Osinbajo Clear Throats On Who Nominated Him As Vice President

The Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo cleverly avoided to be dragged into the raging controversy over who nominated him to be President Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate in the 2015 presidential election, Punch reports.


He said that “somebody somewhere” must nominate one before occupying a position, but refused to disclose the person that nominated him in particular.
Controversy broke out recently when the author of Buhari’s biography, “Muhammadu Buhari: The Challenges of Leadership in Nigeria”, Prof. John Paden, claimed in the book that the President chose

Osinbajo as his running mate despite the alleged opposition of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu.

The author claimed that the names of Tinubu; the then Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola; and Osinbajo were forwarded to Buhari for him to pick a running mate shortly after he emerged the party’s candidate at its convention in Lagos according to News24 .
He claimed that Buhari chose Osinbajo above others despite enormous pressure from Tinubu to do otherwise.

Tinubu’s loyalists have since faulted the account of the author , saying he (Tinubu) nominated the Vice-President.

Speaking at a dinner organised for former Niger Delta agitators at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Osinbajo made a veiled reference to the controversy when he admitted that he was nominated by “somebody somewhere.”