Deji Adeyanju, one of Nigeria’s most prominent human rights campaigners, has highlighted why President Muhammadu Buhari may not support the presidential ambitions of his Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, and the Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, in the 2023 general elections.
Some have speculated that the Vice President intends to take over the presidency after his principal’s term finishes in 2023.
A concept that was dispelled by Yemi Osinbajo, who claimed that he will declare after the APC’s National Convention.
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Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State, has notified President Buhari of his desire to compete for the highest political post in the country.
However, in response to Tinubu’s presidential ambitions, the Convener of the Concerned Nigerian Movement warned that Buhari might not back him because of his suspected corruption.
In an interview with Newsmen, Adeyanju pointed to the President’s comments, in which he stated that he would not divulge his favored choice because that person may be assassinated if he did.
He believes Tinubu is not President Buhari’s favored presidential candidate because he may financially ruin Nigeria.
“I don’t think Tinubu or Osinbajo would be Buhari’s chosen choice because I have studied him for a long time now, and I can assure you that I have been able to foresee practically all of Buhari’s moves even before he became the President,” the human rights activist stated.
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“He has done majority of the things I predicted and even exceeded my predictions. I don’t think he would support either of them, and these are my reasons.
“For Asiwaju, Tinubu is too blatantly corrupt for Buhari to support him. This is somebody with no known source of income and is richer than Lagos, Osun, and many states in the Southwest; if you give somebody like that presidential power, he would completely cripple the country financially.
“Asiwaju has an inordinate love for material things and accumulation of wealth. You can say anything against Buhari, but he is not that kind of person; Buhari is not that vein; there is still that level of decency in him.
“Buhari is not that type of person that would go and buy or accumulate properties in Lagos or Abuja in hundreds, so those are features in Tinubu that could make Buhari not likely to be inclined to handing over a whole country to him.”
Adeyanju while speaking on the possibility of Osinbajo emerging as the presidential candidate of the APC said, Buhari might not forgive his vice because of some remarks he allegedly made while he was undergoing medical attention in London in 2017.
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According to Adeyanju, reports claimed that Osinbajo stated that his principal might not return to the country alive, a statement which Buhari may not consider funny and act on.
The activist further stated, “For Osinbajo, there have been a lot of reports that when the President was sick, he was among those who made a remark that he may not make it back and that he was already plotting and meeting people who would become his Vice President.
“And the Buhari we know does not forgive, neither does he forget things like that. There are insinuations that the President has not forgiven him for such remarks that he was labeled to have said. Osinbajo is not like to get the President’s nod.
“I think that this President is likely to look towards Southsouth, though I’m not in the position to know his mind, but I don’t think he would support Tinubu or Osinbajo.”
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