AFTER days of electrifying consultations and politicking, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress for the February 14, 2015 general elections in Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday picked the former Commissioner of Justice and Attorney General for Lagos State, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, as his running mate for the poll.
 The learned Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN)was named exactly seven days after the party held its primary in Lagos where Buhari beat four aspirants, including  former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, to the ticket.
Yemi Osinbajo is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Senior Partner in the Law firm of Simmons Cooper Partners. His tertiary education was at the University of Lagos and the London School of Economics and Political Science obtaining the LLB and LLM degrees respectively.
He was appointed Lagos State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in 1999 and reappointed for a second term in 2003. During the period of his public service, he commenced the Lagos State justice reform project. A prominent feature of that project was the establishment of the Directorate for Citizens’ Rights (DCR) which provides free legal services and legal representation to indigent citizens of the state. This initiative gave a voice to many who would otherwise not have a way to access their rights.