Osinbajo provides backbone for Buhari’s presidency—Osinbajo support group

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s supporters are egging him on to get in the ring in 2023 to contest for the presidency.

The next presidential contest is already throwing up contestants for the APC ticket, including Osinbajo’s godfather and party leader Bola Tinubu, Ekiti Gov Kayode Fayemi, among others.

None has declared their intention, though.

The Osinbajo Grassroots Organisation (OGO), however gave reasons for pushing the law professor into the fray.

They claim he has “provided a backbone” for President Muhammadu Buhari.

Many believe Buhari runs a weak government that is soft on corruption and banditry and loud in complaining as Nigeria slides into anarchy.

But OGO, again, described the VP as a ‘neutraliser and stabilizer’.

They spoke on August 8 during the second edition of Osinbajo’s Day held in Abuja with the theme: “Run, Osinbajo run: The future beckons, in Abuja.”

At the celebration were placards screaming ‘In Osinbajo, we see a loyal leader’, ‘2023: Let Osinbajo lead’, ‘Nigerians love Osinbajo’, ‘Great Nigeria, Great Nation, Great Osinbajo’, ‘Thank you, Buhari for giving us Osinbajo’ and ‘Osinbajo: The future beckons.’

“We are appealing to Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to throw his hat into the ring and take up higher responsibility having worked diligently with the President and with great results to show,” said Funsho Ojo, the convener OGO.

Funsho earlier said in a speech entitled “Unhappy is the Land that has no heroes” Osinbajo has been adopted as their role model.

“A man we have adopted as our role model, a man we are all proud of, a man in whose hand, as young men and women, we can entrust our future,” he said.

“It is for this reason and many more that we have chosen, at personal sacrifice, to build a movement around him.

Among others present were the Director-General, Advocacy for Good Governance, Hussain Coomassie and a retired veteran journalist, Akin Makanjuola.