Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that democracy remains the best system of establishing governments because it guarantees respect for the fundamental rights of individuals to choose their leaders.

Prof. Osinbajo stated this today in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, where he chaired a roundtable discussion, which was held in honour of the late governor of the State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, and in commemoration of his posthumous 72nd birthday.

Speaking on the theme of the Roundtable, Election Security and Good Governance in Nigeria, the VP noted that democracy as a “system of governance guarantees the accountability of the elected to the electorate. As the electorate determine in every electoral cycle by their free choice whether the mandate given was properly utilized.”

Referencing the timeless quote by the late US President Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, Prof. Osinbajo submitted that “man has not yet developed a fairer and more just system of establishing governments than that the government be a government of the people by the people for the people.”

“This right of choice of leaders as given by democracy is not just a fundamental civil and political right, but it also separates man from animals for whom might confers the right to leadership,” he added.

According to him “the major issue, therefore, is how to ensure that the right of free choice is not defeated or corrupted. Once that right of free choice is violated, the basis of democracy and its product, good governance, is undermined.”

“I am sure some of the conversation today will look at this fundamental point…how can we protect the vote, how do we ensure that every vote counts; how do we protect the government of the people, by the people, and for the people; and ensure, as Lincoln famously prayed at Gettysburg, that it does not perish from the earth?”

Prof. Osinbajo described the late governor Ajimobi as “an exceptional communicator and a natural bridge builder, who attained early success in the oil and gas industry, and then emerged as an astute politician, Senator of the Federal Republic, and two-term governor of Oyo State.”

The VP added that the late Senator Abiola Ajimobi was “a remarkable human being, an extraordinarily gifted man, astute politician, accomplished public intellectual and administrator in his own right.”

The former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Attahiru Jega, was the lead speaker, among other distinguished panels of discussants.

The Vice President also commissioned the Senator Abiola Ajimobi Resource Center built by the Senator Abiola Ajimobi Foundation at the Institute for Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS), University of Ibadan, Oyo State.

Dignitaries at the event hosted by the late Senator Ajimobi’s wife, Mrs. Florence Ajimobi included the Deputy Governors of Oyo and Osun States: Rauf Olaniyan and Benedict Gboyega Alabi; Minister of Sports and Youth Development Sunday Dare, traditional rulers and top government officials.

ThEGodFaThEr106:
After helping to rig the dullard Buhari into power through Trader Money, the lying pastor knows what is about to go down in south west. He knows the Iragbiji born cocaine criminal drug lord will use a bottle of ororo and a plate of amala ati Ewedu to get their people to vote for him.

omenkaLives:
I hope AfghanEasternis understand the VP is referring to NIGERIANS and not them.

Only Nigerians are allowed to vote in a Nigerian election and not Afghans or Cameroonian Cannibals.

ThEGodFaThEr106:

Which vice president?
You mean a tea and newspaper errand boy in Aso rock?
Yoruba people sef! After spending all their owo ajó in OWAMBE parties they'll go about serenading all the infrastructural facilities with hot Omoluabi shit, popularly called igbę in Yoruba parlance.

endsarrrs:
Go and sleep foreign terrorist! Your mumu be like AsampeteNyaanyi own

ThEGodFaThEr106:

I visited Challenge in Ibadan last week and was surprised at the way the indigenes were staring at my skull while salivating and licking their lips. Nobody told me to board the nearest bus from Guru-Maharaji bus stop and find my way home.

endsarrrs:
lol ...Truly too you mumu like asampetenwaanyi guy. Boogyman old kala is needed at this point

ThEGodFaThEr106:

Who are you calling a Mumu?
I or Your father ?
After selling all his properties in Lagos he's now homeless and sleeping on the roof.

omenkaLives:
I hope AfghanEasternis understand the VP is referring to NIGERIANS and not them.

Only Nigerians are allowed to vote in a Nigerian election and not Afghans or Cameroonian Cannibals.

endsarrrs:
lol ...Truly too you mumu like asampetenwaanyi guy. Ndi Boogyman old kala is needed at this point to comot some legs

endsarrrs:
Go and sleep foreign terrorist! Your mumu be like AsampeteNyaanyi own

Happy Birthday to Buhari

Henryjr:
Osinbabjo is only known for motivational speeches

Truth is, he is not aware of the plans of the president. He speaks the opposite of whatever the presidency have in mind to do.






What a clown��