajo will likely be named as the vice presidential
candidate today.”
The party
told reporters on Wednesday at the APC’s headquarters in Abuja that the
formal announcement of Buhari’s running mate would be made by 2pm today
(Wednesday).(PUNCH)
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