Yemi Osinbajo reveals who nominated him for Vice-President

The controversy over the emergence of Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria’s Vice-President cropped up again Wednesday night when he declared that he was recommended for the position by ‘some­one’, who he however, declined to name.

The politics of his being picked as running mate to President Muhammadu Bu­hari in the 2015 Presidential Election has been reverberating in the polity for some time.

A portion of the recently-launched biography by American Professor John Paden titled: ‘Muhammadu Buhari: Challenges of Leadership’ claimed that Osin­bajo emerged as Vice Presi­dent despite pressure against it by the National Leader of the All Progressives Con­gress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu.

Paden had in the book on Buhari, stated that the former Lagos State Gover­nor and acclaimed political godfather of the South west wanted the Vice-President’s slot for himself and not Osinbajo.

Other versions of the events had on the other hand reported that Osinbajo became the Vice-President because he was solely nomi­nated by Tinubu.

But Osinbajo apparently broke his silence on the matter in his remarks dur­ing a presidential dinner he organised in honour of over 200 graduates and ben­eficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programmes for ex-Niger Delta militants at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

(TBT)