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Stay one lane na, how can you be driving forward with reverse?

Myer:
Then he should resign to save his integrity or whatever is left of it.

I used to defend Osinbajo too cos like you rightly said, the office if the Vice President is more or less a figure head unless the president is indisposed and his responsibilities given to the Vice.

No he wasn't, it was the national assembly. All Atiku did was amass the wealth of this country for himself and his friends.

FunnyJosh:
A lot. Atiku was VP too, he was the biggest opposition to the megalomaniac propensity of Obasanjo. The VP needs to do more than giving motivational speeches at social events.

Star boy shall prevail

This final analogy has him lost in thought...

TheRareGem1:
Not when he expresses his opinion bruh. He's the SA on political adviser, a former lawmaker who is free to express his opinion especially on politics

By now, you should know what the VP says, if you see a statement now, you should know his imprint.

If I am your boss, I know your capability, I know I can trust you, allow you to rep me knowing full well that you will go there without me telling you what to say, Ie delegating you doesn't mean I will tell you what to say. For instance, the VP represent the President on many occasion Outside Africa, does that mean the President tell the VP what to say and what not to say?

So many people on this thread have comments that indicate they didn't read the story. Instead of them to address the writer as Senator Ojodu they are thinking it is VP Osinbajo.

Many people fail to realize the impact that Prof Osinbajo has across board especially as regards to national issues.

A story that didn't catch fire in 2018 is it now that it will be relevant? Now shouting lalasticlala on top of bomboclat. We ain't ready yet. PS: all those allegations against the good person of VP Osinbajo have all been quelled and squashed... Get your head out of the sand Ostrich.

Juliusmalema:
Osinbajo Unlike the Biblical Daniel, His Hypocrisy getting bigger by the day



Of late, the Pharisee called Professor Yemi Osinbajo has been on a roll with his scalding attacks on the immediate-past government. Many are wondering if his pleasant posture when he was the acting president was an adopted persona for personal political gain. Now, as the 2019 election approaches with all its permutations, amid the failure of his party to deliver on its electoral promises, his attacks have grown in intensity. He wants to be seen as some sort of hero and the personification of virtue and ethics for a new Nigeria. But he is not.


He was perhaps also eager to impress his principal – and the world to believe this government is transparent, prudent and abhors corruption. Osinbajo has become the new messenger of a message stymied by its own apostle. He wants everyone to believe he is tough. Unfortunately, the reality also is that he is not. The truth is that our vice-president is a spineless professor.

His pastoral calling and erudition, he had reckoned, would sway his audience as he breathlessly recounted in public events how the previous government stole the nation blind. But his sanctimonious posture about the saint-like character of the Buhari government is undermined by the public evidence of malfeasance going on under their watch. To be honest, Osinbajo initially projected a patina of professionalism in a motley crowd of confused politicians and earned some public applause and praise as the elixir in the mix.


His populist visits to airports, markets and filling stations, even though were publicity stunts, were refreshing and momentarily soothing to the feel, as cosmetic as they were to the underlying problems of mismanagement and the lack of maintenance. But all that seems to have given way, revealing a less-than-noble image of a man too imbued with his own self-righteousness. His jubilant regurgitation of huge amounts of money stolen by others while ignoring the loud evidence against his own party men is a telling testament to the fact that the so-called man of God is not a man of truth. I had been reluctant to call him out on his actions, because of his peculiar circumstances and out of respect for his pastoral calling. But his hypocrisy was getting bigger by the day.


How did things get to this point?

Well, there is a proverb in the land of my fathers that when an otherwise intelligent person mixes with too many clowns, over time, it will become difficult to differentiate one from the other. Osinbajo makes the truth messy in his quest to label others. If he was not ashamed of the two partisan looters lists his government released recently, then I make bold to say Osinbajo cannot be trusted as a fair arbiter of truth. And when next he stands on the pulpit preaching the word of God, I will flee the venue. Remember, the Bible warns us to be careful that towards the end, many false prophets will come and will perform miracles in God's name.


His recent public outings appeared deliberately and desperately designed to shore up the sagging image of his party and its narrative. And to achieve this, Osinbajo deployed pointed hyperboles and pathetic hypocrisies to drive home his message of they are corrupt, we are clean. The irony here is that those still on trial over humongous looting of the treasury but switched from the party of the corrupt, the PDP to the party of the saint, the APC, were suddenly given the deodorant treatment. In Osinbajo's world of dual morality, these ex-sinners are not looters and their loot cannot be used to build schools, hospitals, provide potable drinking water and construct roads, build bridges etc. As the Americans would say, gimme a break!

