The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Yemi Osinbajo, has denied claims by President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team that if his party wins the coming presidential election, he would resign and hand over to the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, after six months in office.
The vice presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress, Yemi Osinbajo, has denied claims by President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign team that if his party wins the coming presidential election, he would resign and hand over to the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, after six months in office.
Spokesperson for 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.”
“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.”
Osinbajo laughed off the allegations saying:
“I don’t know where people get their story from. 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.
Meanwhile, APC has described Fani-Kayode’s claim as “sickening and outlandish”, saying:
“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 in a
statement.
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