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ver before the October 2018 All Progressives Congress’ (APC) governorship primary election in Lagos, the relationship between the executive arm of government led by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and the legislature led by Mudashiri Obasa, the speaker, had been that of mutual suspicion. Governor Ambode had refused to heed the directive of the powerbrokers in the state not to seek re-election for a second term in office. He had insisted on contesting the primary election which had to be shifted three times before it eventually held on October 2, 2018. The top echelon of the APC in Lagos, led by Bola Ahmed Tinubu, a former governor and chairman of Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC), the highest decision making body for the party in the state, simply viewed Ambode’s insistence as affront. Ambode went ahead to lose the governorship ticket to Babajide SanwoOlu, the preferred candidate of the GAC and majority of the party’s faithful in Lagos.
From that moment, it became obvious that the governor was not going to have it smooth anymore. Majority of the 40-man state House of Assembly are Tinubu’s loyalists and hold allegiance to him. So also are several appointees in Ambode’s cabinet.
It was no surprise therefore, that amid the primary election’s crisis, Ambode’s deputy, Idiat Adebule, some commissioners and special advisers refused to swim along with their boss. Not even a fence-mending broadcast on October 3, 2018
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BDLife Sunday 03 February 2019
LAUNCH OF PROJECT 100: Simbi Kesiye Wabote (l), executive secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), decorating Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, minister of State for Petroleum Resources, with the commemorative pin of Project 100, an initiative that will drive transformation in the oil and gas sector industry. The event took place in Abuja.
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obel Laureate, Wole Soyinka; human rights activist, Olisa Agbakoba; son of former Prime Minister, