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2023: Fresh Suspicions Trail Team Osinbajo’s Moves
Suspicions were at the weekend shadowing the alleged 2023 presidential aspiration of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo with reports of shadowy moves by his canvassers towards a section of the famed cabal around President Muhammadu Buhari.
While Vice-president Osinbajo has come out to deny immediate plans of his aspiration for the All Progressives Congress, APC 2023 presidential ticket, his canvassers are increasingly coming out to assert their objectives boldly.
The moves by the vice-president’s perceived minders are despite continuing claims that a section of the cabal and chief personal aides of the president remain despiteful of him.
The personal aides it was gathered, are yet to forgive Osinbajo for actions taken as Acting President in 2018 including the dismissal of Lawal Daura as director-general of the Department of State Services, DSS.
GreenWhiteGreen GWG learnt that Team Osinabjo has notwithstanding, been increasingly been mending fences with the Northern establishment through some northern leaders who have been acting as emissaries for the 2023 project.
A highly influential northern politician whose wife recently left a very high position in the federal judiciary is said to be Camp Osinbajo’s liaison with the Northern establishment.
“You can see the kind of endorsements that have been coming the way of the vice-president from the North and groups visiting selected leaders to get expected endorsements,” one source privy to the development opined.
There were suggestions that the carriage of Team Osinbajo was what panicked his political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to preempt him by making his declaration of his life ambition to be president on Monday.
Suspicions As Osinbajo Canvassers Move South
Meanwhile, as Tinubu rushed to Abuja to position himself, the Osinbajo canvassers about the same time moved south for the first time with their bold incursion into Delta State, a territory that had until recently been regarded as Tinubu territory by APC activists.
The efforts of the vice-president’s canvassers was manifested by his endorsement by Rep. Francis Waive, the only APC member of the House of Representatives from Delta State. GreenWhiteGreen GWG reports that the endorsement has sent shock waves into the political landscape in Delta and Abuja given earlier permutations that Delta was Tinubu territory by proxy through the deputy president of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege.
The development in Delta according to multiple sources has sent confusion on the inclination of Omo-Agege.
Before now, the only threat to Tinubu in Delta had come from insinuations of a possible presidential bid by Rotimi Amaechi, the minister of transportation. Amaechi’s foot soldiers led by Olorogun Festus Keyamo have ceaselessly tackled the Omo-Agege tendency.
While some were quick to point to Hon. Waive’s endorsement of Osinbajo as a reflection of the shift of the Omo-Agege camp away from Tinubu, other sources and associates of the Deputy President of the Senate claimed that Waive acted on his personal capacity.
However, some in Delta State and Abuja saw the endorsement as a product of the alleged behind the scene collaboration between Abubakar Malami and Team Osinbajo. Sources affirm that Omo-Agege and Malami who are both lawyers are also said to be friends.
Suspicions Of Team Osinbajo’s Moves Towards Malami Still Unconfirmed
GreenWhiteGreen GWG has been unable to confirm insinuations of a possible working relationship between Osinbajo and the Malami group of power brokers who are said to dictate the policies and politics of the Buhari administration.
While some said it is possible with the prospect of Malami running as a Vice presidential candidate to Osinbajo, other sources watching the development ruled it out saying that Osinbajo has not been forgiven for the faux pas of firing Daura as DG DSS in 2018.
“Yes, for the best interest of the country and the party, Osinbajo would have been an unbeatable asset to the APC, but I know that within the inner circle of number one, (President Buhari) he is hated with venom,” one APC top source privy to the developments spoke yesterday.
“The question you should ask is, can he be trusted? It is a matter of trust for the president. I repeat, it is a matter of trust.”
As another source said yesterday, Osinbajo lacks political structure and the only way he can achieve it is either through Buhari or through Tinubu.
However, just like Buhari, the inner camp of the national leader of the APC is also increasingly disdainful of the vice-president with some labelling him as a betrayer. While Osinbajo has
Meanwhile, moves by his northern backers to beautify and build him up have continued with the announcement on Thursday that Osinbajo would be special guest of honour at the 8th Sir Ahmadu Bello lecture in Kano on January 28.
The gathering pundits observe would offer the Northern intelligentsia, royal fathers and other elements of the Northern establishment to have a closer perception of Osinbajo.
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