"How Buhari Stopped My Plan of Asking EFCC to Probe Fraud Allegations Against Me", Osinbajo

• Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria's vice president, said he was once very angry over a serious fraud allegation made against him
• Osinbajo said at the time he was planning to take up the case by reporting it to the EFCC but that President Muhammadu Buhari stopped him
• The vice president said Buhari told him then not to be worked up by allegations and rumours from unserious persons

Abuja - Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has stated once he tried to take up an allegation against him with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

But Osinbajo said on Friday, December 23, that when he took the case to President Muhammadu, the president asked him not to worry himself over baseless allegations fabricated by mischief-makers, The Cable reports.

The vice president noted that the president was able to calm him down because the allegations infuriated him.

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Osinbajo recalled:

“One day, I went to him because there were some allegations that were made against me,” he said.

“And I was so angry; so I went to him to show him the letter I had written to the EFCC to investigate.

“He looked at it and looked at me because he calls me VP or professor depending on his mood.

“This time he said, ‘VP, why do you worry yourself about all these people? These people just make all sorts of allegations, they make all sorts of stories up..."

APC primary: 7 crucial reasons Osinbajo lost stiffly contested election

Some underlying factors contributed to the defeat of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the just-concluded presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) conducted at Eagle Square, Abuja, on Wednesday, June 8.

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In this piece, Legit.ng put together some of the circumstances that informed Osinbajo's loss at the primary.

Lack of northern influence

Although he is Nigeria's second citizen and as such very powerful, Osinbajo, truth be told, does not wield much influence in the north compared to some APC presidential aspirants chief among whom is Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Antecedents in Nigerian politics show that whoever secures the backing of the region is closest to winning elections at the national level.

Source: Legit.ng