• VP commissions first PYO Presidential Campaign Office in Port Harcourt
By Oluwafemi Popoola
Barely two weeks to the All progressives Congress (APC) Convention slated for May 29, 2022, the arrival of the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, in Rivers State was applauded by the delegates and stakeholders of the party who ushered him into the state known as “treasure base of the nation.”
The Vice President, who was in Rivers State, in continuation of his tour of states for meeting with delegates and stakeholders of the party, also commissioned the first PYO Presidential Campaign Office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, which was greeted by loud applause from the crowd of people that gathered.
While the Vice President dedicated his campaign office to God, expressing confidence that a new day has come to Nigeria, he said, it was a great pleasure for him to be in the state, to officially open the PYO Campaign Office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Preparing to cut the ribbon for the official commissioning of the edifice, the Vice President, declared: “We commission the PYO Campaign Office for the benefit of our party and the benefit of Nigeria, and we declare here, this coming election, including the primaries, we will win, the PYO campaign will win, Professor Yemi Osinbajo will win, and all of us who are here will win, in Jesus Mighty Name,” to what the large gathering shouted a resounding “Amen.”
Osinbajo Opens Campaign Office
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Earlier in his meeting with the Rivers State APC executives and party delegates, the Vice President called for their support in cheering the party to victory at the general elections, while also appealing for calmness and decorum among his fellow aspirants, saying contestants should give no room for animosity or conflict in the process.
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He advised that others should rally around whoever clinches the presidential ticket for the sake of the party, while addressing the APC delegates and stakeholders during his visit to Rivers State, Port Harcourt, on Thursday, May 19, 2022.
During his ongoing consultations with the stakeholders and delegates of the APC in the state, Osinbajo said: ” There is no need for any kind of conflict especially all of us who are presidential aspirants. All of us who are presidential aspirants have either worked together, ate together in one place or the other I mean.”
“Amaechi has been to my house several times, he knows my family, I know his family, his son and my son are close friends, we work together in every possible way, we are all aspirants today but only one person will emerge, not two, only one and we must be prepared to work with that person, that is the way up.”
Continuing, the VP remarked that he was pleased that they (the delegates) were ready to interact with him and ask some questions about his ambition which he said he would gladly answer.
He said, “We need more energy here in Rivers State, just like the Chairman has said, there is a lot to fight for.”
“We will make progress by God’s grace. Let me first thank you very much the Chairman, the Exco and all members of our great party who are here for a very warm welcome and for being here to welcome me to this great state and our party and our party secretariat.”
“I must tell you that there is nowhere in the country that we are not proud of the APC here in Rivers State. Everyone, every member of our party. The simple reason is that those of us in the opposition long enough know what it is to be an opposition party.
We in Lagos were in opposition for 16 years. So, we know what it is, we know how we can be oppressed when you are in the opposition and how difficult it is to survive so that you are vibrant like you are able to come together in large numbers,” the Vice President said.
