A coalition of Northern Youth has launched awareness
campaign to galvanise support for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo ahead
of 2023 presidential election in Kano.
The group under the auspices of Osinbajo Awareness Campaign
(OAC) unveiled a platform to mobilize 20 million youths across the 19 Northern
states and Federal capital Territory (FCT) in solidarity with the Vice
President as the only trusted candidate who can consolidate the gains of
president Mohammad Buhari’s transformation agenda.
Speaking at the launch of its Kano secretariat and campaign
vehicles on Sunday, National Coordinator of the group, Mubarak Haruna declared
that Nigeria need the calibre of highly patriotic and genuinely detribalised
leaders that can drive the country to greater heights.
He explained that while other pro-Osinbajo platforms
including The Progressive Project (TPP) and the Progressive Consolidation Group
(PCG) focus on the general population, OAC will mobilize 20 million youths
across various political backgrounds in the nineteen Northern states.
Although, Haruna disclosed that Vice President Osinbajo has
not considered throwing his hat in the ring, he declared the readiness of the
group to drive intensive campaign across the Northern part of the country and
drum support for his candidacy come 2023.
The coordinator reminded that Professor Osinbajo has
demonstrated competence and loyalty to manage the complex entity like Nigeria,
cited how he diligently stabilized the nation’s economy while holding brief for
president Muhammadu Buhari.
Haruna pointed out that Osinbajo’s pragmatic demonstration
of commitment to progressive ideals, honesty and people-focused leadership by
example are glaring in the Buhari administration ‘s social empowerment program,
including cash transfer and trader money where several lives of poor and less
privileged Nigerians across the country were positively touched.
Besides the mobilization program, Haruna disclosed that the
group will soon start collecting public opinion and data towards setting
grassroots-oriented public agenda for the 2023 Osinbajo presidential ambition.
“We are launching the awareness campaign across the Northern
states to mobilize support for Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo towards
making him our next president.
“None of us has ever met him in person but from all we know,
we are convinced that the Vice President is the only tested and trusted
candidate that can continue the good works started by President Muhammadu
Buhari.
“It is obvious that Professor Osinbajo is a visionary
leader, a patriotic citizen whose loyalty to one indivisible Nigeria is never
in doubt; he is a detribalised Nigerian who is widely accepted, irrespective of
religion and tribe across the country. We would support him make sure he wins,”
Haruna said.
Reacting to the issue of whether APC should zone
presidential ticket to South or North, Haruna vehemently rejected the agitation
especially from the Northern leaders to retain power in the North.
Haruna asserted that APC should rather consider power shift
to the South if the party truly believes in sustaining a very united
federation.
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