Osinbajo Affirms That Buhari's Administration Won't Dictate.

Vice presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has affirmed that the party’s presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was seeking to serve the nation and not to dictate.

He urged Nigerians to be weary of individuals speaking derogatory words about fellow human beings.

Prof. Osinbajo, who spoke at a town hall meeting with Christian and Muslim leaders in Kaduna on behalf of Buhari, said Nigerians must put religious sentiments aside and rise above the vicious circle of lies being put forward by propagandists.

He stressed that leadership was not a one man show, saying: “We have to work together and must come together, putting religious sentiments aside and rise above the vicious lies” by the propagandists.

On the rumoured agreement by Buhari to serve only one term, he said the APC presidential candidate would never sign any such agreement.

The vice presidential candidate quoted Buhari as saying: “I would like to solemnly declare that in spite of what our detractors say, I am not a religious fanatic of any sort and I have never been. In all my life, I have never supported extremism of any kind and nowhere in my record of service to our nation can this false toga which political detractors have tried so hard to put on me be substantiated.”

APC presidential candidate reiterated that he came as an individual to serve and not to dictate as a president, adding: “If given the opportunity, I nurture no ambition to Islamise the country, either is my running-mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo nursing any ulterior agenda to Christianise the country…