From the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) came yesterday a denial that there is a crack in the presidency as believed in some quarters.
Also, the governors on the platform of the party said there was no iota of truth in the insinuation that “cabals” in the presidency had perfected plans to slam corruption charges against Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and subsequently impeach him.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, who co-chairs the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) Media and Communications Steering Committee, told journalists at the inauguration of the panel that “such talks exist in the realm of gossips and rumours.” “There is no crack. At the time they said that, the vice president went to Zimbabwe to represent this country. It was the prerogative of Mr. President to go, but he nominated Osinbajo.”
Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by his Deputy, Mr. Obafemi Hamzat, said: “Yesterday (Wednesday), the vice president presided over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) which is the highest body that determines what goes on in our country. We don’t listen to rumours, we deal with facts. The fact is that they are working together, it is just rumours.”
APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Malam Lanre Issa-Onilu, also declared that there was no rift between President Buhari and Osinbajo.
He accused the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of peddling the rumours in a bid to undermine the APC- led administration. He distanced the party’s National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, and Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State from the posters that were circulated in Lagos and other parts of the country depicting their desire to run on a joint ticket for the 2023 presidency on the platform of the party.
“We have important issues of governance to attend to than to continue to respond to fallacies. How do you determine a crack? The vice president had been sent out to represent the president at an international event, after PDP saw a crack; the vice president presided over the FEC meeting just on Wednesday. Is that part of the PDP’s crack? Let us stop this joke. We know we have challenges in this country, let us face the challenges,” Issa-Onilu said.
Source: Guardian Newspaper.
