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EXCLUSIVE: Party Elders, Seyi Tinubu Block Sanwo-Olu's Move To Takeover Lagos APC Structure

By Festus Adeloye


Attempts by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to take over the structures of the Lagos State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the relocation of President Bola Tinubu to Abuja has been resisted by party leaders in the state.

Credible sources in the party informed our correspondent that the onslaught against the governor is being led by the Governance Advisory Council (GAC) also known as the Council of Elders in the state chapter of the party and Seyi, the president's son.

Facts made available to TheScrutiny also reveal that the governor is being checkmated by the Lagos State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa.

According to our source, while Sanwo-Olu is already home and dry, having successfully secured and running his second term in office, issues relating to appointments and his successor in 2027 necessitated his move to attempt to take over the party’s structures as most state governors are automatically the party leaders in their respective states.

According to a serving member of the House of Representatives who was also a former party executive at the state level, when Sanwo-Olu was chosen by the party leaders in 2018 to replace his predecessor, Akinwunmi Ambode, he promised them that as a technocrat, he will focus on governance and leave political matters to the party leaders in the state.

"Yes, when the governor was chosen by the party leaders in 2018 to replace Ambode, he promised to play by the rules and focus completely on governance and allow the party leaders take charge of political matters . He did that throughout his first term and there was no problem at all".

" The problem began shortly after the conclusion of the 2023 general elections. When Asiwaju (President Tinubu) won the presidential election, the governor and his loyalists started nursing the idea of taking over the party structures".


"Unlike before, Asiwaju is always interested in who gets what in Lagos but now that he is preoccupied with managing the affairs of Nigeria and ECOWAS, the governor and those around him felt it's time for him to assert control over the party. However, the party leaders and the president's son, Seyi, won't have none of it".

" In Lagos APC, President Bola Tinubu is the apex leader of the GAC. Since becoming president and relocating to Abuja, Papa Prince Tajudeen Olusi who is the second-in-command has been in charge. However, he (Olusi) can't do much due to age and the fact that he was recently bereaved of his wife".

Going further, our source said Sanwo-Olu's attempt at filling his cabinet with his cronies shortly after he was sworn-in in for second term was vehemently resisted by the party elders and Seyi Tinubu who used the Assembly against him.

Although the governor submitted 39 names of commissioner-nominees, the Assembly refused to clear 17 from the list, leading to a stalemate that lasted for weeks.

Those not confirmed by the House were Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, Prof. Akin Abayomi, Mr Yomi Oluyomi, Mrs Folashade Ambrose, Ms Barakat Bakare, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, Engr. Olalere Odusote, Dr Rotimi Fashola, Mrs Bolaji Dada.
Others include: Mr Sam Egube, Mr Olalekan Fatodu, Mrs Solape Hammond, Mr Mosopefolu George, Engr. Aramide Adeyoye, Mr Seun Osiyemi, Mr Rotimi Ogunwuyi, and Dr Olumide Oluyinka.

The lawmakers argued that while the governor said he wanted technocrats in his government, the APC had many technocrats who were not considered as the list was filled with many individuals who did not work for the party’s success.


A leader of the party who also spoke with our correspondent said a civil war is going on silently in the APC over Sanwo-Olu's attempt to take over leadership of the party.

" The governor is still making frantic efforts to take over the party control but the party leaders, especially Seyi won't accept that. Seyi is very influential in Lagos and all the 57 Council Chairmen in Lagos state defer to him as well as House of Assembly members. They will cage the governor if he tries anything contrary to the agreement he had with the party leaders. Forget that he has second term already. The outcome will be worse than Ambode's own".

" The last has not been heard about the matter at all. Most of the current appointments by the governor didn't favour party members at all. Yet, these are the people who risked their lives when Labour Party won the presidential election in Lagos and almost clinched the governorship election too".

"The next election is not going to be a tea party at all. Anyone who is telling the governor otherwise is just deceiving him. A lot of people who stuck their neck for the APC in Lagos in the last election will not be willing to do that in 2027 with the level of anger and bitterness in the party".



https://thescrutinyng.com/2024/08/13/exclusive-party-elders-seyi-tinubu-block-sanwo-olus-move-to-takeover-lagos-apc-structure/

Seems Sanwo-Olu does not know who he is dealing with.

Fake news

Racoon:
Seems Sanwo-Olu does not know who he is dealing with.

Before they Funsho Williams him

Tinubu wants to force his son seyi on Lagos as governor

Gambari vs fulani...

Nah foolish bia-fraudians wey don submit their brains to nnamidiot cownu, nah dem go believe this nonsense

Story story... Na Tinubu get Lagos! Godfatherism is the norm there. These are weaklings and cowards who defer to the Tinubu family and have done so for years.. Sanwo Olu can't win this one. Make im no try am.

