Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, has denied reports claiming he was working with the agents of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, to ensure that APC and its governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu lose in the March 9th election. There were reports that the governor was using his close ally, Tokunbo Afikuyomi, to campaign agaisnt Sanwo-Olu and APC.
Governor Ambode in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna, said that having publicly declared his acceptance of the decision of the party on the party’s governorship primaries, he would never take any action to undermine the prospects of the party in the ongoing elections.
Recall that Ambode lost his re-election bid in a controversial governorship primaries that held in the state last October thatsaw Sanwo-Olu, the preferred candidate of APC National Chairman, Bola Tinubu, winner of the primaries.
Read the statement below
The statement reads: “The attention of the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, has been drawn to a report in today’s edition of The Nation newspaper, Friday March 1, 2019. “Specifically, the contentious report, which was published on the newspaper’s front page without any by-line, insinuated that Governor Ambode might be working with an opposition party through a former member of the Lagos State Executive Council and Commissioner for Energy & Mineral Resources, Mr. Wale Oluwo. “The report also attempted to hold the Governor responsible for the alleged activities of Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi because he supported the governor’s gubernatorial ambition during the primaries of the All Progressives Congress in October 2018.
“The governor wishes to make it abundantly clear that, having declared publicly his acceptance of the decision of the party on the primaries, he has not and will never take any action to undermine the prospects of the party in the on-going elections. “
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