2023: ‘Attempts to pitch Osinbajo and Tinubu in battle will fail’

Osinbajo and Tinubu

Osinbajo and Tinubu

Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Office of the Vice President, on Monday warned that attempts to foist a crack between Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and    the National leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu ahead 2023 presidency would fail.

Ojudu, in a statement said his attention had been drawn to a media engagement on Channels TV on Monday morning and a front page story of Daily Independent.

”On the Channels TV Sunrise programme two persons supposedly representing Asiwaju Support Group and Osinbajo Support Group were pitched against each other.

”On the other hand, Daily Independent ran an headline thus: 2023 Presidency: Osinbajo On A Collision Course With Tinubu, Pushes To Succeed Buhari

“It is incumbent on me to state emphatically that neither the Vice President nor his office is aware of this or endorse this kind of a divisive engagement and news reports,” he said.

Ojudu stated that Tinubu and Osinbajo are members of same party and that Osinbajo regarded Tinubu as a respected leader of a political family to which he belonged and would therefore not for any reason endorse an endeavour that sought to pitch them against each other.

He added: “We are not unaware of some people who may want to foist a crack among our leaders. Such an attempt is abortive. Osinbajo and Tinubu’s relationship dates way back and it shall continue to wax strong.

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”Let me therefore call on individuals and media houses engaged in this act to desist from doing so. The APC remains one single, indivisible party and Osinbajo remains a loyal member of the party who respects both the party structure as well as its leadership.

”Moreover, the INEC has not given a go ahead yet for politicking towards 2023. As a law abiding citizen, Osinbajo will not commence any act in this regard until INEC blows the whistle, and in any case the VP has not indicated interest in the 2023 elections.”

Ojudu said while appreciating individuals clamouring for Osinbajo to contest, the Vice President’s office, however, wanted to plead that they should not draw him or allow themselves into an unnecessary and precipitous controversy.

“We welcome our great leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu back into the country. As a great democrat himself, he will certainly welcome politics without bitterness and divisiveness. We wish him good health, long life and prosperity,” he said.

 

 

 

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