Some former Presidents of Nigeria, according to former Kano State Governor and Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Kabiru Gaya, are among those supporting the presidential ambition of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The senator refused to reveal the names of the said former presidents backing the Vice President when asked.
Addressing a press conference on Thursday in Abuja, Senator Gaya, who resumed as the Chairman of the Pro-Osinbajo umbrella body of all support groups, said the gesture towards Osinbajo speaks volume of the depth of acceptability of Osinbajo among Nigerians.
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When asked to react to some of the allegations of betrayal, nepotism levelled against the Vice President, Gaya said the campaign group will not join issues with individuals.
“What we are saying is we respect every Nigerian…our elders…that is what I said in my speech; there are even others that are supporting this Osinbajo team and some of them are even former presidents.
“So we have a lot of people supporting him and we want to make all these groups come together to come and form a formidable campaign team for Osinbajo. In the next few days he will be the candidate of the party insha Allah.”
Gaya also revealed that one of the support groups under the umbrella of The Progressive Project (TPP) has expressed the readiness to procure the N100 million worth All progressives Congress (APC) Expression of Interest and Nomination forms for Prof Yemi Osinbajo in pursuit of his presidential ambition.
