2023: Group Lobbies Lawan, Governors to Support Osinbajo
The Progressives Consolidation Group (PCG) has started lobbying asked highly placed members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to support Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
PCG, a political support group within the APC, argued that the search for Buhari’s successor in 2023 should not be left to chance or last minute ‘survival of the fittest’ contests.
The group said this in a letter by its National Coordinator, Mr. Ahmed Mohammed and its National Secretary, Dr. Eberechukwu Dibia, saying Osinbajo should be collectively adopted as the right successor.
The letter was dated July 14 and titled, “APC and the Future of Nigeria: Why We Must Get It Right and Consider the Osinbajo Option in 2023.”
It was addressed to the Senate President, Dr Ahmed Lawan, APC governors, principal officers in the Senate and House of Representatives, members of the APC National Caretaker Committee, former and serving federal legislators and other critical stakeholders.
It said there was need for early preparation to ensure that Osinbajo and some elements within the current administration emerge to deepen APC and President Muhammadu Buhari’s legacies after 2023.
“With history in mind, we, members of the PCG, hereby join our voices with that of many others in appealing that you throw your weight behind our call for consideration of an Osinbajo successor administration after that of President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, would have run a full course in 2023.
“We believe - without any iota of doubt – that giving a worthy element within the system such as Vice President Osinbajo the chance to lead would not only enrich the system; it would certainly be the best assurance of stability and progress for extant developmental objectives.”
The letter appealed to the party chieftains as major stakeholders in the affairs of the party to join hands with other stakeholders in the party to consider Osinbajo as an appropriate person to fly our party’s the presidential flag comes in 2023
It said the task of inspiring party members ‘towards a shared consciousness of insightful search for Buhari’s successor come 2023 should not be left to chance or last minute ‘survival of the fittest’ contests, stressing that Osinbajo should be collectively adopted as the right successor.