If people were easily taken in by a bait-and-switch campaign in 2015 to get the APC elected, I can assure Osinbajo that he has to try harder this time around. Why? Because the supposedly penniless man of integrity (was he really penniless in the first place?) who was trusted to right all the wrongs has proved to be a total disappointment on all fronts. The man has surrounded himself with the putative culprits of the system who are still offending. Osinbajo's pastoral morality which had served as a cover for hypocrisy would fail.

Ordinarily, Osinbajo is a man who would have been after my own heart. He approximates Nigeria's new-breed leaders many yearn for. But he appears to have been sucked into the old ways of doing things by his long association with his godfather; unlike the biblical Daniel who when he found himself in a similar situation, displayed an excellent spirit (Daniel 1:8 ). Osinbajo lacks the critical distance needed from the past because he is inextricably tied to the apron strings of Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State. Until Tinubu's regime is probed (I am waiting patiently for that day) for a full accounting and he (Osinbajo) emerges unscathed, I will be reluctant to roll out the red carpet for him. For those who don't know, Osinbajo served as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice for eight years when Tinubu held sway as the governor of Lagos State.

Even more crucial to my grouse about Osinbajo is that he lacks the gumption of a leader and a redeemer he postures to be. He failed the leadership test when under his watch as the acting president, a coalition of northern groups, Arewa Youths Consultative Forum, issued a reckless six-month ultimatum to people of Igbo extraction living in the North to vacate the region before October 1, 2017. What did he do? Nothing! In short, for a long time, he failed to make any comment on the issue. When he finally did, he was appeasing, pleading and making general statements about the need for unity. That single incident injured my estimation and respect for the vice-president.

I expected him to order the immediate arrest of those who issued that statement to send a powerful deterrent message to narrow ethnic agitators in the country that he would not tolerate their challenge. He would have acted against those folks with the full arsenal of the coercive force of the state and the heavens would not have fallen. Having seen that the acting president lacked the ability to enforce and deter, the guys who issued the ultimatum started to stroll about the country unhindered. If they were testing Osinbajo's will to act, they clearly won.

I don't know if members of the Buhari cabinet think highly of him either. If they do, then it certainly didn't look that way when he was the acting president. Remember how the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, casually dismissed Osinbajo's endorsement of the EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu's continuous stay as the anti-graft agency helmsman, as his personal opinion? Because according to him, “The fundamental consideration about the alleged statement is the fact that at no point ever did the Federal Executive Council sit down to arrive at the decision in one way or the other as far as the issue of nomination or otherwise is concerned.

When Osinbajo was the acting president, a large chunk of the $25 billion contracts were awarded by the GMD of NNPC, Maikanti Baru without going through due process, nor was the approval of the board obtained. It is a measure of how highly top officials of this government regard him that even while presidential authority had been transferred to him as the coordinator, Baru would sneak out of town to take contract papers to Buhari who was at the time marooned in a London hospital to sign.

Osinbajo has so far failed to utter any statement of condemnation (until this week's killings in Benue) of terrorist-Fulani herdsmen as they continue the mindless killing of innocent people all over the country. I don't know how this man-of-God pastor[b]sleeps at night knowing that the elected government he serves in as the number two is a government that attaches more value to the lives of cows than that of humans.[/b] I hope one day when he returns to the pulpit to preach the word of God, he will not have cows as his congregation. Remember the Benue State government had accused him of failing to act when as the acting president, the state government alerted him of a plot by terrorist-Fulani herdsmen to unleash violence on some communities in the state. He however denied he was notified.

Sometime last year, Osinbajo in his attempt to impress his boss amid the groundswell of agitation for the restructuring of the country, derided those protesting against their marginalisation by this government. This was how he put it. It is also not true that those who make marginalisation charges are altruistic. Often what they are saying is I am marginalised, appoint me.

I was shocked to the marrow by that statement. Really, I asked myself, how can the cry of maginalisation caused by the deliberate policies of this government and the subsequent clamour for restructuring of the country to make it work better, suddenly translate to seeking appointment from this government. What an insult from Pastor Osinbajo! Is this what small power does to even men of God? Why was he so willing to stake his reputation on another man's conscience?

