2023: Tinubu’s statement will meddle up APC politics – Fage

Professor Kamilu Sani Fage of Bayero University, Kano, said Tinubu’s statement should not shock anyone since he had in 2015 shown interest in becoming vice president.

Fage, however, said Tinubu’s statement would definitely “Meddle up the politics of the APC because people expect that given that Vice President Osinbajo was his (Tinubu) nominee and protégé, that he would back Osinbajo. That would have been a more sellable composition.”

He said people already had the view that Tinubu played some roles in making the Office of the Vice President redundant since 2019 and his declaration to run against the vice president will more or less confirm the views of the people.

“Most of the things the vice president should have acted upon as the deputy of the president, he was sidelined like the issue of COVID-19. They brought the Secretary to the Government of the Federation who is not an elected person and raised him and gave him all sorts of executive powers,” he said. Fage, a renowned political scientist, said Tinubu’s statement would dampen Osinbajo’s ambition and meddle up the politics of the South West “Because there are some people that are not in support of Tinubu.

“They may likely come out, but depending on how the APC set out. If the PDP goes to South East, maybe Tinubu may get a little support from his own opposition within the South West”.