The Vice-Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said he is into politics to serve ordinary citizens of Nigeria.
Prof Osinbajo, who was speaking to reporters when he terminated his campaign train at a local food restaurant at the Yaba area of Lagos state, said “for me, my first and primary concern is the citizen.
“I will not be interested in politics if it does not concern the people; if it doesn’t concern men and women like myself”, insisting that “it doesn’t make any sense to me”.
The serving Pastor of Redeemed Christian Church of God further noted that governments must be ready to pay for the legal services of the less privileged in the society in order to give them a voice.
“When I was the Attorney General of Lagos State, we started the Office of the Public Defender. The whole point of that was to make legal services available to every man on the street.
“We started the Directorate Of Citizen’s Rights, that was the first time in this country; now many states have Directorates of Citizen’s Rights” adding that we felt as a government, we must pay to defend the citizen when the citizens cannot afford it” he said.
Prof Osinbajo looks to be testing his popularity at every visible public place in Lagos State ahead of the elections next year.
The Senior Advocate of Nigeria shared a picture on his twitter account while on a Lagos State Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT) on Christmas day and at a shopping mall in the Lekki area of Lagos State to campaign and woo Nigerians to vote for his party in the forthcoming presidential election.
Rode on the bus earlier today and spoke to my fellow citizens, it was better than a thousand seminars ! pic.twitter.com/ceCShmRzn6
— Prof Yemi Osinbajo (@ProfOsinbajo) December 25, 2014
@ProfOsinbajo doing face to face campaign at The Palms, Lekki yesterday. It was awesome; people were excitedly ready pic.twitter.com/0P1swf2w0R — I’m A Progressive (@lanreneville) December 25, 2014
Both images have since generated over 1, 400 retweets and almost 300 favourites.
