Shortly after the APC presidential primaries in June, Tinubu paid Osinbajo a visit at his Aguda House residence in the Presidential Villa.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Sources in the All Progressives Congress (APC) have said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s visit on Wednesday to the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, was not for any political purpose.
Osinbajo’s position on the APC’s Muslim-Muslim ticket has been clear and has pitched him against some party stalwarts, but it is believed that his relationship with Tinubu is still cordial.
APC officials, who witnessed the meeting, said expectations in some quarters might suggest there was more to Osinbajo’s visit but they said it was only a courtesy call based on the duo’s longstanding relationship.
Citing previous meetings between the two after the presidential primaries earlier in June, they noted that Osinbajo’s latest visit to Tinubu was in response to an earlier visit from Tinubu to the Vice President after the primaries.
Shortly after the APC presidential primaries in June, Tinubu paid Osinbajo a visit at his Aguda House residence in the Presidential Villa.
They both met later at the ministerial retreat in the Presidential Villa in October indicative of the cordial relationship between them.
“The fact that both leaders contested against each other at the primaries does not make them enemies because I know the Vice President is an ‘omoluabi,'” an APC source told NAN.
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”He has high regards for BAT, who I also know to be very close to the Vice President, and this he has demonstrated at different times.
“For the avoidance of doubt, Osinbajo’s visit to Tinubu was merely in the spirit of the Christmas season.
“Besides, such a visit can be best termed as reciprocal after Tinubu paid the vice-president a similar visit in the past.”
More so, a political analyst who pleaded anonymity said it was only customary, in the spirit of Christmas, for leaders to exchange visits and nothing less.
Observers believed the meeting was a personal regard between both leaders and also showed that there was no discord between them.
They said it was only some supporters who were making a big deal out of nothing.
