Osinbajo is best suited to be Nigeria’s next President – Group; Says he should be voted for en masse

The Identify the Right Leader Group, set up to assess the front runners and determine who among them is best suited to be Nigeria’s president come next year’s general election has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo “is best positioned to lead Nigeria in 2023 if empowered.”

The group, based on a detailed report of their assessment of the impact that the Vice President has made in public service so far and his credentials, said that the goal of being voted into office as President of Nigeria should not just be the Vice President’s ambition “but a goal every well-meaning Nigerian should strive to achieve so as to exhume the country from the labyrinth of underdevelopment and waste in governance.”

In the publication, titled The Unveiling Osinbajo…If Empowered  An Impact Assessment, the group stressed that what Nigerians need from the coming election is “a leader who is an orator, a technocrat, with a high level of emotional intelligence who can galvanize the people to believe in our shared values and common goals once again.

“A leader who can reposition the country for greatness again,” and concluded, based on “verifiable and uncontestable impacts” which he has made so far that “No one is more poised or better positioned” to meet the needs of the Nigerian people than Professor Osinbajo.

The report, which is spiced with memorable pictures of the major outings of the Vice President, in Nigeria and abroad, said further that if one man can achieve all the impactful feats embedded in this report, “while serving in subordinate roles, imagine how much he will do when he is in charge,” insisting that “Power in the hands of Osinbajo will indeed be a shining torch that will illuminate the country.”

Identify the Right Leader group noted that their report “is a call of duty to Nigerians to wake up and see how we have been shortchanged as a people in terms of leadership,” insisting that Professor Osinbajo “is the kind of leader Nigeria needs to steer the country off the trajectory of waste and inefficiency in governance.”

The report, the first of its kind in the run up to the 2023 election, also warned that Nigerians “cannot afford to be sentimental about who should lead the country but rather decisions should be based on track records,” noting that “when one considers the impact Yemi Osinbajo has had throughout his sojourn in public office, it is safe to say that Nigeria needs him more than he needs Nigeria.”

It acknowledged that the “Office of the Vice President constrained Yemi Osinbajo’s capacity to perform owing to his constitutional limitations, but his intellectualism and capacity were best expressed as Attorney General of Lagos State and as Acting President of Nigeria,” pointing out that, notwithstanding the constraints, “his policies and impact both locally and internationally are inexhaustible and this report only scratches the surface to display how much one good leader can achieve silently, without fanfare and billboards to blow it up in people’s faces.”

Further stressing the motivation for the report, the group said that their findings “should be a guide in helping politicians, opinion shapers, the populace, and elites to make up their mind that 2023 is not a time for politicking but a time to salvage and save the soul of Nigeria,” insisting that “Osinbajo has displayed capacity to return Nigeria to its glory days as a giant indeed. The onus now lies in our hands as a people to decide what it will be in 2023; ‘business as usual’ or a ‘turning point where things really turn for good.’