Two new contenders for the Lagos State delegate under the All Progressives Congress’ umbrella ascended on Tuesday, fuelling theories that all was not well with the officeholder congressperson, Akinwunmi Ambode, and a national pioneer of the social affair, Bola Tinubu.
The aspirants, who were past justices in the state, Dr Obafemi Hamzat and Jide Sanwoolu, were said to have claimed to have Tinubu’s help.
The tenant congressperson, Ambode, was in like manner said to have the APC national pioneer’s sponsorship when he reported on Monday.
A visit to the social affair’s state secretariat on Tuesday did not yield natural item as the work environment was sold out by party specialists.
In any case, a couple of workers at the secretariat said the trio of Ambode, Hamzat and Sanwoolu were most likely going to challenge the governorship ticket in the prompt party fundamental energized to come in around fourteen days.
Nevertheless, reports from sources said the request total controlled by Tinubu had upheld Sanwoolu.
A source expressed, “Sanwoolu is at present the man to beat. Did you see the Lagos APC Chairman, Tunde Balogun, and other tremendous APC chieftains at Ambode’s second-term explanation?”
Another source expressed, “The representative (Ambode) got a breathing space from Tinubu before picking the social occasion’s task shape.”
An online news platform, TheCable, on Tuesday ensured 57 board of trustees chiefs dedicated to Tinubu had met and promised their assistance for Sanwoolu.
The online paper also refered to an accomplice of Tinubu, James Odunmbaku, as saying, “Sanwoolu is the moving toward authoritative pioneer of Lagos.”
At whatever point achieved, Tinubu’s media collaborator, Mr Tunde Rahman, said the wannabes should state when Tinubu grasped them.
He expressed, “OK have the capacity to ask for that the hopefuls reveal to you when he (Tinubu) grasped them? Allow them to uncover to you when he upheld them.”
