Second Republic, who expressly warned that Osinbajo should not nurture any ambition of becoming president in 2019, should Buhari not be in position to continue.
According to him, the North will resist such attempt.
There is this argument by some keen observers of the country polity that the recent allegations of nepotism levelled against Osinbajo by one Dr. Ismaila Farouk, could be an effort to give a dog a bad name and then hang it.
Farouk in his accusation, which the Presidency rubbished as a mere smear campaign, alleged among other things that all aides of the Acting President are either Yoruba or members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
However, a detailed list of aides to Osinbajo released by the Presidency may have proved the accuser wrong as there were mixture of Muslims and Christians on the list.
Playing the Ostrich
All said, the tense atmosphere in the country at the moment, occasioned by agitation for Biafra, quit notice to Ndigbo living in the North as well as the possibility of Buhari not continuing in 2019 and the politics that seems to have ensued as a result of that, call for concerns.
The Federal Government appears to want paper over the issues without much push to execute calls for total restructuring of the country.
Will Nigeria overcome all these like it has always done in the past and continue to exist as one nation? That can only be told in a matter of time.
But until then, the possibility of the US prediction of the country’s break up happening under Buhari’s administration seems to be staring every Nigeria in the face.
