Why I visited Tinubu – Vice President Osinbajo
The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has revealed the reason visited the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
The vice president said he exchanged pleasantries with Asiwau Tinubu in the spirit of the season.
Recall that Osinbajo on Wednesday paid an unscheduled visit to the party’s standard bearer at his Abuja residence after six months of the special presidential convention of the APC in which Tinubu emerged as a candidate.
Osinbajo was one of the frontline aspirants who lost to Tinubu. His absence from the campaign trail since September had sent tongues wagging, despite the announcement by the presidency that President Muhammadu Buhari had asked his vice to concentrate on the business of governance.
The vice president, alongside a few of his aides, arrived at Tinubu’s Asokoro home at about 7 pm on Wednesday and went into a closed-door meeting with him.
But Laolu Akande, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s Spokesman said the meeting between the Vice President and the APC Presidential Candidate, Tinubu was to exchange pleasantries in the spirit of the season.
Akande made this clarification in a tweet he posted on his verified handle.
Reacting to inquiries and other political insinuations being linked to the meeting, Akande said “The Vice President stopped by for a friendly visit at the Abuja residence of Tinubu.
“At the meeting, the vice president and Asiwaju exchanged pleasantries in the spirit of the season.
“And in response to media inquiries whether this was a political meeting, it was not,” he said.
Wednesday’s meeting was the third between both leaders since after the APC presidential primaries in June.
The vice president, a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has also been quiet on the same faith ticket that his party opted for.
Mr Tinubu and Shettima are both Muslims.
Some Christian members of the party, particularly those from the North have openly opposed the ticket with some leaving the party.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and others adopted the candidate of the PDP, Atiku Abubakar, while others, including a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, endorsed Peter Obi of the Labour Party (LP).
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