Breaking: 2023: APC Women Endorse VP Osinbajo As Nigeria’s Next President…Tinubu Snookered?

APC women have endorsed VP Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria’s next president.

The women wing of the All Progressive Congress have endorsed Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria’s next president.

The women who had their conference today in Abuja which was ably led by Nigeria’s First Lady,Aisha Buhari spoke on the sidelines of the conference to announce that VP Yemi osinbajo is their choice to take over from President Buhari.

Hundreds of women from across the country on Tuesday stormed the Abuja International Conference Centre, venue of the All Progressive Congress APC National Women’s Conference to demand the actualization of a Prof. Yemi Osinbajo presidency in 2023.

With an emphatic presence, the women’s coalition which included market women, farmers, traders, artisans and professionals chorused demand for Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo to become the APC Presidential Candidate in 2023.

They urged the party’s caretaker committee to strictly ensure that delegates to its national convention are not hijacked by those who have participated in looting state or federal resources in the past.

Leader of the Steering Committee of Women’s Coalition for Osinbajo, Hajia Rabi Dauda who addressed journalists at the venue emphasized that women’s assessment of the current line up of presidential aspirants across various political parties indicates that Osinbajo is the best option for Nigerian women.

“We are rooting for Osinbajo, not because there are no other aspirants but because he is the most qualified and the one with the most easily predictable disposition towards development issues that are of utmost concern to women.

“Nigerian women trust Osinbajo more than any other presidential aspirant and he already has an idea of what the specific challenges of governance in present times really mean.

“We believe that Osinbajo can consolidate upon whatever good foundation that Baba Buhari has laid and Nigerian women are more optimistic about prospects for a better future under an Osinbajo presidency.

“At this APC National Women’s Conference and beyond here, we are urging all Nigerian women to actively mobilize support for Osinbajo in the interest of generations yet unborn because 2023 elections will leave very enduring impact on the fate of Nigeria,” she said.

Speaking in a similar vein, Madam Scholastica Dominic who led a group of market women to join the women’s coalition for a peaceful rally at the International Conference Centre stated that it was a voluntary demonstration of support.

“He is healthy, youth-friendly and women-friendly and he represents positive change.

“Besides, Osinbajo has demonstrated keen disposition towards seeing things from the perspective of market women and he can make things easy for us; indeed, we believe that he has great capacity to move Nigeria forward”, she said.

Also, Evangelist Ochoja who is a member of the inter-faith group within the women’s coalition expressed women’s confidence in Osinbajo’s preparedness to justify the nation’s collective hopes, adding that many people like her who cannot be swayed with money prefer to back Osinbajo in view of demonstrated capacity to serve with empathy.