“Some of us know that the battle line has been drawn. Osinbajo is seriously being undermined. This is a clear indication that he is a target and they would pull him down. I’m surprised that he has not come out boldly to seek the sympathy of Nigerians and speak his mind. He is sitting there quietly because he wants to prove to Nigerians that he is a man of God.”
These are the words of the Leader of the Atrewa Youth Consultative Forum, Yerima Shettima, while speaking on the sacking of some of the aides of the Vice President, Prof. Remi Osinbajo.
Like many other Nigerians, Shettima believes osinbajo has been assaulted politically, and thus want him to speak, fight back or resign.
He told newsmen: “If really they want to reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria why not look for a way of placing so many aides there doing nothing on allowances or reduce the number rather than look at the office of the Vice President.
“The issue of politics is not the matter of God, it’s about issues. Professionalism must have to come to play. I know he is a professor of law but he needs to come out and tell Nigerians what is going on. If he continues to stay quiet he will just wake up one morning and discover that he has been removed.
“The office of the Vice President has been ridiculed, so for me it’s either he’s out to fight or he resigns because if he doesn’t and can’t fight back then certainly they would remove him through any means. Nobody thought it was possible to remove the Chief Justice of the Federation but they did it easily, so how much more the Vice President that is a spare tyre to the president. The head of the judiciary was removed and they frustrated him and nothing happened.”
