Mutterings over a widening gulf
in the Presidency with associates of President Muhammadu Buhari and those of
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo pursuing stealthy separate political aspirations
have surfaced.
While the two camps remain united
in achieving victory for the joint Buhari/Osinbajo ticket in the 2019
presidential election, multiple sources, however, note a divergent of
aspiration thereafter.
While the aspirations of Osinbajo
as a person concerning 2023 remain sketchy, if not doubtful, there are
indications that those around him are making plans for their camp’s sustenance
in a post-Buhari era.
The plans are partly premised on
the possibility that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, may no longer
have the force of unity provided by Buhari when the president steps out of
office. Those plans, including the shopping around for alternative political
platforms, are quietly causing distress among concerned political interests.
Those projections, sources in
Abuja disclosed, helped to cause the crisis in one of the newly registered
political parties which, it was gathered, had been taken over by proxies of
those in the Osinbajo camp.
The outworking of the plans has
also rubbed negatively on some associates of the president who accuse the
Osinbajo camp of overreaching itself in its political agenda.
A close associate of the
president embedded within the camp of the cabal, as it is called, particularly
expressed displeasure with what he claimed as tendencies by associates of the
vice-president to paint the image of him being a better performer than the
president.
The associate believed to be
involved in many of the administration’s political agenda was particularly
miffed by what he claimed as projections that tend to make the vice-president
look good at the expense of the president.
A senior aide of the vice-president has,
however, dismissed the claims as baseless and inspired by enemies of the
administration determined to cause a fracture where he said none exists.
The scenario, it was alleged, was
akin to the situation in the first half of the Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Abubakar
presiden-cy, where the former vice-president was alleged to have inspired plots
towards political ascendancy.
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