Prominent activist and social critic, Aisha Yesufu, has disclosed that her support for the All Progressives Congress (APC) during the 2015 general elections was motivated by her admiration for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, not former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Yesufu, a well-known supporter of Labour Party’s presidential candidate Peter Obi, made the revelation in a post on her official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday.
According to her, it took until February of 2015 to reconcile with the decision to vote for Buhari, a candidate she had earlier vowed never to support again following the 2011 post-election violence.
“The reason I voted for APC in 2015 was because of Prof. Osinbajo. It still took me up to February before I finally came to terms with voting for Gen. Buhari, the same Gen. Buhari I had vowed never to support again after the 2011 riots,” she wrote.
She expressed disappointment in the role Vice President Osinbajo ended up playing in the Buhari administration, describing him as a “toothless collaborator” despite Buhari’s well-known tendency to delegate responsibilities.
“Gen Buhari is known to never work but to delegate, yet Osinbajo became a toothless collaborator,” she added.
“A Vice President is worse than a spare tyre. It is the spare tyre left at home.”
Yesufu also took a swipe at those touting Nasir El-Rufai, the former Kaduna State governor, as a future presidential option, warning that this was how ex-President Goodluck Jonathan once paved the way for Buhari.
“I have found it interesting how some have been seeing El-Rufai as an option. That’s how GEJ canonized Buhari,” she wrote.
Yesufu has remained vocal in her advocacy for good governance and transparency in Nigeria, consistently challenging political narratives across party lines.
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