30th September, 2018

1. Tomorrow, our party and the people of Lagos will have an encounter with destiny. We shall hold our governorship primary.

2. With the holding of direct primaries to elect governorship candidates in Lagos and other states, the APC takes a groundbreaking step toward greater internal democracy and progressive governance for the benefit of all people.

3. While our party is young, it has grown fast and has travelled far in a short time. This speaks well of the character of you, the party’s rank-and-file members. What, in other nations, has taken political parties generations to achieve, we have done in a few brief years.

4. No other party in Nigeria dare attempt what we have already dedicated ourselves to do. I thank and commend all APC members and all Lagosians who have lent their support to this historic and humane mission upon which our party has embarked.

5. We are democrats in the truest sense of the word. As such, we forever search for what is good and right for the people. With this ideal as our guide, tomorrow’s primary cannot be shaded by selfish ambition or the perceived personal grievance between this or that person.

6. Something much greater waits in the balance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the people of this state and how we can best maximise our collective destiny. By resort to direct primaries, the party places the people’s future soundly in their hands.

7. As democracy would have it, you shall be the authors of the party’s nomination and hopefully our next state government. I trust in the wisdom of the people and will abide it. However, as a leader of the party and as a former governor of our beloved and excellent Lagos,

8. I would be remiss if I did not make a few observations regarding the primary. My goal is and shall always be a better Lagos. To this objective, I have dedicated the greater part of my public life.

9. Roughly 20 years ago, a corps of dedicated and patriotic Lagosians, put aside personal interests and rivalries, to put their minds and best ideas together for the good of the state.

10. Out of this collaborative effort, was born a master plan for economic development that would improve the daily lives of our people. Bestowed on me was the honour of a lifetime when I was elected to be your governor in 1999. My administration faithfully implemented that plan.

11. The government of my immediate successor, Tunde Fashola, also honoured this enlightened plan. Where state government remained true to that blueprint, positive things happened.

12. During my tenure and Governor Fashola’s, Lagos state recorded improvements in all aspects of our collective existence, from public health to public sanitation, from education to social services, from the administration of justice to the cleaning of storm and sewage drains.

13. Businesses, large and small, invested, hired millions of workers and thrived. All Lagosians were to fully participate and justly benefit from the social dividends and improvements wrought by this plan.

14. From the common labourer, to business leaders, to professionals and our industrious civil service. We all were to be partners in a monumental but joint enterprise.

15. None was to be alienated. None was to be left out. And none were to be pushed aside. This is especially true for those who contributed so much to our development, whether as a business leader who has invested heavily in Lagos...

16. the homeowner who struggles to pay his fair share of taxes or as someone employed in the hard work of keeping our streets and byways clean so that others may go about their daily tasks unimpeded.

17. I make no pretence that the master plan is perfect. It can always be fine-tuned. However, whenever a government departed from this plan without compelling reason, the state and its people have borne the painful consequence of the improper departure.

18. I am encouraged by the emergence of a candidate in this primary who has served the state in senior positions in my administration, the Fashola administration and even in the current one.

19. While possessing a wealth of experience and exposure, he is a young man endowed with superlative vision and commitment. Most importantly, he understands the importance of the blueprint for development...

20. ...He esteems it as a reliable and well-conceived vehicle for the future development of the state. He also knows the value of reaching out and working with others in order to maximize development and provide people the best leadership possible.

21. We walk into this primary strong and confidently believing in the right course we are to take. We shall emerge from this primary even stronger and more confident that we have taken that course by returning Lagos and our party to their finest path.

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May the best candidate win!



You will never tell us how self serving you have been by remote controlling the past and present governor of the state.....


Is the blueprint about self preservation or serving the people of the state?


Can we just have a change of party totally and do away with Ambode, Tinubu, Sanwoolu and Co?



Can we create strong institutions and stronger politics than strong personalities



ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY!

Noted.

RIP APC Lagos chapter.

Grammar it all you want...

The beginning and end of the story are that you have found another stooge to plant on Lagosians to guarantee and foster your unfettered access to the state's coffers.

I'm loving this actually....

Let's see Ambode lose out in the primaries tomorrow and then goes on a singing binge like a canary bird of all he knows with evidence even when it means indicting himself directly in the numerous sleazes while he crosses over to the opposition.

I hope he gets sympathy votes from Lagosians to serve out his second term and humble you and your loyal minions who can't reason for themselves.

Enjoy my siggy jare

It's now open....

Royal Rumble....

Abuja backs Ambode
Ikoyi backs Jide...

Who will win the battle?

Most importantly,who wins the war?

The Jagaban has spoken...
Ambode is a goner...


I am PDP but my admiration for this man is unrivalled

fergie001:
It's now open....

Royal Rumble....

Abuja backs Ambode
Ikoyi backs Jide...

Who will win the battle?

Most importantly,who wins the war?

Is it Abuja that will vote in the primaries? I laugh

Make una kill una sef dia

TonyeBarcanista:
Is it Abuja that will vote in the primaries? I laugh

You will be surprised. Ambode voters will appear from nowhere.

TonyeBarcanista:
Is it Abuja that will vote in the primaries? I laugh

Stop trying to be politically correct....

And you think the man going for direct primaries is a fool?
Why is Tinubu threatening him to step down nah....or face impeachment...
What they do doesn't concern me but whatever makes the man this bold,there is something behind....

Why primaries when the anointed is already known, one who would deliver a blueprint without a mind of his own??

Bye bye to Ambo whatever.

