But he is less popular with state governors than other contenders such as Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Ekiti State governor Kayode Fayemi who also chairs the Nigeria Governors' Forum...

Earlier Nigeria's Deputy President Yemi Osinbajo had set out the country's position against the injustice of G7 countries demanding international financial institutions stop financing gas production and distribution projects...

A few days before the massacre Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a constitutional law professor had presided over a National Economic Council meeting at which the 36 state governments promised to set up inquiries into complaints of brutality by security forces around the country...

In the early 2000s vice-president Yemi Osinbajo played a pivotal role as Lagos attorney general in securing a legal victory for the state over the Olusegun Obasanjo presidency to have more autonomy over allocations to local councils...

The following day President Buhari flanked by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and Foreign Minister Geoffrey Onyeama told United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Washington should consider moving its Africa Command (Africom) from Stuttgart Germany to Africa 'closer to the theatre of operations'...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo continues to champion the Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan introduced last year to respond to coronavirus-driven disruption and promises targeted policy to guide the economy in the longer term...

As Tinubu tries to recover ground the technocratic Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a former protégé of Tinubu's like most politicians from the south-west is also a contender but may have to mend some fences in the party and with Buhari if he is to consolidate his claim...