on August 31, 2014 / in News 12:29 am /

A frontline governorship aspirant in Lagos State and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon, popularly called GOS, has held discussions with top officials of local governments in all the 57 council areas of the state.

The meeting, held to seek the support of the council bosses for his gubernatorial aspiration was closely followed, weekend, by the declaration of total support for GOS by a socio-political organization, Patriots Face. The group, parading thousands of members across the 57 council areas of the state, declared its support for the senator’s aspiration at a ceremony in Mushin.

A statement by Solomon’s campaign team, yesterday, said “the meeting midweek with vice chairmen and secretaries of all the local councils in Lagos was aimed at mobilizing them for the senator’s governorship ambition which has been receiving widespread support across the state’’.

The statement added: ‘’He urged the gathering to buy in and take ownership of the drive to put behind us the culture of imposition and enthrone internal democracy in our party, a move that will ultimately entrench participatory democracy in the state and our nation at large. He also canvassed the support of the senior LG officials for his candidacy at the party’s primaries.”

At a well attended and colourful ceremony in Mushin, the leadership and members of Patriots Face from the 57 council areas in the state endorsed Solomon as the best candidate to fly APC’s flag in the February 2015 governorship election.

Reacting to the two developments, Solomon, the Senate Minority Whip, said he is taking his consultations and mobilization wide and deep to various stakeholders at the grassroots “because they matter and we recognize their importance to our aspiration.”

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barcanista: ‘’He urged the gathering to buy in and take ownership of the drive to put behind us the culture of imposition and enthrone internal democracy in our party, a move that will ultimately entrench participatory democracy in the state and our nation at large. He also canvassed the support of the senior LG officials for his candidacy at the party’s primaries.”
GOS going the way of Otunba Femi Pedro of 2007. I can assure him that even in his Mushin he will be floored. GOS has been a Chairman LGA, Rep member 2003 to 2007 and Senator 2007 to 2015. All in all he never won primaries nor ticket. He was given on a platter of Gold. He's a product of endorsement. Anyway, whether in APC primaries or the main election he will lose big time to Akinwunmi Ambode. This is 2007 repeating again. The Council of Obas led by Rilwan Akiolu has endorsed Ambode and has so advised others to drop their aspiration or be embarrassed @ the general poll and primaries. I believe APC primaries will still hold(as it was in 2007) but Ambode will triumph. GOS is VERY inconsequential in Lagos politics and overrated by the media