By Emmanuel Aziken


THE unsettled question of the falling apart of Mr Akinwunmi Ambode and national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has come to haunt the presidential aspiration of the latter, Saturday Vanguard has learnt.

Mr Ambode was denied a second term in office in 2019 after Tinubu and the Governance Advocacy Council, GAC, the apex supervisory body in the APC in Lagos State withdrew support for Ambode. That support was switched over to Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu who easily won the primary supervised by a panel led by former Cross River State governor, Mr. Clement Ebri.

Saturday Vanguard gathered that at the meeting between Tinubu and APC governors last Tuesday that the issue was on the sideline of the discourse as some governors expressed concern that Tinubu was unforgiving of Ambode despite appeals from several governors and emissaries of President Muhammadu Buhari for a rethink.

“The issue of Ambode and Obaseki came up and some governors expressed concern that despite the personal efforts of the president and many governors who came to lobby for Ambode that Asiwaju did not relent,” a source privy to the discussion disclosed.

“It was a matter of concern that if for someone like Obaseki that governors came as a delegation to beg and you were not commander-in-chief and you refused to heed, we wonder how he would treat us subsequently,” a source privy to the discussion disclosed.

However, the assertion was pooh-poohed by the Tinubu camp yesterday which dismissed the insinuations as the source revealed deep details of how Ambode allegedly severally humiliated Tinubu and many of those who helped to make him governor in 2015.

“Ambode would not even answer Asiwaju’s phone calls and it got to an extent that anytime he (Tinubu) wanted to reach him, he would go through a third party and one of Ambode’s PA’s (Biodun) to get to him,” a source close to Asiwaju Tinubu disclosed.

Saturday Vanguard reports that the substitution of Ambode by Sanwo-Olu was reportedly a popular move by the top hierarchy of the party in Lagos who alleged that the former governor became out of touch with many of them.

Governors at the meeting with Tinubu which held at the Kebbi State Governor’s Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja included Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna), Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) Umaru Ganduje (Kano), Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi), Mai Mala Buni (Yobe), Mohammed Badaru Abubakar (Jigawa) and Dapo Abiodun (Ogun).

Others present were Abudlrazaq Abdulrahman (Kwara), Hope Uzondinma (Imo), Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa) and Isiaka Oyetola (Osun). Saturday Vanguard reports that Tinubu, Vice President Osinbajo and Minister for Transportation Rotimi Amaechi have been projected among the leading declared aspirants for the presidential ticket of the APC.

triple996:
Free tinubu ameg

Donshegxy10:
Vanguard with fake news, they are trying to guess what happened at the meeting, no credible source.

The fact still remains that ambode dug his own political grave.
He offended people that matters, tinubu was not the cause of his problem, his removal was championed by mandate group of lagos apc, if tinubu had vetoed their power, tinubu and the party will be disgraced in the last election.

colorsofrainbow:


Easy with those tears. It's just getting started. You will need it at the appropriate time.

slivertongue:
I knew a day like this will come. He turned down the plea of the president, VP, governors etc. No one will trust him

Pakute:

That's your cup of coffee. Lagos was clean under Fashola but became like a pigsty like Abia state under Ambode. Ambode became unaccessible and invisible except for a few infrastructures in Epe. Lagosians rejected Ambode and voted him out.

helinues:
Cry us an ocean..

Ambode has already moved on, you people should too

“It was a matter of concern that if for someone like Obaseki that governors came as a delegation to beg and you were not commander-in-chief and you refused to heed, we wonder how he would treat us subsequently,” a source privy to the discussion disclosed.

Esseite:


Their fear is on, if one who is just National leader and not commander in chief could be so bragant despite pleas from collegues and even the commander in chief, such a person is not fit to be accorded more power..

helinues:


Tinubu is so powerful to the extent he is the same Apc members in their thousands that voted against Ambode in the primary election.

Some of you people know nothing about Lagos politics. When Ambode was a governor of Lagos state, did he build any political base? I know some of his boys who was a chairman of one local government in Lagos state, the guy admitted Ambode didn't reach out to the grassroots. He shielded all the advises given to him.

He could have thought about when those people would be needed before forming stubborn man

Donshegxy10:
Vanguard with fake news, they are trying to guess what happened at the meeting, no credible source.

The fact still remains that ambode dug his own political grave.
He offended people that matters, tinubu was not the cause of his problem, his removal was championed by mandate group of lagos apc, if tinubu had vetoed their power, tinubu and the party will be disgraced in the last election.

MajorOvakporaye:
Tinubu the useless criminal. You have already failed. Next president of Iragbiji Town Union. Bastard!!!

simpleseyi:


This was how those before you started, now they are at the psychiatric hospital

ChoCho54:
So you mean giving ambode a second chance would have cost APC the election? Now this is beer parlor analysis.

Donshegxy10:
Vanguard with fake news, they are trying to guess what happened at the meeting, no credible source.

The fact still remains that ambode dug his own political grave.
He offended people that matters, tinubu was not the cause of his problem, his removal was championed by mandate group of lagos apc, if tinubu had vetoed their power, tinubu and the party will be disgraced in the last election.