The controversy over the emergence of Yemi Osinbajo as Nigeria’s Vice-President cropped up again Wednesday night when he declared that he was recommended for the position by ‘someone’, who he however, declined to name.
The politics of his being picked as running mate to President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 Presidential Election has been reverberating in the polity for some time.
A portion of the recently-launched biography by American Professor John Paden titled: ‘Muhammadu Buhari: Challenges of Leadership’ claimed that Osinbajo emerged as Vice President despite pressure against it by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
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