Osinbajo hosts Tinubu in Aso Rock [PHOTOS]

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, met at the presidential villa in Abuja today October 29, 2021.

The meeting, which would be the first public meeting of the politicians in many months, is holding weeks after the ex-Lagos governor returned from London, United Kingdom, where he had undergone knee surgery.

With the rising clamour for a Southern President in 2023, there have been reports that Tinubu and Osinbajo might be individually interested in the presidency seat though both men have yet to declare any intention to contest the exalted office in 2023.

There had also been insinuations that both men are not on talking terms but Babafemi Ojudu, Special Adviser on Political Matters to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), in a recent statement had said attempts to cause conflict between Tinubu and Osinbajo would fail.

In the statement, Ojudu, who works in the Office of the Vice-President, had said Osinbajo and Tinubu are members of the ruling party and both men welcome politics without bitterness and divisiveness.

He had also inferred that there is no conflict of political interests between the two politicians.

“It is incumbent on me to state emphatically that neither the Vice President nor his office is aware of this or endorse this kind of a divisive engagement and news reports. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo are members of same party. Osinbajo regards Tinubu as a respected leader of a political family to which he belongs and will therefore not for any reason endorse an endeavour that seeks to pitch them against each other.

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