TonyeBarcanista:
The Jagaban has spoken...
Ambode is a goner...


I am PDP but my admiration for this man is unrivalled

You are a double agent..

Who doesn't know that?

All these stories just confirmed that Tinub u has gotten another stooge in Sanwo - Olu.

I hope those blaming Ambode for shaking tables can now see the reason for his action. And who knows how many times he may have been insulted in private by same gang.

Lagosians should say NO to godfatherism.

statusquoante:

You will be surprised. Ambode voters will appear from nowhere.

How?

What happens if Ambode wins the primaries?

Why is Tinubu being a coward? Why can't he just name the candidate and endorse him?

maestroferdi:
You are a double agent..
Who doesn't know that?

OK.
Take this information to CBN and convert it to cash please

TonyeBarcanista:

How?

Wait till tomorrow...

18. I am encouraged by the emergence of a candidate in this primary who has served the state in senior positions in my administration, the Fashola administration and even in the current one.

19. While possessing a wealth of experience and exposure, he is a young man endowed with superlative vision and commitment. Most importantly, he understands the importance of the blueprint for development...

20. ...He esteems it as a reliable and well-conceived vehicle for the future development of the state. He also knows the value of reaching out and working with others in order to maximize development and provide people the best leadership possible.

Sanwo-Olu endorsement by Tinubu.

fergie001:

Stop trying to be politically correct....

And you think the man going for direct primaries is a fool?
Why is Tinubu threatening him to step down nah....or face impeachment...
What they do doesn't concern me but whatever makes the man this bold,there is something behind....

Let's see how he will win. You forget that the membership register are in the hands of Ward Chairman and these ward chairmen are against Ambo openly. We'll see whether he will manufacture his own register and voters from my village

NB: Tinubu has told Ambo to go and test his popularity but the dude has this defeatist mentality. He can't DEFEAT Jagaban in Lagos!!!

TonyeBarcanista:

Let's see how he will win. You forget that the membership register are in the hands of Ward Chairman and these ward chairmen are against Ambo openly. We'll see whether he will manufacture his own register and voters from my village

NB: Tinubu has told Ambo to go and test his popularity but the dude has this defeatist mentality. He can't DEFEAT Jagaban in Lagos!!!

Fine,let everybody disgrace themselves tomorrow...

Saying the man shouldn't fight is worse off...
Personally,I don't like him but chickening out is worse..
He is going to the primaries with a straight face..
Are you also unaware of the pressure from your Jagaban to redeploy Edgal?
If Udom had chickened out like that,will you be doing PR for him?

Give him a right to fight.....that's all

statusquoante:

Wait till tomorrow...

No wahala my brother...

Well. This is very mature. Though I am sympathetic to ambo, his recent outburst is childish and show that he may be a drowning man

I just like this man, dont know why.

fergie001:

Fine,let everybody disgrace themselves tomorrow...

Saying the man shouldn't fight is worse off...
Personally,I don't like him but chickening out is worse..
He is going to the primaries with a straight face..
Are you also unaware of the pressure from your Jagaban to redeploy Edgal?
If Udom had chickened out like that,will you be doing PR for him?

Give him a right to fight.....that's all

Udom is loved by all and PDP is a movement in Akwa Ibom unlike in Lagos/part of southwest where Tinubu is the movement.

Ambo doesn't have the clout nor the structure. He will fall yakata tomorrow and will lose again should he defect.

TonyeBarcanista:

Udom is loved by all and PDP is a movement in Akwa Ibom unlike in Lagos/part of southwest where Tinubu is the movement.

Ambo doesn't have the clout nor the structure. He will fall yakata tomorrow and will lose again should he defect.

Then let the man fight....
What was Oshiomhole's structure before he became Jagaban of Edo?
We are not talking of Deputy Gov,or Perm Sec...
We are talking about a Governor...

Let me ask you a straight ?
If Akpabio had told Udom to step down,what will you have advised him?

I hope Ambode wins the primaries right within APC gangan tomorrow. That will teach them humility. But wait sef, no be the same people who just declared a whole state elections inconclusive the moment it wasn't in their own favour?

Ambode, sorry jare. Just take heart.

TonyeBarcanista:
The Jagaban has spoken...
Ambode is a goner...


I am PDP but my admiration for this man is unrivalled

Shut up jare.....u re a zombie.

fergie001:

Then let the man fight....
What was Oshiomhole's structure before he became Jagaban of Edo?
We are not talking of Deputy Gov,or Perm Sec...
We are talking about a Governor...

Let me ask you a straight ?
If Akpabio had told Udom to step down,what will you have advised him?

Bros, we can't be going back and forth.

Unlike Lagos, In Akwa Ibom state there is no political structure outside the party where the Governor is in firm control, but in Lagos, the Mandate Group is more powerful than APC there. They make APC popular prior that they made AD. Today, AD is DEAD.

Ambo should stop whining and test his popularity. His childish attack on Sanwo-olu showed that he's unfit to be a leader.

Shebi na tomorrow, we go see na

TonyeBarcanista:

Bros, we can't be going back and forth.

Unlike Lagos, In Akwa Ibom state there is no political structure outside the party where the Governor is in firm control, but in Lagos, the Mandate Group is more powerful than APC there. They make APC popular prior that they made AD. Today, AD is DEAD.

Ambo should stop whining and test his popularity. His childish attack on Sanwo-olu showed that he's unfit to be a leader.

Shebi na tomorrow, we go see na

Typical you
Jide will be doing his own soonest...I hope you will say the same thing
It will be clearer in the next couple of days sha...