Amaechi Leads APC Presidential Campaign Team

Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, has been appointed as Director General of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization.

Amaechi’s appointment, according to a statement issued by the APC National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, will drive the party’s efforts to win the 2015 presidential election.

The statement said the announcement followed the hugely successful convention which produced the party’s presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, and the subsequent selection of his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

According to the statement, “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.”

The party 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.

.”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.

“Whether in the academic, legal or ecclesial world, Prof. Osinbajo stands much taller than his physical frame, and serves as a good accompaniment to our presidential candidate, himself a man of such rare sterling qualities that have stood the test of time, qualities that are now so sorely lacking in our country’s leadership,” the party said.

Credit: The Nation