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The Osinbajo Support Movement (OSM) has alleged that the Tinubu campaign team sponsored the blasphemous poster campaign against Professor Yemi Osinbajo, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) during the Easter period.
Recall that posters carrying Osinbajoโs picture with the inscription โthe Judas who betrayed his master,โ littered walls and street light poles in parts of the FCT around the Easter period, raising blasphemous dust against the sponsors and brains behind the posters.
A statement sent to newsmen by Adejuwon Babatunde, director of media and publicity of the OSM, claimed that telephone chats and call logs of a suspect arrested by security agencies indicate that the Tinubu campaign team was responsible for the posting of blasphemous posters.
The statement noted that though the prime suspect, Mike Oluwole, a 52-year-old Abuja-based graphics designer from Osun state, denied working for the Tinubu campaign team, records of his phone chats with a member of the team, contradicted his statement to the police.
According to security agents quoted in the statement, Oluwole denied working with anyone and attributed his actions to frustration.
But records of his phone chats with one Alhaji Aminu Suleiman and one Tosin Adeyanju from the Tinubu media group, dated Thursday, March 24, and Tuesday, April 12 revealed the involvement of the campaign team in the despicable act.
The OSM stated: โThe exchanges between Mr. Oluwole and the other persons contradict his claims that he wasnโt working for anyone including Tinubu supporters. โThe action by Tinubuโs supporters has exposed the desperation of the Vice Presidentโs political opponents and the apprehension in their camp over Osinbajoโs increasing popularity and wide acceptability by Nigerians.
โWe urge the VP not to be distracted as the race for the 2023 elections intensifies. Nigerians however need to be vigilant and beware of the antics of those who do not mean well for our country, and who are deploying desperate strategies in an abortive attempt to revive a failing campaign.โ Just as the Osinbajo media council noted earlier in the week through a statement, detractors will be unrelenting in their promotion of campaigns of calumny against the VP, but his admirers must remain resolute and firm to emerge victorious at the end of the day.
