Nigeria's
biggest opposition the All Progressives Congress, APC, has laid to
rest, speculations regarding the proposed running mate for General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) with its imminent announcement of Yemi Osinbajo
as its candidate.
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
Nigeria's biggest opposition the All Progressives Congress, APC, has laid to rest, speculations regarding the proposed running mate for General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) with its imminent announcement of Yemi Osinbajo as its candidate.
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
Source: TVC
Nigeria's
biggest opposition the All Progressives Congress, APC, has laid to
rest, speculations regarding the proposed running mate for General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) with its imminent announcement of Yemi Osinbajo
as its candidate.
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
Nigeria's
biggest opposition the All Progressives Congress, APC, has laid to
rest, speculations regarding the proposed running mate for General
Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.) with its imminent announcement of Yemi Osinbajo
as its candidate.
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
The former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State will run as Buhari’s Vice Presidential candidate in next year’s general election.
Osinbajo emerged from an expanded list of Christian vice-presidential hopefuls from the South after a meeting of the leadership of the party last night in Abuja.
According to a party source, who was privy to the meeting, Osinbajo was selected because he is a pastor of the Redeemed Church, whose Christian congregants Buhari and the APC are targeting in the 2015 presidential election.
Following the inability of the leadership of the APC to agree on a running mate at a meeting, which started on Monday night, it asked each of the three zones in the South to present their choice of prospective running mates from amongst whom Buhari was expected to select one of them as his deputy.
Other criteria handed to Buhari for the selection of his running mate was that the candidate must be a Christian and either a serving governor or ex-governor with the political clout and popularity to attract votes for the ticket.
On this basis, a raft of vice presidential hopefuls were thrown up yesterday as possible deputies for Buhari.
However, a party chieftain insisted last night that the vice-presidential post was still zoned to the South-west and it was on this basis that it presented the highest number of candidates for Buhari to choose from, before he selected Osinbajo from the pack.
Buhari will face President Goodluck Jonathan in a February 2015 vote to be held against a backdrop of economic troubles and security fears tied to relentless violence by Islamist militants in the country.
Buhari enjoys wide grassroots support, especially in the largely Muslim north, which has felt disenfranchised as power has shifted to the more prosperous majority Christian south.
Himself a Muslim, Buhari took power in a coup in 1983. He is remembered as an iron-fisted ruler who executed armed robbers and drug traffickers, before losing power himself in a 1985 putsch. He is also seen as one of the few Nigerian leaders who never used the top job to enrich himself or his supporters.
Jonathan is the first president from the oil-producing Niger Delta in the south, a region harbouring an enraged sense of entitlement to the oil wealth they live on but from which they have seen scant benefit.
If he loses, militants who disrupted oil output last decade until a 2009 amnesty could resurface.
- See more at: http://www.tvcnews.tv/?q=article/nigeria-apc-picks-osinbajo-vp-candidate#sthash.JxEI1EzL.dpuf
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