A last-minute effort by the wife of the Lagos State Governor, Bolanle Ambode, to save her husband’s job was said to have hit a brick wall on Tuesday.

It was gathered that Bolanle, who followed Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to Osun State on Monday for the Tuesday’s All Progressives Congress’ mega rally for the state governorship candidate, Gboyega Oyetola, waylaid the National Leader of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and tried to pacify him to change his mind.

Sources told our correspondents that her efforts did not yield any result as Tinubu was said to have “received her cordially and joked with her.”

“At a point, she became emotional despite the fact that many party leaders were there. But Asiwaju (Tinubu) did not give her the answer she desired. He merely treated her with courtesy,” one of the sources said.

The governor and Tinubu have been in the news in the past few days over the second term bid of Ambode.


Tinubu had refused to back Ambode’s second term ambition despite pleas by notable people in the state and the country.

Instead, the Tinubu-led Mandate Movement in the Lagos APC had backed Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who obtained his form last Tuesday.

The chairmen of the 57 councils had also declared support for Sanwo-Olu.

Sawo-Olu, a former commissioner in the state on Sunday formally declared his intention to vie for the Lagos State governorship ticket of the APC, promising to restore the glory of the state.

Notable APC leaders in the state, who were either allies of Tinubu or his followers, were at the declaration.

Meanwhile, sources said the Mandate group had started wooing another aspirant on the APC platform, Dr Obafemi Hamzat.

It was gathered that Tinubu’s men wanted Hamzat, who is from the Lagos East like Ambode, to become the deputy governor with a promise that he would supervise a ministry and also nominate two commissioners into the cabinet.


Hamzat campaign team could not be reached on Tuesday for comment.

PSP operators declare support for Sanwo-Olu

In a related development, the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria on Tuesday made public its intention to support Sanwo-Olu.

The Lagos APC will hold its primary next week to decide who will be its governorship candidate in 2019 election among the incumbent Ambode, Sanwo-Olu, and Hamzat.

At a press conference in their Mushin office on Tuesday, the PSP operators said they believed that Sanwo-Olu, if voted in to replace Ambode, would restore their jobs which the incumbent administration took and gave to a foreign company, Visionscape.

The Vice Chairman of the association, Mr David Oriyomi, who addressed journalists alongside other executive members of AWAM, said the decision to back Sanwo-Olu, was in the interest of about 25,000 workers engaged by the 350 PSP operators, who had lost their jobs.

Oriyomi said the association boasts of no fewer than 150,000 voters at the grass roots, who would be mobilised to help Sanwo-Olu to achieve his governorship ambition.


He expressed the confidence that not only would the emergence of Sanwo-Olu as the next governor of Lagos State help to revive the business of the PSP operators, it would also restore Lagos to its former clean state.

He said, “This injustice should not be allowed to continue, the health and well-being of residents of Lagos must be paramount to all.

“It is, therefore, with great hope that we welcome the emergence of Sanwo-Olu, who has promised to run a participatory government.

“For this reason, we, the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, have decided to align ourselves with Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and pledge our full support to him in the forth- coming elections.

“This decision was taken in the best interest of the environment. We remain committed to servicing the great residents of the centre of excellence. It is time to clean up our city; we did it before, we are able and willing to actualise the Lagos of our dreams.

“We did not just choose to support Sanwo-Olu; we looked at the aspirants. We have the incumbent, we have Femi Hamzat and we have Sanwo-Olu.

“The incumbent, we have seen what he has to offer when it comes to waste management in the state – there is nothing he can offer us.

“Then Hamzat, we have not heard much from his camp; but Sanwo-Olu named the issue of the environment as one of the critical issues that he is going to tackle,” Oriyomi said.

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Oga you and tinubu make una no de disturb our peace abeg, But wait,you be tinubu boy? Wey im go de comand you anyhow

The state church chaplain will be laughhing at Ambode wife ,Abi she has forgotten the slap she gave and 24hrs vacation order,the redundancy at Alausa had no part 2.The PSP members are yet to recovered.Visionscape can import Dubai electorate for him.You don't mess up with the power that back you..

Ambo you tried but in the area of sanitizing Lagos you failed. Ambode should man up and go for the primary, thats why it's called politicking.

Jabioro:
The state church chaplain will be laughhing at Ambode wife ,Abi she has forgotten the slap she gave and 24hrs vacation order,the redundancy at Alausa had no part 2.The PSP members are yet to recovered.Visionscape can import Dubai electorate for him.You don't mess up with the power that back you..

She didnt slap him tho.

Bye bye Ambode.

Ambode should stop begging and face it head on.
He's a sitting governor with adequate powera

A woman has the power to make your dreams come true or destroy you forever.

Fear women

Ambode is coming back most definitely. All these actings is just to put him in his place and for him to do the needful once he gets reelected.

aolawale025:
Ambode should stop begging and face it head on.
He's a sitting governor with adequate powera

Baba mi, power pass power ooo.

