The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressive
Congress, Yemi Osinbajo, has denied claims by President
Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign that, if his party wins the
coming presidential election, he would resign and hand over
to a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, after six
months in office.
The spokesperson for Mr. Jonathan’s campaign, Femi Fani-
Kayode, made the allegations at a press conference in
Abuja on Friday.
“Senator Tinubu, according to our information, has
compelled Professor Osinbajo to swear to an oath that after
six months in office, he would resign as the vice president,
in the unlikely event that their party wins.
“The wicked plot, as laid out by them, is to force Professor
Osinbajo to resign for Senator Tinubu to be nominated by
General Buhari as his replacement,” Mr. Fani Kayode said.
On Saturday, Mr. Osinbajo laughed off the suggestions,
telling youths who gathered at an event in Ikeja, Lagos that
he, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria could not sign such a pact.
He asked what could ever motivate him to do such a thing.
“I don’t know where people get their story from,” Mr.
Osibajo, a professor said. “Let me tell you, there is no way
in the world I would do such a thing.
“This (serving Nigeria) has been a passion that I carried for
all my adulthood. Let my distractors find more meaningful
things to tell Nigerians.”
At the event, Mr. Osinbajo today spoke about the plans his
party has for Nigerian youth if elected.
He noted that corruption is the problem of the country and
that an APC government would tackle it headlong.
Meanwhile, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has
described Mr. Fani-Kayode’s claim as “sickening and
outlandish”, saying it was designed to divert attention from
the runaway success of the APC presidential candidate,
Muhammadu Buhari, at the Chatham House event in
London Thursday.
In a statement issued in London on Saturday, the party’s
National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, said the PDP
and the Jonathan Administration still do not have any
answer to what has now become an epochal moment that
has separated the wheat from the chaff.
”They have thrown everything imaginable at Gen. Buhari,
but he has continued to wax stronger and stronger: They
said he was not qualified, that he was too old, then they
fabricated a medical report of an illness of their own choice,
sponsored death wish adverts against him and instituted a
myriad of court cases to stop him.
”After they failed to stop him, they went after the election
itself, using the PVCs as a tool to launch a campaign for
postponement and, when they realized that would not work,
came up with the bogey of insecurity in the North-east to
force a postponement of the election, hoping they can buy
enough time to revive their electoral misfortune.
”With everything working against them, they engaged in a
show of shame at The Chatham House that backfired badly,
on the heels of their bare-faced lies that Gen. Buhari was
hospitalized in London. The preposterous claim of a secret
oath – reminiscent of what they do in their own party – by
the apparently ailing spokesman of the Jonathan Campaign
Organization, Femi Fani-Kayode, is their latest desperate
act,” the party said. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL AND TOUCHING NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES BIOGRAPHY AND SCANDALS
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