We saw this before in 2015. Babatunde Fashola, the then governor of Lagos State was all over the place campaigning for Buhari. He lured many to believe the many lies told about the leadership prowess of Buhari to deliver. Today as a minister, Fashola has lost his voice and credibility. Shortly after he handed over power in Lagos, he was found to have misused public money on an industrial scale including inflated contracts to dig two boreholes for a whopping sum of N139 million, upgrade of his personal website for N78.3 million, and sundry malfeasance. Osinbajo is treading the same path as the new poster boy of 2019 to re-elect Buhari even in the face of his glaring failure. He is desperately blaming others for Buhari's colossal failure. He has so far failed to tell Nigerians what Buhari has achieved in three years to deserve a second term other than to say the previous government stole this and that amount.

Now to the very critical point: By now everybody knows the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) looted public treasury to finance the 2015 election. Osinbajo has repeatedly stated this much in his public statements. But what Osinbajo has not ventured to tell the public is how the All Progressives Congress (APC) raised money to finance the 2015 campaign. Charity they say begins at home. If Pastor Osinbajo wanted to succeed in his campaign against corruption, he should have started the cleansing with his party and then apply the same standards to all others.

Only recently, the INEC admitted the Edo and Ondo governorship elections were heavily corrupted and that victory went to the highest bidder. Need I remind Osinbajo that his party, the APC, won the elections? The question is, where did the money used to procure the mandates come from? A man who runs from the truth will eventually find out head got no place to go.

Oh, I just remembered. Someone whispered to me that Osinbajo may have prayed and fasted for seven days, thereafter, the heavens opened and money in different currencies, particularly the U.S dollar and British pounds poured forth and filled Osinbajo house and this was used to finance Buhari's election and the APC's wins in the two states.

Not long after his unfortunate job-seeking remark, Osinbajo declared that Buhari's appointments were in favour of the South. It was one more instance when our so-called man of God stood facts on their heads. [/b]In case he did not know, the heads of the entire national security positions in this country are under the firm control of one ethnic group.

Now, lets imagine for a moment that Osinbajo was not a part of this government; would he have muttered all this nonsense? I guess not! [b]One last word for the pastor vice president, no man has ever succeeded in separating himself from his shadow.



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/04/27/osinbajo-unlike-the-biblical-daniel/

lalasticlala

It's ok to remain grounded on Nigerian issues in diaspora, but to be actively involved in the Dubai strategy as we've come to understand it to be, is unbecoming. Prof Osinbajo's records are unblemished?

Who else ponders on what the relationship was between Olusegun Bamgbose and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo before whatever they might have had turned sour? I asked this because the fascination and dedication that the national coordinator, concerned advocate for good governed has for all news that seeks to drive a wedge between the vice president and hos principal is only bettered by that of a Tasmanian daredevil in a blood lust.

A cursory google search of the new Nigerian people’s party chieftain showed a myriad of topics but one of the most startling is that in which he’s urging Igbo leaders to work hand in hand with self-proclaimed IPOB and ESN leader Nnamdi Kanu to achieve plan. Everyone with a Medulla Oblongata in Nigeria in the last year, knows clearly that the only plan that Mazi has, is that of secession and the way he’s going about that is through violence and mayhem, leaving none, safe in its wake.

The seasoned lawyer who has shown interest in the apex job where he has promised to turn Nigeria around in 24 months if he takes over from Buhari, reminds me of another, in his love-hate relationship with the number 2 citizen being that he has also told Nigerians not to take the covid 19 vaccine and we all know how FANI turned coat. Which going by what Pa Obasanjo told us many years ago should not have been surprising. PS: Anyone with access to FFK should please help us ask him what became of the three southerners who were already being groomed to take over from Osinbajo after his predicted sack from office in February 2020.

Back to Uncle Segun though, can someone please help explain to him the constitutional section that states that it is optional for the President to hand over power if his foreign trip is designated to last more than 21 days. But if he is still adamant about what he wants Bubu to do and how he should do it, then playing him the video of AIR FORCE 1 featuring Harrison Ford while serving him a glass of juice and the new Russian constitution that enables Putin to remain in power for the next 15 years should all come in handy.

People like Bambgose only differ from the Reno’s and Fani’s of this world in that, with the former, they aren’t hired guns for the highest bidder or in the case of the latter, sugared silvered spooned kids whose family name opened doors for them. Yet in the end, they are all united in their love-hate relationship for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo only because of his dedication to his constitutionally empowered office and his loyalty to President Buhari.

