Former president Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Adviser on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, has asserted that the failure to elect Professor Yemi Osinbajo during the last presidential election is like missing Awolowo’s second coming.
Ojudu stated this while speaking about his conviction to support former Vice president Osinbajo during the 2023 general election in Nigeria.
DAILY POST reports that Osinbajo in 2022 contested for presidential ticket under the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
But he lost the primary election to president Bola Tinubu.
However, speaking in an interview with Edmund Obilo on the ‘State Affairs’ program, Ojudu stated that not voting Osinbajo during the 2023 election is like losing Awolowo for a second time.
“I supported Osinbajo to be president. I was convinced because having seen him up close.
“The way he worked, his philosophy, his breadth of knowledge and the kind of patriotic verve in him I just think that he was the best person at that time to govern Nigeria that I have seen up close to be on the part of danger.
“Osinbajo would have been good for this country. For me, it is like losing Awolowo for a second time because he was at Awolowo’s level in terms of capacity, ability, dedication and commitment,” he said.