Yemi Osinbajo and why we are where we are

Last week, the People’s Gazette published a news story about how Vice President Yemi Osinbajo obtained N200 million naira from GT Bank in 2015, soon after he was named Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate. The newspaper received copies of bank transfers showing that in 2015, the then pastor turned politician got GTBank’s Investment One fund management department to pay N200 million in three installments of N100 million, N50 million and N50 million to Mr. Osinbajo’s campaign account.

The N200 million that GTBank gave to Osinbajo violated Nigeria’s federal electoral law.

As a senior advocate of Nigeria, Osinbajo knew this. But he did not care. Doing whatever he needed to do for him and Buhari to win the 2015 presidential election was more important than obeying Nigeria’s law.

What is sad is not that Nigeria’s mainstream media ignored the Gazette story. Most Nigerian media houses have hiked their tents with different political players in this political season. What is sad is not that a senior advocate of Nigeria, a professor of law and a pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, did not blink one bit as he violated the law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. What is sad is that the people that the action of Osinbajo should have repulsed were mainly indifferent.