The only way to curb these attacks is to ensure that justice is served and the perps brought to book.but for a lasting solution for all parties, the NLTP needs to be implemented across the country.

The weather could be a blessing in disguise... There's a silver lining in even the darkest of clouds

Such an elucidatory piece requires good promotion.

Just when we was saying that vice president Yemi Osinbajo is interested in developing the music industry. This is highly impactful.

A more capable hand to lead this in 2023 there is none.
Prof. Osinbajo proved in those 51 days that like Django unchained he's not to be trifled with on matters that border on the welfare of the average Nigerian.

After not having anything to show for the weekly stipend you get to malign prof Osinbajo you come up with this hogwash that has been disavowed by even the firs themselves... Such a pity.


https://www.thecable.ng/firs-denies-giving-osinbajo-n90bn-election-fund

Clearly you are in possession of an empty faculty clearly unable to discern that the words weren't from the VP nor to recall that the CBN actually appreciated the recommendations made by Prof. Osinbajo

Redoil:
empty talk from the VP that has no respect from the CBN and banks

The one common denominator in all the praise given to Prof Osinbajo is that of loyalty and hardwork. No matter the spin those can never be taken away.

Funny this award is coming in the east,from whence most of the most allegations originate. Good to see that those who have eyes are seeing his good works.

A commitment to ensuring that Nigeria plays it's part in ensuring that net pollution continues to approach zero is commendable and it's not surprising to see Prof Osinbajo at the fore front pushing for these reforms

There's really not so much one can add to the legitimate praise that professor Osinbajo deserves. The fact that he's a man on whose word you can count is a rare trait amongst politicians, but above all, the greatest of all his accolades are the people centric policies he advocates.

He's the pace setter VP, having obliterated the records of those before him, and setting the bar high for those coming after.

A hungry man is an angry man, and after what the country went through especially during the covid-19 lockdown, we have to identify new systems of food production and storage for our ever growing population.

Who ever isn't informed as to the underground shinanigans would fail to see the script bring played out.
A two year old story is dredged up and people are still doing gymnastics over it.
While the contributions of professor Osinbajo populate the country, who can point at one achievement of afenifere?

What i find must intriguing about the national home grown school feeding program is the added advantage that it retains the added advantage of helping to bring back our out of school children.

No matter how the story is told, the truth will always conclude that we are out of the recession due to the impact of the schemes of the economic sustainability plan put together by professor Osinbajo.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has contributed immensely to our escaping the recession. Anyone who fails to realize this is just uninformed

When Prof Osinbajo claimed that geographical restructuring wasn't the best way to go in his opinion, he gave his reasons;

"I have been an advocate, both in court and outside, of fiscal federalism and stronger state governments,”

“I have argued in favour of state police, for the simple reason that policing is a local function. You simply cannot effectively police Nigeria from Abuja; only recently, I made a point that stronger, more autonomous states would effectively eradicate poverty."

In the end what he said them still rang true, all the old generation of Afenifere leaders were still emotionally attached to the old western region ideology.

https://www.thecable.ng/osinbajo-geographical-restructuring-isnt-the-answer-to-our-problems

I will never be party to social media censorship as I am an advocate of free speech, but I am sure that most people will agree that some form of regulation might be welcome as the rate of abuse of that right of free speech is daily worsening. A society without rules collapses upon itself and social media is a particularly sensitive or insensitive society depending on where one stands.

For example, people have now made it into an art form to attempt to grow their followership by outrightly being obnoxious, insultive, and playing to the gallery, feeding off the need of certain persons to dislike leaders rom other tribes or religion as is obtainable in Nigeria, all while believing that they are safe behind their monikers and outlandish usernames.

So when the news broke that Ayokunle Odekunle who had on Saturday gotten a buzz out of wishing the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo dead on the 13th of February which he ten followed with another derogatory swipe at the President and his Vice again yesterday 15th, on his twitter handle @oddy4real, had been suspended by his Canadian law firm in faraway North America, one wonders how far the long arm of the reaches to ensure justice.

It is common to read comments like “we are here for the violence”, “The streets of twitter is for the savage at heart”, “we takes no prisoners” etc, but as we have recently seen, the app themselves are taking a stronger look into the issues of cyberbullying, Fake News propaganda, inciting the populace etc, the most high profile case being Donald Trump who had his personal account deactivated.

