The former Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande, has said that there is no reason to this that ex-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, has quit politics.
Akande, who served with Osinbajo in President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria.
He said there was no reason for anyone to assume Osinbajo has left politics or has resigned from the All Progressives Congress.
Osinbajo has not been active on the political space since he left office in 2023 ,fuelling speculations that he may have dumped the APC and politics.
The former Vice President contested the APC primary in 2022, but failed to clinch the party’s ticket, losing to eventual winner of the 2023 presidential election, President Bola Tinubu.
Osinbajo served as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, from 1999 to 2007, under Tinubu as governor.
Some political watchers have linked Osinbajo’s retreat from political activities to his loss in the APC primary, while others believe he is devoting less time to politics following his recent appointment as Global Advisor for the Global Energy Alliance For People Planet.
Asked by NAN to comment on his former principal’s political life, Akande said he would not get the former VP involved in his own commentary.
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He said Osinbajo never told him he had left politics and that he was still a member of APC to the best of his knowledge.
Akande also said Osinbajo would attend any APC gathering, requiring his presence.
He said: “I don’t want to get the man (Osinbajo) involved in my own commentary, but there is no reason to think that he is no longer in the APC.
“He is still a member of APC.
“If he gets an invitation to the caucus, you know, he will be there.”
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