A governorship aspirant on the platform of Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Leke Pitan, has appealed to all his counterparts on the party’s platform to desist from acts that may arm the party’s chances as it looks forward to pick its standard-bearer for the 2015 Governorship Election.
“We hope all those thinghttp://www.yohaig.com/newspapers/nigerian-tribune/ambode-were-not-aggrieved-pitan/s are curtailed and we strongly appeal that we should conduct ourselves in a way not to arm the party. We know how best practices are done in the party,” he charged.
The aspirant, who was former commissioner for health in the state, said this while speaking with Sunday Tribune on phone when his reaction was sought on a report published in our sister paper, Saturday Tribune.
The paper had reported that some of his co-aspirants, who appear to be aggrieved on plans to impose Mr Akin Ambode as the party’s candidate by the leadership were already holding secret meetings with their counterparts in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in what can be termed a cross party fraternity with a view to defeat Ambode, should he be eventually forced on them.
Pitan, who, denied knowledge that some of his colleagues were aggrieved as a result of the perceived imposition of Ambode, said he was only aware of the fact that every aspirant on the party’s platform was in support of the emergence of a consensus candidate as the APC standard-bearer in the 2015 governorship election.
“I am not aware of any such meeting between aspirants on our party and those on the PDP platform. I am only aware of plans for a consensus arrangement amongst aspirants in our party, that is, aspirants talking amongst themselves to produce a consensus candidate. You know we are mature people. That is what consensus means,” he said