The Office of the Vice President has dismissed speculations that Yemi Osinbajo has declared his interest to contest the 2023 presidential election.
This was announced in a press release signed by the Vice President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Laolu Akande.
The statement demanded an end to such machinations, maintaining that Vice President Osinbajo was concentrating on resolving the nation’s pressing issues.
The statement read:
The attention of the Office of the Vice President has been drawn to a website:supportosinbajo.ng that is calling on Nigerians to join a volunteer group mobilising support for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, ahead of the 2023 presidential election.
Details of this website and the solicitation of the group are currently trending on WhatsApp with a suggestion that Prof. Osinbajo has ‘quietly’ declared in  terest in the 2023 election.
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The Office of the Vice President is not in any way connected to this website or the group behind it and considers such an enterprise an unnecessary distraction. Prof. Osinbajo has not declared any interest whatsoever in the 2023 election, but he is rather focused on working in his capacity as Vice President in the current administration to address all the compelling issues in the country and concerns of Nigerians, including finding effective and lasting solutions to the security challenges.
Therefore, we ask that people desist from such unhelpful permutations while we all deal together with the challenges confronting us as Nigerians, and resolve them for the benefit of our people, peace and prosperity in the land.
With the general elections still about two years away, the race for the presidency is getting hotter by the day as top names in the Nigerian political space are already showing interest in the position.
The election, in the meantime, appears threatened, according to Nigerians who made their opinions known on microblogging platform, Twitter.
They claimed that the current security situation and agitations in various parts of the country are pointers to what may happen in 2023.
