Nigeria Presidency: UK, US Express Full Confidence in Yemi Osinbajo

The United States and United Kingdom has expressed confidence of Acting President Yemi Osinbajo to carry on from where President Muhammadu Buhari stopped in terms of the anti corruption war and the revival of the country’s economy.

Spokesman for the US Embassy in Nigeria, Russell Brooks, said President Donald Trump’s administration believed in Buhari and Osinbajo.

“We are very much in favour of President (Muhammadu) Buhari’s campaign against corruption. We also believe that Acting President (Yemi) Osinbajo is strongly committed to this agenda and will continue to pursue it while President Buhari is out of the country.”

The spokesman for the UK High Commission in Nigeria, Joseph Abuku, corroborated this view.

He stated that while the British Government could not comment on whether any crisis resulting from Buhari’s protracted ill-health would lead Nigeria into political instability, he said the UK had confidence in the President and his deputy.

“The Vice President is acting President in President (Muhammadu) Buhari’s absence. The United Kingdom has full confidence in both he (Osinbajo) and President Buhari. Questions on President Buhari’s health should be directed to his office,” Abuku said.