dtemidare: The jostle for who becomes the next governor of Lagos State is now getting clearer. Information at the behest of this tabloid has it that Hakeem Muri OKunola, is being touted to be the next governor of Lagos state. The Action Congress of Nigeria Chieftain, Asiwju Bola Ahmed Tinunbu is believed to be positioning Hakeem for the plum post. Political pundits are already claiming that even with Hakeem’s young age, he may not get the blessing of those in the ACN caucus, but TInubu is determined to put Hakeem in the same manner he put Babatunde Raji Fashola as governor of Lagos state in 2007.

Meanwhile, it has now become a talk of the town in Lagos state on who the next governor will be come 2015 after the exit of the incumbent governor Babatunde Fashola. As it is, political pundits believe that the Jagabon Borgu, Bola Tinubu will prefer to use one of his boys who is now a permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Hakeem Muri Okunola, whose father was a revered Justice in the court of appeal in Lagos state before he passed on.

When Hakeem Muri Okunola graduated as a Law student in London, he served with Ibile Holdinds as company secretary. That was when Adewusi was the Managing Director, and from there Hakeem served Tinubu in his second term as his personal assistant. Shortly after Tinubu left government, Hakeem was made to become an Executive Secretary in a very posh body that guarantees good facilitations. It is now no more news that Hakeem is being prepared for the Alausa secretariat top notch office even as speculations are rife that another top ACN member is said to be in the race for the governorship post. He is Muiz Banire who now holds sway as the National Legal Adviser of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.

Between Muiz Banire and Hakeem Muri Okunola, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu may find it very hard to pick one of the two because Hakeem’s father used to be a family friend to the Tinubus and Muiz Banire is also a fraternal friend to Bola Tinubu.

Observers of the whole development however pointed at the direction of Akin Ambode, the state’s Accountant General who recently resigned his appointment. it was Akin who defended all the Tinubu’s administration expenses at the anti graft agency and that he hails from Epe confirms all speculations that he is in the race as the last joker of the political class who insist in having an indigene as next Lagos governor

As it is now, no one can say who will be the next governor of Lagos state, just as the opposition party PDP are pulling all the strings to upstage the ACN come 2015. It is indeed going to be a very good scenario because ACN as a party is well-rooted in Lagos state and the PDP is not leaving anything to chance.

Biggyd2: Na wa o. Nigeria and godfatherism!

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obowunmi: Must every Lagos state governor be Muslim

aryzgreat: Na only muslims sabi rule lagos? time to vote PDP or any party that fields a christian, d wayo don 2 much!

obowunmi: Must every Lagos state governor be Muslim

obowunmi: Must every Lagos state governor be Muslim

caseless: Numskull,if lagosians hav bn tinkin like u, do u tink d state wld bn a model 4 otha states like it is 2day? Pple like u kiled our dream nd caused evry prblm w'r in 2day.

aryzgreat: Na only muslims sabi rule lagos? time to vote PDP or any party that fields a christian, d wayo don 2 much!

Billyonaire: ACN in Lagos is more corrupt than PDP. I am yet to see what they do with IGR and State Allocation from ABJ. Lekki-Epe road is a PPP project. Badagry rail-line is world bank loan. IGR from each location is what is used in planting flowers in those locations. LAWMA are paid by households as Lagos State presents bills for that on monthly basis. Tinubu is richer than ACN and anoints each candidate. Indeed Tinubu is the god of ACN. PDP conducts primaries, ACN does not. This anointing should stop henceforth, let the best man win during primaries.

[/quote]As it is now, no one can say who will be the next governor of Lagos state, just as the opposition party PDP are pulling all the strings to upstage the ACN come 2015. It is indeed going to be a very good scenario because ACN as a party is well-rooted in Lagos state and the PDP is not leaving anything to chance.[quote]

kettykin: The gradual but steady Islamization of the SW is almost complete ,
By the Time the Naive and Gillible Yoruba Christians wake up it will be dam too late , My guess is that the fate of Yoruba Christian will be worst than that of Middle Belt Chistians who uptill now are mute and are still wondering when and how and what actually happened to them . The Bakares and OBJs who are busy fighting Goddluck Jonathan instead of fighting thier own battle, U na do welloo

Aderostock:
Respect for that comment. I dont believe obowunmi is a yoruba, if he is, he wont have said cos we dont attach religious sentiments with our lives

afam4eva: Is there no Christian that Tinubu can make a governor? Why always a Muslim. Not that there's anything wrong with it but it's making me thing that there's a grand plan to exclude Christians from Lagos politics.

obowunmi:

Well stated. Nothing is sustainable when you begin excluding people. So because Tinubu is a muslim means that he should force Muslim leaders on Lagosians

caseless: Numskull,if lagosians hav bn tinkin like u, do u tink d state wld bn a model 4 otha states like it is 2day? Pple like u kiled our dream nd caused evry prblm w'r in 2day.

truth4meal: Billyonaire or what is that you name; you say Fashola is not doing anything, am sure you stay in ur village somewhere in the east because if you are in Lagos ur stinking mouth won't release this germ coated utterance. Tinubu is the National Leader of a party and the leader of the Yoruba just like his Baba, Awolowo in the UPN and AG days. and taking about primaries there is no section of the electoral law that mandates it neither does the constitution of Nigeria. its bera not to do primaries that the Kangaroo primaries that tore the dirty fabrics of PDP in Lagos till date.