2023: APC chieftain attacks Osinbajo, calls him treacherous

An APC stalwart Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has described Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo’s declaration for the 2023 presidential race as immoral and unacceptable.

Eze said in a statement it “is a clear tale of treachery perpetrated against Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor, a man whose political career is built upon demanding unctuous loyalty from his allies and who now feels wounded over the shabby betrayal of a Senior Advocate, who rode to power through his large wings of political magnanimity.”

He described the V.P reasons for his declaration as “flimsy and watery reasons”, adding such declaration smacks of a very perceptible tincture of political infidelity against his all-time benefactor, Tinubu, who has nurtured a lifelong aspiration for the presidency.

He said the southwest zone where Tinubu and Osinbajo come from has been at the centre since 1999 producing a president ad three Speakers.

“With this development, considering the fact that South East region has not since the inception of the 4th Republic occupied the seat of the President or Vice President of this country and considering that the South-South region has only through Dr. Jonathan Goodluck occupied the exalted office for only five years, it will be immoral and unacceptable that Osinbajo or any other aspirant from the South West would be contemplating of getting the party’s flag for the Presidency against the southeast and south-south regions of this country in 2023,” he said.

Eze also reminded Osinbajo that he would have also occupied the post of Vice President from the same South West for eight years come 2023.

According to him, for these reasons and many others, Osinbajo should withdraw his interest as a matter of urgency and save Nigeria the embarrassment his unlikely emergence would cause the country.