Yemi Osinbajo emerges APC presidential running mate

by Godwin Akanfe

The former Attorney-General of Lagos state, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been picked by the All Progressives Congress, APC, to run alongside its presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, in next year’s presidential election. This was confirmed to YNaija a few minutes ago by the media team of the Buhari campaign. Professor Osinbajo is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior Partner in the Law firm of SimmonsCooper Partners. He is a professor of law and was the head of department of Public Law at the University of Lagos from 1997-1999.

He previously served as the Special Adviser to the Attorney General of Nigeria (1988-1992), he later became the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State in 1999 reappointed for a second term in 2003. During the period of his public service, he commenced the Lagos State justice reform project. A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free legal services and legal representation to indigent citizens of the state. This initiative gave a voice to many who would otherwise not have a way to access their rights.

He is also the Ethics Adviser to the Advisory Board of the African Development Bank and is a non-executive Director of Citibank. He has served in various roles within the United Nations, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, the United Nations African Institute for Crime Prevention, the International Criminal court for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, the department of Peacekeeping operations and the United Nations Peace Operations in Somalia.

Prof. Osibajo is Co-founder & Board Member Convention on Business Integrity and the Justice Research Institute Ltd. In 2007, Prof. and his wife Oludolapo founded “The Orderly Society Trust”, a non-governmental organization that is dedicated to the promotion of Christian ethics and orderliness.

Comments (3)

  1. what ever the haters may say! the winds of change is more visible & the future of a better Nigeria is becomeing more hopefull! The change is inevictable. BUHARI & PASTOR OSHIBAJO 4 A BETTER NIGERIA!

  2. The APC have picked a candidate possibly hoping to sway the Christian votes, however as was the case in the last elections with the Buhari/Bakare ticket, this will fall flat on its face mostly because of the game of politics.
    A profile doesn’t win elections. Let’s not forget those behind the scenes; Tinubu must not be allowed to dictate how our nation is governed.

    GEJ for president.

    1. Tinubu has produced quality leadership no PDP leader has ever produced. He is greater than GEJ, whose misrule has set us back as a nation piling up national debt previously paid in full by obasanjo. GEJ is a national disgrace and should be stripped of his PHD. Visit the south west states and you will understand what governance is. GEJ needs to do tutorials on leadership under asiwaju.

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