Osinbajo to represent Buhari at Tinubu rally – APC campaign team

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will make his first appearance at the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign train of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu this week, the party campaign team has said.

Secretary of the APC Campaign Council, James Abiodun Faleke, confirmed the development in a statement made available to newsmen on Tuesday, January 17.

The party chieftain disclosed this while reacting to reports that the APC had postponed its presidential campaign rally scheduled to hold in Kwara State on Tuesday, January 17, which eventually held in Ilorin, the state capital.

In a statement on behalf of the campaign’s local organizing committee, Saadu Salahu, said the postponement was to allow President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the campaign. But the team came back with another statement affirming that the rally would hold as planned but without the President.

Buhari had departed Nigeria on Monday for Nouakchott, Mauritania, to receive a peace award.

Because of President Buhari’s absence, Osinbajo, according to the APC team, will stand in for his principal at the Tinubu-Shettima presidential rally in Ilorin.

“I hereby confirm that the APC Presidential Campaign rally slated for 17/1/23 will hold as scheduled. Please be advised accordingly,” Faleke noted.

“President Buhari asked Osinbajo to represent him as he would not be available”, a top source at the Aso Rock Villa confirmed to PM Nigeria News.