Vice President Yemi Osinbajo may have come under intense watch over the brewing face off between President Muhammadu Buhari and Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, Ripples Nigeria has gathered.

Osinbajo is caught in the cross-fire between the Presidency and acclaimed national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Tinubu, over who may have influenced his nomination as the country’s number two citizen.

He found himself in a rather awkward situation soon after Buhari’s biographer, Professor John Paden claimed in his book, “Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria”, that President Buhari chose him (Osinbajo) as a running mate in the 2015 elections in spite of strong resistance from Tinubu.

The assertion has been vehemently refuted by Tinubu’s media team, with the strongest comments coming from Secretary to Lagos State government, Tunji Bello, who described Paden’s literary exercise as full of “mischief”, while reaffirming that Osinbajo was simply a creation of Bola Tinubu. No harsh words have been spared by others, particularly Yoruba leaders and interest groups, who have rallied around Tinubu in what is now an open confrontation with the presidency.

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