Acting President Yemi Osinbajo at Niger state funding summit. Twitter
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is determined to emerge as President Muhammadu Buhari’s working mate in 2019.
In an assertion signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Emmanuel Agbo, on Wednesday, the party described Osinbajo’s go to to Benue State as an act of desperation that casts doubt publicly on his professed Christian religion and a try and “swindle votes” forward of the 2019 common elections.
The PDP mentioned the Vice President go to to Benue was a political try at window dressing the already broken picture of the Buhari’s administration and an insult to the grieving folks of Benue State.
The party mentioned: “Osinbajo didn't go to the folks of Benue when two clergymen and 17 parishioners had been killed, neither does he agree that the herdsmen who killed 73 Christians within the state are terrorists.
“It is pathetic that whereas Osinbajo speaks loudly towards former President Goodluck Jonathan and the opposition, he remained unvoiced till our folks had been made refugees in their very own land.
“Since the information of the cabal’s plan to select a new working mate for Buhari forward of the 2019 presidential election turned public information, Osinbajo has since proven a stage of desperation that casts doubt publicly on his professed Christian religion.
“Osinbajo’s promise throughout his go to to the IDP camps within the state that President Buhari has authorised a whole of N10bn for the rehabilitation of communities affected by violent assaults in components of the nation, additional reveals that the Federal Government is completely disconnected from the folks.
“This shameless act affirms that Buhari’s administration fail to realise that money cannot replace or buy back the lives lost to the reckless slaughter of innocent citizens by Fulani extremists.”