Mixed fortunes for 2015 guber candidates

With less than two years to the next general elections, political maneuverings have started in several quarters for the various positions up for grabs. While most known faces have surfaced again to run for the positions they ran for in the past, some of them seem to have fizzled out of the political scene, Wale Elegbede reports
 

 

Jimi Agbaje- At ‘war’ with his former allies

On his first attempt to govern in Lagos State in 2007, he was roundly edged out of the race. Fast forwarding to 2015, he threw his hat into the ring again, but just like eight years ago, he kissed the dust again regardless of flying the flag of the ruling party at the time, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

No doubt, the pharmacist turned politician has carved a signature for himself in the narration of Lagos politics especially with his simplistic version of politicking, but that was not enough to give him the key to the Lagos House, Alausa.

Whilst the path to his emergence as the flag bearer of the PDP was as tortuous as the substantive election, Agbaje was able to ride on the back of the party’s leader in the state, Chief Bode George, before getting the ticket ahead of the former minister of state for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro. Putting up a tussle against the more formidable and organised All Progressives Congress and his then candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, Agbaje mustered 659, 788 votes while the APC candidate polled 811,944 votes. On local government basis, he won five out of the 20 local governments in the state.





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