Osinbajo to Tinubu: It’s insulting, provocative to say you have forgiven me

The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has said it amounted to an insult for his political godfather and presidential candidate of their party, All Progressives Congress, for the 2023 polls, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to say he has forgiven him.

The Eagle Online recalls that Osinbajo stood against the former Lagos State Governor for the presidential ticket of the APC.

While Tinubu came top in the primaries, Osinbajo, who served as his Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice while he was Governor for eight years between 1999 and 2007, came a distant third.

Tinubu had on Monday in Kano told an audience that included clerics, that he had forgive Osinbajo for running against him, adding that it was part of what the Quran and Bible preached.

Reacting to the position of the National Leader of the APC, an Osinbajo Support Group, Osinbajo Support Movement, said the statement credited to the National Leader of the APC amounted to an insult.

The OSM said while there is room for political realignment, any talk of forgiveness between the Vice President and Asiwaju Tinubu is both an insult and a provocation that it will not take lying low.