The End Has Come, As APC Takes Final Decision On Ambode, Reveals The 2019 Guber Candidate

Emerging report indicates that the All Progressives Congress, APC, power brokers, have settled for Bola Tinubu’s anointed candidate, Babajide Sanwoolu, in place of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, for the 2019 Lagos State Governorship election.

Babajide Sanwoolu has emerged as the handpicked candidate of the APC Kingmakers in Lagos State, and he has been anointed as the preferred candidate to unseat Governor Ambode, during the primary election exercise, slated for September 29, 2018 Recall, that Sanwoolu, picked his nomination form on the day Ambode was acquiring his, throwing the race for the Lagos State Government House, open.

It was learnt that the APC in Lagos State will go with the direct primary system, as opposed to the indirect primary system.

In a direct primary, all members of the party are allowed to choose flag-bearers, ahead of the general elections. In an indirect primary, only selected party delegates are allowed to vote.

If Ambode had been in the good books of his supposed godfather, Bola Tinubu, or other power brokers in the APC in the State, an indirect primary would have been settled for, and he would have been handed an automatic ticket.

The fact that they are making him go through the primaries with other Aspirants in a State like Lagos, shows you that they want to humiliate him”, Prince Abeng, a Political pundit, submitted.

Prince added that Ambode’s mood swings are now more frequent than they have ever been, and that the Governor is not holding back the tears.

“We saw him shedding tears the other day. He even drove himself out of Government House, something he has never done”, the source disclosed.

Elsewhere, it was gathered that the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, called Ambode, to offer him the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Governorship ticket in Lagos State.

Post-Nigeria was however, unable to independently verify the source’s claim. Another highly placed source, described Ambode’s mood these days as “crestfallen, somber, and a tad dejected”.

When Sanwoolu formally declared for Ambode’s seat, on Sunday, September 16, 2018, all of Tinubu’s loyalists in Lagos, including Senator Gbenga Ashafa, who represents Lagos East in the Upper Legislative Chamber, were in the audience to cheer him on with chants of “incoming, incoming!”

Sanwoolu enjoys Tinubu’s backing, and is being galvanised by the Mandate Movement, a grassroots assemblage that answers to Tinubu.

All 57 Local Government Council Chairmen in Lagos State, have also endorsed Sanwoolu, who promised to restore work on a 25-year master-plan, once he is elected.