•••ALLEGE WOMEN WEARING HIJAB BEING PRIMED TO LIE AGAINST HIM
The Osinbajo For President Media Council on Tuesday, said they have uncovered a wicked plot by a mischievous group to malign the reputation of Vice President and a Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the APC, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.
The group in a statement, said that the plot has been traced to a cartel of smear campaigners, based in the United States of America.
The statement further claimed that the leader of the gang is a US based Nigerian who was formerly a Students Union President at the University of Lagos.
According to the group, the same individual is currently a lecturer at the University of Ohio in the USA. The Osinbajo For President Media Council, also alleged that the plot of the clandestine gang was to use fake audio of faceless individuals with fictitious names to cast the Vice President, who is a Christian, as a religious fanatic.
The Osinbajo’s group said the plan was to make the Vice President look like he hated and discriminated against 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, 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.
” As observed by someone who was in the same Ministry at the time Osinbajo served as Attorney-General, no such incident ever occurred and this is just a malicious and wicked attempt to sully the sterling qualities of Prof. Osinbajo because of his Presidential aspirations.” The group stated. The Group stressed l thatOsinbajo, as Attorney-General, and his Secretary, a Muslim, Alhaji Abdul Gafar Bakare had a cordial working relationship.
According to them, Gafar had testified before now that the then Lagos AG did not only encourage him to further his education even at his relatively old age, but personally sponsored his University degree programm (BSc Accounting).The group quoted Gafar as having said also that the Osinbajo, also sponsored his foreign travel then. “It would be recalled that similar smear campaigns were unleashed against President Muhammadu Buhari, especially 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, Prof Osinbajo has always demonstrated himself to be a tolerant Nigerian who believes in the 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 Judge Bola Ajibola, Former Governor Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari. Osinbajo remains a firm believer in Nigeria’s diversity and ardent proponent of Nigerian unity.” The group stated.
According to the Media Council, the essence of the statement was to alert the general public to the odious campaign strategy of Osinbajo detractors.
The group called on the public to ignore the video when its released to the public.