Jabioro:
The state church chaplain will be laughhing at Ambode wife ,Abi she has forgotten the slap she gave and 24hrs vacation order,the redundancy at Alausa had no part 2.The PSP members are yet to recovered.Visionscape can import Dubai electorate for him.You don't mess up with the power that back you..

He really messed up big time especially by doing away with projects ordinary Citizens are gaining from. Dubai can't help him now as it is.

Jabioro:
The state church chaplain will be laughhing at Ambode wife ,Abi she has forgotten the slap she gave and 24hrs vacation order,the redundancy at Alausa had no part 2.The PSP members are yet to recovered.Visionscape can import Dubai electorate for him.You don't mess up with the power that back you..

You said it right.These two negatives that will forever hunts Ambode and his wife esp.the latter's sacrilege @ the church.

God fatherism is a stumbling block in politics where greediness is an obvious factor paraded by wicked men/women involved. That being said, atimes can seldom be a correction to whom is volunteered to rule but misbehaving.

No doubt Ambode has really tried with some noticeable cosmetic projects but areas where he is most needed is seen absent. I don't need to emphasize on the state of environmental filthiness or the deplorable state of roads in many part of the state.

I miss the days of Fashola where infrastructural development and clean environment is having a field day in his tenure.

As for Jide Sanwo-olu, it's seems he is just using the empathy of PSP to campaign for Lagos people. What exactly are his economic and infrastructure plans?

Mynd44 and Lalasticlala, can we have your attention gentlemen?

If am ambode I will contest and if I lose I will leave the govt for them

He who God wishes to destroy, he first hardens his heart.

APC in Lagos is getting watery
Denying Ambode a second term would surely leave a crack in the wall

Ambode better know who Lagos belongs to. This is beyond power of incumbency o. Tinubu has proven again and again that he is the "Don Clericuzio" and the "Don Corleone" of Yoruba political arena. He better do the needful if he wants to continue in office. Pay obeisance to his political Godfather!!!

She knows what to do.

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He should quietly pull out of the primaries that is better and honourable than him accepting the stringent conditions given to him and become a dumb governor, which will make a laughing governor among his colleagues.
I don't know how someone will be fighting everyone at the same time, his executives ( commissioners) are not in good relationship with him, most of his HOA members are not in cordial relationship, former governor fashola fighting him, his other western governors forming big boy to them because of the internal generated revenue of his state and most of his state party elders are not in your good books.
People will say it is one by one we remove wood from fire. Also give to ceaser what belongs to ceaser for you to be great.

If Tinubu changes his mind by supporting Ambode for a second term in office, the governor will still move against the interest of Tinubu and turned to another Fashola.

Managing a god father like Tinubu requires a great wisdom.

It appears almost all who campaigned for Ambode complained about him sidelining them and favouring those who did not have any input in his reelection.

Ambode was forming Buhari's 'I belong to nobody' in Tinubu's Lagos.

Ok

Mheeennn! Some people in are actually praying that jagaban shouldn't change his stance on Ambode. That's it those people in ministry. Them no see money chop. So, can say such kind of people prayer can be working Sha.

Cheap clean s6 edge. Check my signature.

She shud rather go and apologize to the man of God who she maltreated. Reinstate in him back and there might be hope.

Her lack of humility to God because she became a governors wife led her down this part of sheer arrogance disrespecting elders who helped you up and now it’s costing ur husband his job.

How many presidents do u see disrespecting men of God(unless genuine reason). They will rather avoid direct confrontations with them and face their jobs. U kicked him out now God is kicking u out.

Subservient slaves.

Share for Tinubu Like for ambode #lagosdecide

Hmm.

wristbangle:


As for Jide Sanwo-olu, it's seems he is just using the empathy of PSP to campaign for Lagos people. What exactly are his economic and infrastructure plans?

Mynd44 and Lalasticlala, can we have your attention gentlemen?

He promised to restore and continue with Lagos state development plan blueprint started by Fashola and stopped by Ambode

Ambode is acting as if his performance as governor isn't enough to make him win. If performance can't win second term, then this country is dead.

Then all you actually need to win elections or second term in Nigerian politics is not capabilities, good track record, integrity, transparency or performance; you only need to know the right people. Even if I'm corrupt and a total failure in my first term in office, I can still have landslide victory for second term if I'm connected to the right political godfathers.

This country will die a permanent death if this trend continues.

if ambode had performed 70% of what fashola did in his first regime he would have been the one to sabotage tinubu's power steel in Lagos state even if he cross to any party he would have challenge tinubu political wave but his under performance placed him as a subordinate under tinubu's political influence, nonetheless if he's deny second term ticket from APC, he shouldn't waste time to stay put in APC or else his political image would become a reference to history. he would be better of, to cross to PDP and pick a senatorial ticket because he can't win as PDP consensus governorship aspirant


but why am I having the thinking that APC and tinubu had pardoned him but are playing political empathy drama to distract the opposition party that Lagos PDP is already listening to

Tinubu is the don! He carefully placed himself there. I wish someone could actually shame him by making a mockery of his political powers. APC should lose Lagos in 2019...Jimi Agbaje is a good deal jare.