In conclusion, A smart man knows what to say, a smart man knows when and where to say it. It is often said that the internet never forgets and when the time comes receipts shall be made available. Only recently, we also learnt about the lady that lost a lucrative academic scholarship to a prestigious university in Australia due to a high-handed castigation of the country’s laws in a tweet she had made four years prior.

This is a very beautiful story. No matter the handicap, strive to prevail.

A report at the start of the week, stated that Nigerians should expect a flurry of attacks on the president but apparently since they'd been caught out on that, and as we say in Nigeria; money cannot waste it was expected that they would turn back to their regular click bait which is to attempt to drive a wedge between the apparently cordial relationship between the Vice president and his principal.

To pick out holes in the authority author's argument is as easy as giving a child a pinyata stick without the eyes being closed. Fortunately I happen to be a loyal supporter of the Arsenal football team and on that regard alone if have stopped reading for the comparisons between the Vice President and Ozil is in itself a great disrespect to the person of Professor Yemi Osinbajo.

The idea of Ozil being a brilliant footballer whose skill set are best accentuated in a team that's superior to it's competitors has long been established and as such playing in an Arsenal team struggling to qualify for the top 4 and failing, part of which can be attributed to the fact that fielding Ozil is tantamount to playing 10 against 11.
If we now factor in the debacle over the Covid-19 pay cut that he declined during the shut down, we can understand why the team's hierarchy were resolute in shutting him out of the the team plus the emergence of Emile Smith-Rowe has put paid to the out right lie as told at the very start of the article for nobody at Arsenal is talking or even thinking about Mr. Ozil.

From football to politics, only the uninformed or deliberately ignorant would join in the "where is Osinbajo?" discuss. A cursory check of his social media handles across twitter, Facebook, Instagram and the web would show how active the Vice President has been, with a pictograph depicting both his weekly and monthly activities making the rounds.

This effectively puts paid to the insinuation that he is not allow allowed to perform his constitutional duties. I agree with Pastor Bakare that were that to be the case, he should resign but just as the respectable Pastor was forced to come on Arise TV to clarify his statement after the press had gone to bed misquoting him just to sell papers "I'm not saying he's being maligned, but if he is, I expect him to come out and say so". He is verily within his rights to opine so and most logical persons would agree

What is completely unacceptable though is the outright lies the author subtly tried to insert in the midst of some truths. For a member of the fourth estate to insinuate that the Vice President went around markets sharing money to market women and petty traders, despite how many times this notion has been corrected only shows that agenda must agenda.

On the claims that Buhari critics are bludgeoning him for comments against former President Jonathan is nothing short of laughable. It would amount to disservice for the Vice President to have these information and not share it. We should also remember that these claims to themselves weren't new as they were already stated by none more knowledgeable than the erstwhile CBN governor Sanusi Lamido who lost his job for declaring that the sum of 20 Billion dollars was missing as well as Okonjo-Iwela former minister of finance who claimed that who ever was going to assume power in 2015 should anticipate for a recession due to the spendings of the Jonathan administration, to paraphrase both of them.

For persons with no truths, it would not be hard to understand yet subvert the fact that handing over when traveling is at the perogative of the President in as much as the trip does not exceed the constitutionally stipulated 21 days. So while the President hasn't handed over power since the sacking of Daura of DSS, he has not spent more than 21 days outside the country, so those who are looking for flames where there is no fire should wait a while longer for when the breach is committed.

All in all, the tremendous work that the Vice President has been involved in has garnered numerous accolades both from the world bank and the AfDB for the NSIP poo programmes as well as the improvements in our ease of doing business rankings in the last three years. The traditional rulers of the North have at numerous times extolled Prof. Osinbajo's proactiveness and loyalty. From the Sultan of Sokoto to the Emirs of Daura, Lagos and Kano to name a few.

His continuous interjections to smoothen relations during the establishment of Amotekun in the southwest with the Federal Executives to return peace to the region as well as the sides taken during the EndSARS struggle will continue to ring the rounds, long after the judicial committees that the NEC which he chairs every Thursday constituted have submitted their reports.

So the gauntlet has been thrown open, the challenge accepted. If the fourth estate won't spread truthful information, them they should be pepper prepared to be continually call called out.

Nicholas Adesina writes in from Ibadan.

https://twitter.com/vanguardngrnews/status/1357910964008583171?s=08