VP Osinbajo, Like Tinubu, Informs Buhari Of His Presidential Bid In 2023

VP Osinbajo, Like Tinubu, Informs Buhari Of His Presidential Bid In 2023

VP Osinbajo, like Tinubu, has notified Buhari of his desire to run for president in 2023.

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, has told his boss, President Muhammadu Buhari, of his decision to run for the country’s top political position in the 2023 election.

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Daily Trust got reports that Vice President Osinbajo informed President Buhari of his intention to succeed him in 2023, and that the development has not pitted Osinbajo against his godfather, Bola Tinubu, who had declared his intention to lead Nigeria.

Touchaheart gathered reports that there are also reports that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and the Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, will run for the presidency, while the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, has stated that he will soon enter the race.

Similarly, Senate Chief Whip Orji Uzo Kalu and Senator Rochas Okorocha have both expressed their intention in running for president on the APC platform, amid reports that some contenders from the North will shortly enter the race.

“Certainly, VP Osinbajo has told the president that he wants to succeed him,” one of our sources said.

“The vice president had first consulted some prominent Nigerians who encouraged him to vie for the presidency and they also encouraged him to tell the president himself.

“They told him not to allow a third party to tell the president so that the ambition will not be misconstrued,” he said.

Another source told the Daily Trust that when Osinbajo told President Buhari about the story, he was unsurprised.

“Buhari smiled in his usual characteristic manner…he listened to the VP carefully and while responding, he gave him the green light and wished him well without giving him any commitment or assurance of supporting him ahead of other contenders.

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“He blessed the intention just the way he blessed Tinubu when he visited him in the Villa and unveiled his plan to vie for the presidency.

“And I think the president is being careful. Remember what he said while granting an interview to a national television.”

Despite the fact that Osinbajo, a lawyer turned politician, has yet to proclaim his desire to run for president in 2023, a slew of support groups and individuals have sprouted up to cheer him on.

The organizations have been traveling across the country, financing advertisements in print and broadcast media urging the vice president to run for president.

Another source, according to the report, said recent happenings indicated that Osinbajo will “Definitely slug it out with Tinubu and others for the APC ticket.”

He said, “The projection in certain quarters that the VP will not contest against Tinubu is now over. The two of them who are from the southwest would confront each other. They both have their support bases but Tinubu, of course, is more of a politician than Osinbajo. He has more support base across the country but that notwithstanding, the truth is that whoever the president supports would surely have an upper hand,” he said.