Rating Osinbajo Above Buhari is 'Mischievous' - Presidency Blasts Mischief Makers

Babafemi Ojodu during his swearing-in by Buhari

hehehehe......... Comparing Yemi Osinbajo and President Buhari, and concluding that the vice president is doing better as he acts on behalf of the president who travelled on a medical leave, is mischievous, the presidency has said.

While speaking on Monday in Abuja, the presidential special adviser on political matters, Babafemi Ojudu, condemned the assessment of some Nigerians who had concluded that Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is doing better as he acts on behalf of President Muhammadu Buhari who has been away in London for over a month.

 

According to Premium Times, the presidency said that the comparison of Osinbajo and President Buhari, is mischievous, and was done by “mischief makers” whose intention is to cause disharmony in the presidency.

 

As acting president, Osinbajo has amongst other things, supervised the implementation of a new foreign exchange policy that has managed to strengthen a rapidly sliding naira.

 

The government has also announced a reduction in attacks on oil and gas infrastructure in recent weeks, cuts that follow Osinbajo’s tour of the Niger Delta and talks with community leaders.

 

Many Nigerians view those decisions as swift and firm, and have compared them with President Buhari’s often unhurried response to needling national problems.

 

Ojodu who spoke with journalists on the matter, said; “These are mischief makers, those who do not wish this country well, who are always promoting crisis, who will not allow the people to benefit from this democracy. They are the ones promoting this kind‎ of divisive tendencies.

“There is nothing that has been done since the vice president started acting that is not something that started far back in the past. A good example is the Niger Delta initiative.

“The President called the Vice-President and said ‘I am giving you the mandate, go into the Niger Delta and meet with everyone who is a stakeholder, all the communities, talk to the militants and make sure you solve this problem for the benefits of Nigerians.

“We are losing 1.2 million barrels of oil per day, all the gas pipelines powering the turbines are being blown up. And the President has said unless and until we resolve this problem we will not get out of recession.

“The VP took up the mandate and went to the Niger Delta, it is the initiative of Mr. President not that of the Vice-President.”

 

On the foreign exchange policy, Ojudu said claims of superior leadership capacity in favour of Mr. Osinbajo are touted by “The same people who said we never had economic team, no policy, nothing.

“It is now that the policies we are implementing are maturing and they are seeing the result. It is not a question of one person being better than the other person,” he said.