The camp of the National Leader of the  All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised observations over what it, at the weekend, called the high profile political movements of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo  for the 2023 Presidential race which, it claimed, may have been sanctioned by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Sources in the Tinubu camp believe Osinbajo may be the secret weapon Buhari mentioned in his recent television interview.



The President had during the interview declined to name his candidate for the 2023 presidential election, saying the aspirant may came to harm if he did  so.

The complaint by the Tinubu camp came against the background of high level endorsements and gesticulations by canvassers of the Vice-President’s alleged 2023 presidential aspiration. The endorsements have been especially manifest in the North and recently moved downwards to the South with Delta State as its first launch pad.

The Tinubu camp, which has vowed not to raise the issue with the Presidency is, however, miffed  on  how Osinbajo’s name is being mentioned and projected everywhere for the 2023 presidential election with his boss, Buhari, looking the other way..

“You cannot tell me that the President does not know anything about this and that his deputy is being worked up to take his office and he is ignorant? No, no,” a highly placed confidant of Tinubu revealed yesterday.

Sunday Vanguard reports that the Vice President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, had, recently, denied reports that Osinbajo had, on New Year Day, visited the President to seek his blessing for the 2023 presidential election.

In rebuffing the reports, he said Osinbajo was fixed on delivering assignments as handed to him by the Buhari presidency.

However, the Tinubu camp remained nonplussed  over what it was alleging as a secret agenda with the source saying, “How can your subordinate be moving about like that as if you have anointed him for your office? You send him here and there to expose him?

“If you have a wife and she is misbehaving, who am I to complain when you the husband are indifferent? So, we will keep on watching.”

Meeting

Asked if Osinbajo and Tinubu had met over the Vice-President’s reported aspiration, the source, who ordinarily should know, replied curtly, “I don’t know, but you should know.”

The worries of the Tinubu camp, it was learnt, have been worsened by the dithering procrastination of the APC to hold a National Convention to elect a new set of national officers.

Meanwhile, Sunday Vanguard  learnt that efforts to elect a new national executive may have been stalemated following the inability of the contending forces in the party to reach a compromise, especially on the office of the National Chairman where as many as seven serious contenders have emerged.


It was gathered, at the weekend, that the Presidency may have started reviewing its options for the National Chairman of the party, following the deadlock that has stymied the convocation. One of the principal factors is the claim that Tinubu’s hand was all over the nominees including Senator Tanko Al-Makura who had been considered the favourite of the Presidency.

One source revealed  three names outside the declared aspirants to  include a former Minister in the Buhari regime who was also a principal officer in the House of Representatives from the North-Central.

While some in the Tinubu camp, wrongly or rightly, claim that Osinbajo is the President’s secret weapon, other sources and associates  rebuffed the claim. A source in one of the rival presidential camps told Sunday Vanguard that Osinbajo remains a taboo among close confidants of the President who have his ears.

Others mentioned as possible favourites of Buhari are Mr. Rotimi Amaechi (Transportation Minster), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti Governor),  Babatunde Fashola (Works and Housing Minister) and the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba.

Endorsement

Apparently not having gotten the endorsement of  Buhari at their meeting last week, the Tinubu team, it was further gathered, is determined to press for a level-playing field as its minimum demand.

However, the  camp has vowed not to complain to the President over the issue with associates of the APC National Leader asking for a level-playing ground for all aspirants in the contest for the presidential ticket.

“If they continue like this, we are not tied to the apron strings of the party, at least Asiwaju has a political history,” a source said as he noted that the kind of political marriage that brought up the APC was possible should Atiku Abubakar  also be pushed out of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

An Atiku associate dismissed the claim yesterday.

“We know where the talk is coming from. Yes, Asiwaju has strong pillars in the APC and it is easy to assert that he could join  Waziri (Atiku) to form an unbeatable alliance, but Atiku does not have that perspective. Atiku is abiding in PDP whatever is the case,” the Atiku associate said in rebuffing insinuations of an Atiku – Tinubu alliance.

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Understandably PMB will be more comfortable and dispose to Osinbajo's candidature than any other aspirants in the APC.

However, Mr president is caught in the strong decision to support a competent loyal surbodinate who have shown capacity & a reliable ally who has paid his due.

My understanding is that there's no one who will have the kind of Osinbajo as a VP with the attributes he has shown over 8yrs
& will wants to throw him under the bus when it matters.

Vanguard IPOB Cannibal Newspapers.

Next please!

Exactly my throught. Why not clear the air, if the rumour is false

I thought some mumu Tinubu urchins on Nairaland says We are giving Tinubu free campaign by talking about his corrupt and greedy nature


Una go cry

Tinubu will never be president

Ok

Aufbauh:
Understandably PMB will be more comfortable and dispose to Osinbajo's candidature than any other aspirants in the APC.

Even Tinubu wife will not vote for her husband

all those advocating for a bat presidency should know bat flies only in the night.

PrinceOfLagos:

Even Tinubu wife will not vote for her husband

Mr savage,good morning oh.

E don red ooo

Vote for Atiku /Tinubu for 2023
New party coming

They should first hold the convention ,,so that we go become referee to blow the political football match for all of them to punch each other to Oblivion

Tinubu will lose in SW

Osinbajo as a Nigerian who is eminently qualified and loved across the various regions and tribes of Nigeria has every right to contest presidency of this great country, the Tinubu camp should know that the days of "baba so pe" politics has ended in Nigeria and we're now in the O to ge phase. O to ge for characters like Tinubu who went into politics solely for self agrandizment and not fit public service, if Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really serious about foraging into public service via politics again, he should contest for councillor in Iragbiji and use Mc Oluomo as his deputy there where they'll make a great team instead of insulting the sensibilities of Nigerians

Nonpartisan1:
Vanguard IPOB Cannibal Newspapers.

Next please!

More pains to your eweduu muslim skull my brother. This is your nemesis below.

If the brown teeth won that means cocaine will be sold on the street like purewater