NIGERIA HAS SUFFERED BY NOT ELECTING OSINBAJO AS PRESIDENT, ACCORDING TO FORMER KANO EMIR SANUSI LAMIDO

Sanusi Lamido

Former Kano Emir, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has regretted the fact that Nigeria's Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, is not the country's president.

According to Sanusi, Nigeria lost by not choosing Osinbajo as president.

Sanusi claimed that the failure of the democratic system to elect him as president has harmed Nigeria.

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, stated that Osinbajo was one of those in the current administration eager to discuss any issue and produce a superior case.They will now face a much more difficult assignment in their next encounter against Newcastle. The Magpies, who are third in the table, held Arsenal to a draw in the opposite fixture at the Emirates.

"And I dare say, we all agree that Nigeria is worse off for not having someone like him (Osinbajo) as president, but I do hope that he will be available to serve and to advise and to put in his best for the country and continue to do.

"So I'm sure he will, in whatever capacity he finds himself in the future, and maybe we'll still be lucky to have him lead us at some point or take some leadership role as a statesman," Sanusi said.

Osinbajo ran in the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential primaries in 2022.

Osinbajo competed against President-elect Bola Tinubu, as well as former Transportation Minister Rotimi Amaechi.

Tinubu's supporters chastised the Vice President for running while his supposed political godfather was in the race.

Among other things, Osinbajo was described as a threat for running against Tinubu in the presidential primaries.