The National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, Adams Oshiomhole, has declared that the Lagos
Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, was not in any way embattled over the contention
for the governorship ticket of the party in the state.
Following a reported relationship
breakdown between Ambode and a National Leader of APC, Bola Tinubu, the latter
was said to have anointed one Babajide Sanwoolu as the next governor of Lagos
State.
Just recently, the Vice Chairman
of the APC in Lagos East Senatorial District, Asipa Kaoli Olusanya, stated that
Tinubu instructed the 57 Local Council Chairmen in the state to work towards
the emergence of Sanwonolu as the next governor of the state.
However, Oshiomhole dismissed the
claims of rift between Ambode.
Speaking during a meeting the
party’s governors, Oshiomhole insisted that the Lagos State chapter of the
party was in sound health, irrespective of the discontents against the
governor, Vanguard reports.
According to Oshiomhole, “Now,
the attempt to say an embattled governor…there is no APC governor that is
embattled and because we are democratic, the best way to measure democracy is
the presence of more than one person showing interest in an office.
“That does not make any other
person embattled. But, of course, the media can create this impression that
there is an earthquake in Lagos; there is no earthquake.
“At every level, I have seen
people claiming that in one or two offices there was no opposition. In every
other office, we have more than one candidate expressing interest. Those people
who are currently occupying those positions are not by reasons of those new
expressions of interests, embattled.
“Three, to say that you have
never seen Lagos state governor in our meetings is to the extent that your lens
is blurred. My records and minutes of our meetings will show the participation
of the Lagos state governor in all the meetings in which he has been invited.
“I think our party in Lagos is at
peace.”
Chai this APC people are seriously sick and obsessed
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