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Verbatim: Tinubu on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo

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Bola Ahmed Tinubu

“Osinbajo was the best decision I ever made in my political career, the biggest weapon in my political armoury’…

“The capability and firmness of Osinbajo in my time of travail made me to triumph against every plan by my detractors to destroy my image and career.”…

“Osinbajo brought his knowledge of constitutional law and stood by me even at the time when some of my commissioners were planning to resign from the cabinet. He indulged my politics and allowed it to flourish in the face of detractors,”…

“Osinbajo encouraged me to create 37 Local Council Development Areas with his astounding knowledge of constitutional law. I could challenge the Federal Government because of the capability of the professor of law,”…

–Tinubu Tinubu said these at the launching of a book, “Contemporary issues in Nigerian constitutional law,” a series of essays compiled in honour of Osinbajo in 2012

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