Osinbajo defies expectations as Nigeria's vice-president

Analysis: Buhari's deputy wants to create jobs, feed pupils and cut red tape. Is he too high-profile for his critics?

The role of vice-president is one that John Adams, the first person in the US to hold the position, called the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived".

Nigeria's Patience Jonathan captured the situation in her sarcastic response to a journalist who asked about her husband, Goodluck Jonathan, when he was vice-president. She said: He is in his office reading newspapers."

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Here you have a man of ideas, marrying that into his role as a man of action