The Osinbajo for President Media Council says it has uncovered another fraudulent plan by a lecturer at the University of Ohio in the United States to malign the reputation of Yemi Osinbajo, Vice President of Nigeria and a presidential aspirant on the platform of the APC.
The plan is to use fake audio of faceless individuals with fictitious names to cast the Vice President, who is a Christian, as a religious fanatic, who discriminated against the staff of other faith while he was Attorney-General & Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State during the tenure of former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In the fake video, according to the Council, a woman is seen crying and making frantic allegations that she was discriminated against by the then Attorney-General because she was not allowed to wear the Muslim head cover for women, otherwise known as the hijab, to work.
However, someone who was in the same Ministry at the time Osinbajo served as Attorney-General, said no such incident ever occurred and described it as just a malicious attempt to sully the sterling qualities of Osinbajo because of his presidential aspirations.
The Media Council stated that as the Attorney-General, Osinbajo’s Secretary, a Muslim, Abdul Gafar Bakare had testified before now that the then Lagos AG ” encouraged him to further his BSc Accounting Program even at a relatively old age, in addition to sponsoring his foreign travel then.
The council recalled that similar smear campaigns were unleashed against President Muhammadu Buhari during the 2014-15 Presidential campaigns when it was alleged that he was virulently anti-Christian. The attempt however met with failure.
“Even though a Christian Pastor, Osinbajo has always demonstrated himself to be a tolerant Nigerian who believes in inter-faith harmony and Freedom of Worship as enshrined in the Nigerian 1999 Constitution as amended”.
During his career as a university teacher, he taught Moslems and Christians alike in a convivial atmosphere.
He also had excellent working and private relationships with Muslim bosses over the decades, including Justice Bola Ajibola, Former Governor Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Council says Osinbajo remains a firm believer in Nigeria’s diversity and an ardent proponent of Nigerian unity.
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