Nigeria: Lagos 2015 - Stakeholders Resist Attempt to Impose Ambode

21 April 2014

Any attempt by former Lagos State Governor and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, to impose former Accountant-General of the state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as the next governor of the state would be resisted vehemently, a group, Visioners for New Lagos (VNL), has warned. The group, which threatened that it would be fight to finish if Tinubu and his cronies insisted on imposing Ambode, noted that it had studied the body language of the APC leader and could tell where he was headed, especially since he was said to have confided in some of his confidants about the choice of Ambode.

Lagos, it insisted, does not belong to any individual and would settle the scores once and for all in 2015. Coordinator of the group, which is sympathetic to the cause of the APC, Mr. Bambo Akin-Johnson, said in spite of the ideals of the APC as a mega party, Tinubu had refused to drop his unsavoury habit since the days of the Alliance for Democracy (AD), driven by self-centredness, political Darwinism and perceived ownership of the state.

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