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, PUNCH exclusively reports.
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 a correspondents that her efforts did not yield any result as Tinubu was said to have “received her cordially and joked with her.”
It was learnt that at a point, Mrs. Ambode had to fight back tears.
“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.
Good for her
This means things are not going fine between Ambode and Tinubu
Exactly
God father tinubu well done
but ambode is Good governor
Datz y he should go-to pdp
Tinubu should allow him complete his tenure
Yes o
She did the best she can
Yes as a good wife
Eya i feel for them
Me too
wicked godfather
No be lie
this is serous
Tinubu already have brought out a candidate for Governorship, so I believe he can’t back down now.
Yeah
His performance will speak for him.
Datz just it
Ambode will still win
I believe you
Eyah sorry
Leave him
Dia is God o
Its pathetic
Ambode join another party
Tinubu dia is God o
apc is dead
Tinubu is not god
Ambode should stop acting like he cannot win without tinubu
Tinubu just want to divide apc
If I was ambode I would just go and join PDP and give them the win
The woman has done her best as a wife
Comment:maybe she change for the best
Comment:she have her reason for that
the woman has show the level of her understand to protect her husband
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