Osinbajo will be president in 2023 - Yoruba group claims, protests

Osinbajo will be president in 2023 - Yoruba group claims, protests

- The Southwest Youth Congress (SYC) believes that the current alleged travails being suffered by Nigeria's vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, is because of 2023 elections

- SYC says it has endorsed Osinbajo to take over from President Muhammadu Buhari in the next election

- The organisation insists that no amount of lies against the vice president would frustrate him ahead of 2023

The Southwest Youth Congress (SYC), Ondo state branch, has endorsed Yemi Osinbajo, the country's number two citizen, as the next president after Muhammadu Buhari.

The group, according to The Cable, boasted that no amount of lies against Osinbajo would stop him from becoming the president in 2023.

The group stated this on Thursday, September 26, during a procession for Osinbajo’s candidacy in Akure, the capital of Ondo state.

The report quoted Bamise Akintomide, leader of the group, as claiming that a desperate cabal was working to ensure Osinbajo did not make it as the candidate from the southwest.

“While we are confident that the perceived threat against Professor Osinbajo bears the imprints of a desperate cabal’s wicked strategy for relevance, sadly they have also enlisted the support of agents of calumny of an equally desperate opposition.

“It is our considered opinion that such a campaign of calumny against a decent character like the vice president will not hold water in the eyes of right-thinking Nigerians," the group said.

It insists that the accusation against Osinbajo that he misused N90 billion campaign fund is orchestrated and targeted at dissuading the vice president from considering the idea of running for the presidency in 2023.

“While Mr Vice President has not told anyone that he will be running for office in 2023, the SYC will like to emphasise that the leadership shown by Professor Osinbajo over the period he has worked alongside President Muhammadu Buhari to pilot the affairs of this country has proven his capacity for effective and result-driven governance, and it is our hope and desire that come 2023 he is on the ballot to run for the highest office in the land," the group added.

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The group described Osinbajo as immensely qualified and therefore has the support of its members and all well-meaning Nigerians.

“It’s true that there is no amount of gimmicks or lies that can stop Professor Osinbajo from becoming Nigeria’s president if God so wills," the SYC said.

Legit.ng earlier reported that governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) dismissed what they called rumour that President Buhari and Osinbajo had an altercation.

The governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said that the vice president presided over a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday, September 25.

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