*Adds that Prof. Osinbajo understands and connects to people easily
President Muhammadu Buhari has once again heaped praises on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for his competence and his ability to solve complex problems.
President Buhari noted that Prof. Osinbajo connects and resonates with people. He said he understands people and have placed them at the priority list of governance.
The President spoke on Tuesday when the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo led a delegation of FCT community and others to greet President Muhammadu Buhari to commemorate the Eid-El-Fitr celebration at the State House, Abuja.
“After the Vice President’s speech, I don’t have much to say. In a way, you must understand his difficult position. As constitutionally the number two man of the country, he is always being seen but not being heard. On special opportunities, he appeals to you because he knows what he is going through, very quietly and very competently.
“I am very pleased because he is such a competent lawyer, and he has some experience. So I am exploiting his very fervent constituency through him to see us through in the many complex (things) in the Presidency.
Prof. Osinbajo noted that Ramadan is a period that many people behave themselves, noting that, this good behaviour should be maintained at all time.
“As I have said once, the Ramadan period of the fast is always a very good time because first of all, all of my friends who are usually badly behaved, behave themselves much better. And I will not mention any names here today, they know themselves, and some of them are even looking at me.
“I want to pray and hope that the good behavior they maintained during the periods of the fasting will continue even for the next four years and beyond.
“Mr. President, the country as we speak today is at the threshold of greatness and you have said so yourself so many times. Any situation where something great and important is about to happen usually would have very many negative and opposing forces who would want to keep that from happening.
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“And I believe that our country is at the threshold of the breakthrough that we have been praying and hoping for all these many years. This is why many challenges are showing up; challenges around security, challenges around division, people who are stoking up embers of religious and ethnic divisions.
“But this gathering is one of those gatherings that those of us in leadership; political leadership and religious leadership, demonstrate to our people that this country is a county of one people, the Nigerian people.
“We may be different in our faith, different in our ethnicities, but we are one people, the Nigerian people are one and united.
“For that reason, I would want to commend all of our leaders who are here, for making this a tradition that we would come together as Christians and Muslims, and people of different faiths, for this particular event. Not only to demonstrate our respect and pay our homage to Mr. President on this occasion, but to demonstrate to our people that this country is a united country and that those who want to stoke up embers of division would not be allowed to do so.
“So I really want to urge all of our leaders who are here, religious and political leaders that we must not allow the rhetoric of division to supersede the rhetoric of unity. We must also speak up; we must speak in ways that unite our country. We cannot keep quiet because their so many negative statements are made everyday and sometimes we ignore those statements and say these are people who have no understandings.
“But if we allow these negative statements to continue, then they will define our country and define the situation of our country.
“As I said, our country is destined for greatness and I know that the Almighty God will lead us to that greatness. And as we go day by day towards that greatness, those who want to hold us back, the Lord God Almighty will prevent them from doing so.
“I want to again commend you Mr. President and thank you very much for the good leadership you have shown in the past few years. And in this second term, I pray that the Almighty God will help you, strengthen you. “The Almighty God will give you the grace and the understanding and will empower you even more to be able to do the things that you desire in your heart to do to make this country truly great.”
