A social-political group, The Progressive League (TPL) has described the
subtle attempt to link the name of Vice President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, SAN to corruption as an
exercise in futility. This was contained in a statement signed by the
National Secretary of the group, Dr. Oyedokun Alli.
According to the group, the fabricated lies and coordinated media
onslaught against the person and office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo
in recent weeks is highly unfortunate, disgraceful, and condemnable.
It is embarrassing enough when leading National newspapers are tendering
apology on outright lies published without due diligence against the
person and the office of the vice president.
More so, the new attempt to use credibility-deficient blogsites to
continue to spread lies against Prof. Osinbajo will also fail like the
traditional newspapers did in the recent past. Attempts to link the
incorruptible vice president to imagined and perceived corrupt practices
by the bloggers is very amateurish and will further discredit whatever
little credibility remains for such blog sites.
According to Dr. Oyedokun; “at a time when all hands must be on deck to
create enabling environment for citizens to thrive in this Covid-19 era,
political jobbers have now made it their past time to be planting false
information against one of the leading lights of the current
administration.
“They keep waging a war against an imaginary enemy over their 2023
presidential ambition. It is highly condemnable trying to destroy a man
because they see him as a threat to their inordinate ambition.
In his words; “Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s incorruptibility can be traced to
his uprightness way back in his university days as a don, and then as
Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Lagos State and now as
the vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
“His loyalty is uncommon, his commitment great, and his effort against
corruption is well documented. So how on earth will anybody be trying so
hard to soil Osinbajo’s name? He asked rhetorically.
The group, therefore, warned that any further attempt to soil the VP’s
incorruptible records will be resisted and those behind the dastard act
exposed to public ridicule.