Yemi Osinbajo

Led by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo officials set out the country's predicament to Lagarde: a crashing oil price had combined with five years of rampant state theft under ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's government to cause a chronic shortage of foreign exchange...

It is led by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who benefits from the rare combination of an effective independent role and a good relationship with the president...

Since June he and his highly effective Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo have taken extensive soundings about how to make institutions and officials work better...

Described by a bank economist as tackling economic woes with one arm behind his back Emefiele will get some relief thanks to the new economic team under the leadership of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...

Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was there as were Chinese Ambassador Bian Jianqiang Three Gorges President Wang Lin and Jean-Louis Borloo a minister under French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

Already Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo a former Finance Commissioner in Lagos State is taking the lead on economic matters and is seen as one of the competent technocrats in the government so far...

Eventually Buhari settled for Yemi Osinbajo a professor of law and Pentecostal pastor who is seen as Tinubu's candidate (AC Vol 55 No 25 Political storm warning)...

Other influential economic thinkers on the APC side include Vice-President-elect Yemi Osinbajo a former Justice Commissioner and Attorney General in Lagos State (AC Vol 56 No 4 Policing the vote); Professor Adedoyin ('Doyin') Salami of Lagos Business School who has also served on the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monetary Policy Committee; Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai the Kaduna State Governor-elect and former Minister for Abuja and Director of Bureau for Public Enterprises has strong pro-market views on accelerating growth (AC Vol 56 No 7 A moment of truth for the General)...

The APC is a national opposition party that combines Buhari's personal following in the north with the organised activists in the south-west who back his running mate Yemi Osinbajo a respected technocrat (AC Vol 55 No 25 Political storm warning)...

Tinubu suggested three names to Buhari: himself the popular Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola and Professor Yemi Osinbajo former Attorney General for Lagos...