The spokesman for Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Laolu Akande has revealed that contrary to wide speculations, the visit by the nation’s number two citizen to the 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday night, was not in any way political.
In a post on his verified Twitter handle which was sighted by Africa Today News, New York, Akande disclosed that the Vice President and Tinubu exchanged pleasantries in the spirit of the season.
Recall that Osinbajo had on Wednesday visited the APC flag bearer in his Abuja residence.
Also present during Osinbajo’s visit to Tinubu were the APC vice-presidential candidate, Kashim Shettima; former Speaker of House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole; and other APC bigwigs.
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Africa Today News, New York recalls that Osinbajo was one of the politicians who lost the APC presidential primary to Tinubu in early June and was omitted in the long list of the APC Presidential Campaign Council.
The APC had after the constitution of its Presidential Campaign Council said Osinbajo wasn’t added to the 422-member list because President Muhammadu Buhari ‘specifically directed’ that they should be left out of the Campaign Council to concentrate on the governance of the country.
Meanwhile, President Muhammadu Buhari has said he has been engaged in his presidential duties hence his absence at the campaigns of the All Progressives Congress (APC) so far.
This is even as he assured the ruling party and its candidates in the elections next year that he is ready at all times to campaign for the Presidential Candidate and all party candidates with “full energy and conviction.”
According to a statement by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, Buhari’s comment came to dispel expressed concerns in certain quarters that he has not featured in campaigns since the national launch in Jos, Plateau State.
He stressed that while he remains committed to party politics, the functions and duties of the President will equally be upheld at times.