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2023: Osinbajo denies joining presidential race

Nigeria’s Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Monday denied joining the 2023 Presidential race.

Meanwhile, political analysts are tipping Osinbajo to run for the presidential seat, while his 2023 banners and posters campaigning for the apex position in Nigeria had flooded the social media.

The vice president, a lecturer and pastor, was a running mate to the then APC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.

President Buhari will complete his constitutionally permissible two terms of eight years in office in 2023.

But the Vice President, in a statement by his media aide, Laolu Akande, on has asked people to desist from such.

Akande noted that his principal is rather focused on working in his capacity as the Vice President to address the various challenges facing the country, including finding effective and lasting solutions to the security challenges and working to further boost the economy.

“The Office of the Vice President is not in any way connected with the distribution and deployment of any 2023 political posters whether on the streets or in online videos, banners and the like on social media,” the statement said.

It continued, “all these are simply needless distractions from the urgent tasks of governance needed in our country at this time.”

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