Team Tinubu Mad Over Buhari’s Silent Support For Osinbajo

The camp of the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has raised observations over what it at the weekend complained about the high profile political movements of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo which it claimed may mean quiet support for him from President Muhammadu Buhari.

Sources in the Tinubu camp believe that Osinbajo may be the secret weapon President Buhari mentioned in his recent television interview.

The complaint by the Tinubu camp came against the background of high-level endorsements and gesticulations by canvassers of the vice-president’s alleged 2023 presidential aspiration. The endorsements have been especially manifest in the North and recently moved downwards to the South with Delta State as its first launch pad.

The Tinubu Camp which has vowed not to raise the issue with the presidency is, however, miffed how Osinbajo’s name is being mentioned and projected everywhere for the 2023 presidential election with his boss, Buhari looking away.

“You cannot tell me that the president does not know anything about this and that his deputy is being worked up to take his office and he is ignorant? No, no,” a highly placed confidant of Tinubu’s revealed on Saturday as he alleged a silent support for Osinbajo by Buhari.

 GreenWhiteGreen GWG  reports that the Vice President’s spokesman, Laolu Akande had recently denied reports that Osinbajo had on New Year Day visited the president to seek his blessing for the 2023 presidential election.

In rebuffing the reports he said that the vice-president was fixed on delivering assignments as handed to him by the Buhari presidency.

However, the Tinubu camp remained nonplussed with what it was alleging as a secret agenda with the source saying “How can your subordinate be moving about like that as if you have anointed him for your office? You send him here and there to expose him?”

“If you have a wife and she is misbehaving who am I to complain when you the husband is indifferent? So, we will keep on watching

Asked if Osinbajo and Tinubu have met over the vice-president’s reported aspiration, the source who ordinarily should know replied curtly, “I don’t know, but you should know.”

The worries of the Tinubu Camp it was learnt have been worsened by the dithering procrastination of the party to hold a national convention to elect a new set of national officers.

Meanwhile,  GreenWhiteGreen GWG has learnt that efforts to elect a new national executive may have been stalemated following the inability of the contending forces in the party to reach a compromise especially on the office of the national chairman where as many as seven serious contenders had emerged.

It was gathered at the weekend that the presidency may have started reviewing its options for a national chairman of the party following the deadlock that has stymied the convocation. One of the principal factors is the claim that Tinubu’s hand was all over the nominees including Senator Tanko Al-Makura who had been considered the favourite of the presidency.

One source revealed at the weekend that three names outside the declared aspirants including a former minister in the Buhari regime who was also a principal officer in the House of Representatives from the North Central.

While some in the Tinubu camp wrongly or rightly claim that Osinbajo is the president’s secret weapon, other sources and associates at the weekend rebuffed the claim. A source in one of the rival presidential camps told  GreenWhiteGreen GWG that Osinbajo remains a taboo among close confidants of the president who have his ears.

Others mentioned as possible favourites of the president are Rotimi Amaechi, Kayode Fayemi and Babantude Fashola and the minister of state for education, Emeka Nwajiuba.

Apparently not having gotten the endorsement of President Buhari at their meeting last week, the Tinubu team it was further gathered is determined to press for a level playing field as its minimum demand.

However, the Tinubu camp has vowed not to complain to Buhari over the issue of the alleged support for Osinbajo with associates of the APC national leader asking for a level playing ground for all aspirants in the contest for the APC presidential ticket.

“If they continue like this we are not tied to the apron strings of the party, at least Asiwaju has a political history,” the source said as he inferred noting that the kind of political marriage that brought up the APC was possible should Atiku Abubakar be also pushed out of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

An Atiku associate dismissed the claim yesterday.

“We know where the talk is coming from. Yes, Asiwaju has strong pillars in the APC and it is easy to assert that he could join with Waziri (Atiku) to form an unbeatable alliance, but Atiku does not have that perspective. Atiku is abiding in PDP whatever is the case,” the Atiku associate said in rebuffing insinuations of an Atiku – Tinubu alliance.

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