In spite of all hues and cries, the National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu may have finally condemned the Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode to his fate, as he remains unyielding with his stance on Ambode’s second term even at this eleventh hour.
This much was gathered, Friday, from a top ranking personality in the APC who disclosed that Tinubu has no plans to endorse the candidature of Ambode for a second term.
While reacting to reports from the camp of Ambode suggesting Tinubu was set to endorse the governor, a source was quoted by pulse as saying, despite Ambode’s advances towards Tinubu to get the second term ticket on the APC platform, the strong man of Lagos politics is yet to back down from his hardline position on the controversy.
“Ambode’s camp is desperately trying to mislead Lagosians with these stories.
“The Ambode camp just rose from a meeting and agreed to publish a news story that Asiwaju is set to endorse and anoint Ambode in the early hours of Saturday morning before the primaries.
“There has been no meeting between Asiwaju and Ambode. This story is concocted and a lie from the pit of hell.
“The aim of this is to misinform the electorate in Lagos and to cause confusion. A number of similar false publications are already in the works.
“The claim of an endorsement is a total fallacy. It’s not going to happen. The governor has challenged the people of Lagos to a fight. Let him face it,” the source said.
Ambode is expected to slug it out with Mr Jide Sanwo-Olu, the Managing Director, Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, and Dr Femi Hamzat, a former Commissioner for Works, for the governorship ticket.
Vice Chairman of the APC in Lagos East Senatorial District, Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, had recently disclosed that the 57 Local Council Chairmen in the state have been asked to work towards the emergence of Sanwon-olu as the next governor of the state.
Ambode’s political future has been under threat since Tinubu’s Mandate group threw up Sanwo-Olu, to challenge the governor at the party’s primary.
Also in the race, is another strong contender, a former commissioner for works and Infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, who has the backing of an equally powerful group, the Justice Forum.
