President General of The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum,
AYCF, Yerima Shettima has advised Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to fight back
for being ridiculed in the Presidency or resign as Vice President to avoid
being removed.
Shettima further said the current government has undermined
Osinbajo and wondered why the Vice President has remained silent in the face of
his travail in the Presidency. The AYCF leader made this known while speaking
with the press in reaction to the sack of some aides attached to the Vice
President, which Presidency said was necessary to reduce cost.
According to Daily Post, Shettima disclosed that certain
people at the corridors of power are manipulating the system for their selfish
interest, making sure that the Vice President was put off the system so that he
can’t find his way to the presidency in 2023.
“One thing about this government is no matter how they
pretend, something is wrong. The moment they said the President and his Vice
were in good terms I knew something was wrong because there can’t be smoke
without a fire. Shettima said the Federal government should have reduced the
cost of the National Assembly instead of sacking aides of the Vice President.
In his words, “If really they want to reduce the cost of
governance in Nigeria why not look for a way of placing so many aides there
doing nothing on allowances or reduce the number rather than look at the office
of the Vice President.
“Some of us know that the battle line has been drawn.
Osinbajo is serious being undermined, this is a clear indication that he is a
target and they would pull him down. I’m surprised that he has not come out
boldly to seek the sympathy of Nigerians and speak his mind. He is sitting
there quietly because he wants to prove to Nigerians that he is a man of
God. Shettima, however, urged the vice
president to come out to explain what he is going through to Nigerians.
The issue of politics is not the matter of God, it’s about
issues, professionalism must have to come to play. I know he is a Professor of
law but he needs to come out and tell Nigerians what is going on, if he
continues to stay quiet he will just wake up one morning and discovered that he
has been removed.
“The office of the Vice President has been ridiculed so for
me its either he’s out to fight or he resigns because if he doesn’t and can’t
fight back then certainly they would remove him through any means. Nobody
thought it was possible to remove the Chief Justice of the Federation but the
did it easily, so how more the Vice President that is a spare tyre to the
president. The head of the judiciary was removed and they frustrated him and
nothing happened.”
