My job is a very dificult one - Osibanjo

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that his job as the nation’s Vice-President is a very difficult one.


He said the job of the President or Vice-President was so difficult that one could not do it for a lifetime.

According to a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr. Laolu Akande, the Osinbajo spoke while answering questions from pupils of the LEA Government Primary School, Life Camp, Abuja as part of activities to mark the 2018 International Book and Copyright Day on Monday.

Akande made the transcript of the question and answer segment of the event available to journalists on Tuesday.


When a pupil asked how Osinbajo creates time for his wife and children despite his tight schedule, the Vice-President said, “We live in Aguda House, where we see each other practically all the time.

“But I must say that it is very difficult because I travel a lot to different parts of the country, and so, I am not usually at home, I am not usually in Abuja.

When asked what his duties were as the Vice-President, Osinbajo said he assisted the President in carrying out his big responsibilities.

Osinbajo said that he was sometimes naughty when he was a child.

This, he said, earned him punishment from his mother.

He also recalled the process that led to his emergence as the Vice-President.

“My party, which is the All Progressives Congress, nominated the President, President Muhammadu Buhari, as the presidential candidate in 2014, and the President, in consultation with the party, then decided to appoint me as a running mate.  So, I was appointed as the running mate.

“Now, the running mate means if the party wins, I become the Vice-President.

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