These Full grown adult men should have their balls surgically removed for two reasons

1. They are obviously useless as they are just placeholders between the legs of the cowards.
2. So that they don't reproduce. It would be a shameful disaster to pass down gene encoded cowardice to their kids.

OneCandleAway:
Before they Funsho Williams him

Or Bola Ige'd him

😂 😂

helinues:
Fake news

Exactly

Orishirishi
🤣🤣🤣
Sanwo-Olu of yesterday wan hijack Lagos APC comot for Jagaban hand
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Small nyansh dey shake
He might be impeached sef

helinues:
Fake news

Una say more than this when Ambode own start. No worry, they go soon give una signal

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Seunex2:
Nah foolish bia-fraudians wey don submit their brains to nnamidiot cownu, nah dem go believe this nonsense

No worry, when signal land for una, sanwo olu will turn from the best governor, into the worst governor that is not following asiwajus blueprint.

No be today nyash dey back. Sanwos world press conference fit come soon.

OneCandleAway:
Before they Funsho Williams him

Tinubu isn’t God joor. Why the fear? Yeyenatu

EngrKemp:
Tinubu wants to force his son seyi on Lagos as governor

That one no concern us. Lol. What I want to see is how sanwo will turn from best performer to worst performer. Wait make signal land first, e go shock you.


I remember Ambode those days. Once news like this make fp, APC SW go shout say na Igbo. Ambode go rush snap pishure with Tinubu. Dem go insult Igbo for trying to tear the best performing governor and the master strategist apart 😂. For news wey punch or dailyng write o. 🤣

Oboy small time we come dey hear world press conference o. Ambode call sanwo mad man 😂

Signal land fiam, suddenly Ambode became worst performing governor wey no dey follow baba blueprint🤣

That pastor wey ambode wife assault, Dem table am one time. 😋

Durty for road wey dey invisible since, they remember am 🤭

They even blamed him for the lack of running tap water in Lagos. Chineekeeee🤣

Hahaha!!!,
Seyi Tinubu has every right to take over APC Lagos State it belongs to his father Mr Tinubu
Other APC Members are parasites

EngrKemp:
Tinubu wants to force his son seyi on Lagos as governor

E concern you? Abi we complain give you?

Nothing lasts forever. Empires are built, empires are destroyed or dismantled. Let's assume Tinubu finished from government, you think they will allow him retire to Lagos godfather?It's his 2023 election he is joking with. It's a matter of time.

Man must learn to know when to say it's over. If in doubt, ask the Adedibus, Sarakis and many more. This life we are living, na film

CorrectionFLuid:
That one no concern us. Lol. What I want to see is how sanwo will turn from best performer to worst performer. Wait make signal land first, e go shock you.


I remember Ambode those days. Once news like this make fp, APC SW go shout say na Igbo. Ambode go rush snap pishure with Tinubu. Dem go insult Igbo for trying to tear the best performing governor and the master strategist apart 😂. For news wey punch or dailyng write o. 🤣

Oboy small time we come dey hear world press conference o. Ambode call sanwo mad man 😂

Signal land fiam, suddenly Ambode became worst performing governor wey no dey follow baba blueprint🤣

That pastor wey ambode wife assault, Dem table am one time. 😋

Durty for road wey dey invisible since, they remember am 🤭

They even blamed him for the lack of running tap water in Lagos. Chineekeeee🤣

And the funny thing be say there's still no running tap water five years after Ambode left

Bitter Obidients and fake news are like 5 and 6

OneCandleAway:
Before they Funsho Williams him

Like they Funsho Williams Ambode ?

Yes, when the governor was chosen by the party leaders in 2018 to replace Ambode, he promised to play by the rules and focus completely on governance and allow the party leaders take charge of political matters . He did that throughout his first term and there was no problem at all".

Lagosians, can y'all see how all previous governors after Tinubu has been caged and swore never to interfere in Lagos state political matters? No wonder Tinubu succeeded in holding the state ransom for so long.

EngrKemp:
Tinubu wants to force his son seyi on Lagos as governor

If Lagos indegenes are not complaining, who are you?

Obasanjo’s daughter was made Ogun Commissioner and then Senator, Theodora Orji with is unparalleled failure made his son the Deputy Speaker of Abia State Assembly. El-Rufai’s two sons are at the National Assembly

E duh set

Wetin Sanwo know about politics...all this arse lickers will betray him and send him to oblivion bcus he's a nobody....hw was handpicked by the mumu wey dey rule Yorubas

Advice to Sanwo: finish your second term and contest for Senate or work hard for a ministerial appointment

Cxmanluvs:
Like they Funsho Williams Ambode ?

Ambode wasn't a threat. And thugs were already employed to frustrate his followers.

Funso was going to win.

Omo cowards plenty for that lagos oooo

God Forbid

I think Seyi Tinubu should be made the next Governor. He is eminently qualified..