Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo has taken a subtle swipe at his fiercest opponent at the APC presidential Primaries, Bola Tinubu.
Osinbajo told delegates at the primaries that the circumstances surrounding Nigeria cannot afford to have someone to learn on the job, a subtle jive at Tinubu who has got more people stepping down for him at the primaries.
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Political pundits have long said that the race is between the vice president and Tinubu whom Osinbajo served under as Attorney General of Lagos State.
Tinubu has had earlier told delegates at the primaries to vote for him without expatiating on his plans for Nigeria.
Osinbajo told delegates not to make the mistake of voting for someone they do not believe in, saying that Nigeria has the potential to lift 100 million people out of poverty in the next decade.
Osinbajo asked the delegates to be the answer to their own prayers by voting right.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Xpress has reported that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has declared that the country could not afford to witness and manage another civil war should that happen.
He thus rallied Nigerians to put the brakes on the increasing violence that has pushed the country to the edge of the precipice.
The vice president also urged the elite to speak out against forces of division in order to preserve the unity of the country.
Osinbajo, at a meeting, on Tuesday night, in Abuja, with All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders from the South-East, said whether or not the country would experience another civil war, after that of 1967-1970 that claimed over two million lives, would depend on the actions and inactions of the political elite.
Vice President Osinbajo, in a statement by his media aide, Mr. Laolu Akande said, “We cannot afford a war in this country…it is the political elite that will determine what will take place. If we keep quiet, if we say nothing and hope that things will just normalise, we may be wrong.
