A key member of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Ayodele Adewale, has declared that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will not be contesting for presidency in 2023 against his political godfather and benefactor, former Lagos governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Comrade Ayodele spoke when he appeared as a guest at the Citypeople Political Round table on Monday, 21 February 2022.
“You see, we should keep our eyes on the ball and don’t get distracted. Prof is doing his constitutional duty as a Vice president. Those people that are campaigning for him to be President,after Prof’s tenure as vice president, what will happen to those people? The truth is they want to keep Prof in office to secure their jobs.
Prof has said countless times that he’s not having any ambition, that he just wants to do his work. So those people that are mobilising themselves are representing their own interests. During my time, when they said I should allow a woman to go for the House of Reps seat,because Lagos has 24 reps, but no woman, and if they allow women to file out, none of them will win the primary.
Asiwaju told me; “Ayo, can we work together to allow a woman from your side? I said no problem. But unfortunately, the area was not ready for a woman to be rep’.
“Yes, there have been a series of speculations that the Vice President plans to run for President, but he has not declared his intention in public.”
“&In the next 3 months, we will know whether prof is contesting or not, but as of today, Professor Osinbajo is only doing his job as Vice President of the federal republic of Nigeria. He has no political ambition.”
Does that mean all is well between Asiwaju and VP?”Oh all is well between VP Osinbajo and Asiwaju.
