Despite the outcome of the results of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Special Convention for its presidential primary on Wednesday, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has said that he remains committed to the dream of a new Nigeria.
The Vice-President stated this in Abuja yesterday, at the campaign office of ‘The Progressive Project’ (TPP), a coalition of support groups that backed the vice-president for the presidency.
The VP also stated that he will support the winner and flag-bearer of the APC for the 2023 presidential elections, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The VP was received by a large crowd at the TPP Office in Abuja.
In his address to the crowd of supporters, the VP described the clamour for a new Nigeria as a movement.
According to the vice-president, despite the result of the APC presidential primary, “the dream of a new country remains alive and well… We will have at the back of our minds, that what you have started in the various movements, coming into one, is the seed that will birth a new nation. You and I know the time has come and we will devote everything to it.”
“I am committed and will remain committed to that dream (of a new Nigeria), for as long as you are willing and recognise that we have not yet written the story of this country; we have not yet completed the story of this country. As a matter of fact, the story has just begun, this movement has just started.”
The VP further said, “a new Nigeria has only just started, and everywhere across this land, it will be clear to all that a new Nigeria has been born. Once the genie comes out of the bottle, you cannot put it back. The word has been spoken; it cannot be taken back: it is time for a New Nigeria.”
Pledging support for the APC presidential candidate for the 2023 elections, Osinbajo recalled the personal letter he wrote to Tinubu yesterday congratulating him on his victory at the party primary.
Thanking Nigerians at home and abroad, including the Osinbajo supporters’ groups, for the overwhelming support for his presidential bid, Prof. Osinbajo noted that “when we started this race, I never believed that we would have so many young men and women who would believe so passionately in the cause of a new Nigeria.”
Expressing his gratitude to them, he said, “everybody said, oh, everyone has lost hope, there is no future, we are all tired, we are in despair. But when you came out in your numbers across the country – the volunteers’ movement, the progressive union, the women’s movement, all across the country, saying the same thing, I knew that it was time. And you made it clear to everyone that indeed it is time for a new Nigeria.
