Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has been appointed the Director-General of the ALl Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Organisations after he failed to clinch the party’s vice-presidential ticket.
Amechi was considered one of the top favorites to clinch the party’s VP ticket, but it was a cleric/politician prof Yemi Osibanjo who was sloted in for the running mate ticket.
The organisation is expected to drive the party’s efforts to win the 2015 presidential election.
National publicity secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the announcement followed the successful convention at which its presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, was democratically elected, and the follow-up successful choice of his running mate, Professor Yemi Osinbajo.
It said Amaechi’s outstanding reputation as a man of courage, principle, strength of character, decency and love of country, as well as his administrative prowess and organisational skills combined to fetch him perhaps the most important task in the quest for positive change in Nigeria.
The party thanked Nigerians for their support and prayers toward thae success of the convention, the emergence of General Buhari as its presidential candidate and the choice of Profesor Osinbajo as his running mate.
“With a presidential candidate that has rekindled the hopes of the citizenry and revived their belief in democratic ideals, we believe we must also choose a running mate that will complement the sterling qualities of the presidential candidate.
“We must confess that the choice was a tough one, considering the array of eminently-qualified and outstanding candidates that we had to choose from.
“Yes, we were spoilt for choice but, in the end, we picked as running mate a man whose pedigree, nationally, sub-regionally, regionally and globally, attests to the fact that our party, the APC, is a repository of high quality leadership materials, and that our country, Nigeria, has no shortage of the very best human resources,” it said.
