Since the entrance of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo into the 2023 race for Nigeria’s highest seat, supporters of former Lagos governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu have hurled all manners of derogatory terms at the VP.
“This is the week that Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus Christ in the Christian calendar. Same week Osinbajo betrayed Tinubu. Same week is not a mere coincidence. May God be with Tinubu in Pilates’ Court,” a certain Tolu Babaleye said, equating Tinubu with Jesus, an assertion some Christians described as blasphemous.
Joe Igbokwe, the Special Adviser for Drainage and Water Resources to current Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo- Olu, also called Osinbajo a betrayer.
“Is this how we will pay Asiwaju for helping to lift us up? This monumental betrayal has no part 2. I am totally diminished as a mortal who understands very well the meaning and the power of loyalty,” he said.
Over the weekend, Tinubu’s camp organised a special prayer programme for their principal. Several speakers at the programme directed missives towards the Vice President, Daily Post reported.
Osinbajo, has, however, maintained calm, refusing to reply his accusers in kind, a mien that, according to observers, point to the Vice President’s capacity to focus on his job in the face of competing distractions.
Whoever will become president in 2023, they say, must exhibit this dimension of level-headedness.
Osinbajo and Tinubu and members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
