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Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo

Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, is the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria said 21 Feb 2017 President Muhammadu Buhari had extended his medical leave in London for a second time. Worry about a power vacuum had been limited because Buhari transferred authority to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo before his departure for medical treatment in London.

Buhari is a Northern Muslim, and his vice president is from the south and a Christian. Since pre-Colonial slave traders were Muslim, those who were preyed upon found Christianity an attractive alternative to their oppressor's religion, so from the very beginning, religious and political conflict overlapped. With the return of democracy in 1999, Nigeria has had a complicated federal system of government with numerous rules and traditions aimed at tamping down religious and sectional conflict. For example, political parties nominate as president and vice president people from different religions and parts of the country. By recent tradition, there is an alternation between Christian and Muslim for the top job.

As a pastor and professor, many believe that Osinbajo's qualities will speak for him. Not a few people have spoken well of him. But a pastor in politics raised great suspicion from many who found blending the two professions an impossible task.

Oluyemi Oluleke Osinbajo, running mate to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari has vowed never to embezzle public funds if elected alongside his boss on 14 February 2015. Osinbajo, a pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, told his 65 thousand followers that Nigeria deserved honest men like him and Buhari who would not squander government resourses on frivolous things.

In a press statement issued in April 2015 by the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign organisation, Osinbajo said the office of the vice-president under an APC government will not be subjected to function as a "spare tyre". The APC incoming government has placed under his control, the National Economic Council (NEC). This way, while Buhari manages the administrative reforms of the government, Osinbajo would take care of the economy. I

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on 03 May 2016 accused the immediate past administration of stealing about half the country's foreign currency reserves through fraudulent arms procurement deals. According to Osinbajo the total sum lost to corruption related to the provision of security equipment to the military amounted to around $15 billion.

Osinbajo on 27 May 2016 inaugurated the National Prosecution Coordination Committee. The committee is charged with the responsibility handling high profile, public interest cases.

Vice President Osinbajo observed 21 October 2016 that all the arms of government are corrupt, but assured Nigerians that no sector of the society will be spared in the ongoing fight against corruption, which he identified as a canker-worm too endemic to be overlooked. Osinbajo said what is happening in the country, especially the high level of poverty in the system and many other menaces bedeviling the country was a direct consequences of corruption that has permeated every sector of the economy.

Acting President Yemi Osinbajo called on Nigerians 20 February 2017 to channel their protest against corruption rather than blaming the government for the current economic hardship the country is facing. According to him, one of the major problems Nigeria has suffered so far is the looting of its resources by some individuals.

Born on 08 March 1957 at Creek Hospital, Lagos, Yemi is a professor of law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He is married to Oludolapo Osinbajo (nee Soyode), grand daughter of the late sage and statesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo. They have with three children.

Yemi’s early years in primary school were spent at Corona School Lagos. Between 1969- 1975, he attended Igbobi College, Yaba where he was the winner of the State Merit Award (1971); the School Prize for English Oratory (1972); Adeoba Prize for English Oratory (1972-1975); Elias Prize for Best Performance in History (WASC, 1973); School Prize for Literature (HSC, 1975); and African Statesman Intercollegiate Best Speaker’s Prize (1974).

Thereafter, he studied for his undergraduate degree at the University of Lagos between 1975-1978 when he obtained a Second Class Upper Degree in Law. Here, he also won the Graham-Douglas Prize for Commercial Law. In 1979, he completed the mandatory one-year professional training at the Nigerian Law School whereon he was admitted to practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of Nigeria's Supreme Court. In 1980, he attended the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he obtained a Master of Laws degree.

An accomplished scholar, teacher, lawyer and administrator, Yemi is one of the nation’s leading experts on the Law of Evidence, National and Regional Corporate Commercial Laws and Public Law.

From 1979 –1980, Osinbajo participated in the one-year youth service programme as a Legal Officer with Bendel Development and Planning Authority (BDPA), in the now defunct Bendel State, Nigeria. In 1981, the University of Lagos, Nigeria, engaged Osinbajo as a Lecturer. From 1988–1992, he was appointed as an Adviser (Legal Advice and Litigation), to the then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, KBE.

In 1994, he became a Professor of Law following which he was appointed Head of Department of Public Law, University of Lagos. Between 1999 and 2007, Osinbajo was Member of Cabinet of the Lagos State Government where he served as Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice.

From 2007 – 2013 Osinbajo was once again employed as a Professor of Law, Department of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of Lagos. In 2007, Osinbajo became Senior Partner at SimmonsCooper Partners, Nigeria ( a commercial law practice).

Other past roles of Professor Osinbajo include: Staff Member, United Nations Operations in Somalia, Justice Division, UNOSOM II. Member, United Nations Secretary General’s Committee of Experts on Conduct and Discipline of UN, Peacekeeping Personnel around the globe, Member, 2006. Partner in Law Firm of Osinbajo, Kukoyi & Adokpaye.

Yemi is a member of the International Bar Association and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has served on the Nigerian Body of Benchers and the Council for Legal Education of Nigeria. He was also an independent director of CitiBank Nigeria and an ethics adviser to the board of the Africa Development Bank (ADB). He has authored several books.

While in public office as Attorney General, Lagos, Yemi is credited with undertaking far-reaching significant judicial reform in Lagos State, addressing critical areas as judges' recruitment, remuneration, training and discipline. In addition, he addressed access to justice for the poor by establishing appropriate institutions in the Office of the Public Defender (OPD) and the Citizens Mediation Centre (CMC).

Yemi founded the Orderly Society Trust (OST) involved in an Excel literacy program that aims to provide children in public primary schools with the same level of training in English as is available to their counterparts in private schools. Yemi also co-founded Justice Research Institute (Gte), a justice sector think tank as well as the Convention On Business Integrity.

He is a Senior Pastor and Motivational Speaker at the Olive Tree House of Prayer for All Nations on Banana Island, a parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He is also the chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of Redeemer's University.

As a spiritual leader, Osinbajo has organized various initiatives that work towards social justice. He organizes the Liberty Schools Project that provides free primary school education with free school lunches to poor children. This Project has three sites in poor communities in Obanikoro, Ikota and Makoko, all in Lagos. Other initiatives include free health care facilities, free legal services, social rehabilitation, skills acquisition for the very poor, a regular soup kitchen service, and free shelter for young people without accommodation. He is an Emeritus Ambassador for the Environment in Lagos.