Lagos State governorship candidate
of the All Progressives Congress
(APC), Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, may
be arrested by security agencies this
week over an alleged criminal
conduct.
Sunday Tribune reports that the
finance expert is likely to be picked
up on Wednesday for questioning
and possible detention.
This follows a petition alleging
perjury against Ambode authored by
Lagos APC Integrity Group.
Copies were submitted to the police
and the Department of State
Security Service (DSS) last week.
Attached to the petition were
documents to prove the alleged
perjury against the governorship
candidate.
The petitioners accused Ambode of
lying on oath by claiming in his Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) examination form in 1981
that he was from Ilaje in Ondo State,
only to claim in his APC nomination
form, on oath again, to be from Epe
in Lagos State, during the
governorship primary contest.
The former Accountant-General of
Lagos State is now said to be under
security surveillance, to forestall his
escape from the country.
He would be declared wanted if he
manages to escape from the country
before security agents get to him.
A member of the Integrity Group
disclosed that the party members
behind the petition decided to be
open about it so that Ambode’s case
would not be couched as impunity
on the part of the Federal
Government or harassment by the
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ambode, backed by the party’s
national leader, Senator Bola
Tinubu, last Thursday, defeated 12
others to clinch the party’s ticket.
Most had opposed the process
leading to the exercise and insisted
on indirect primary, rather than
direct primary that was conducted.
There are two cases at the Federal
High Court in Lagos challenging the
process and conduct of the exercise.
Ambode’s godfather, Tinubu also
faced alleged perjury case after his
emergence as the governorship
candidate of the defunct Alliance for
Democracy (AD) in 1999.
Late human rights lawyer, Chief Gani
Fawehinmi, SAN, pursued the alleged
perjury case against him to the
Supreme Court.
The apex court however ruled that
Tinubu, as governor, had immunity
from investigation from the
Inspector-General of Police as
demanded by Fawehinmi.
The court held that the police could
make discreet investigation, but it
was not permitted to come in
contact with the governor in any way
in the course of the probe.
The governor must also not know
that he was being investigated.
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Findings from such discreet probe,
according to the apex court, could,
however, be used in prosecuting the
governor after office. Nothing has
happened after then.
www.dailypost.ng/2014/12/07/alleged-perjury-dss-police-set-arrest-tinubus-protege-apc-candidate-ambode/#comment-169016

The police does not understand their constitutional duty. The aggrieved party should take the case to court and I am convinced they will lose because that guy have lived in Lagos for so long.

They are bunch of criminals, arrest them all!!!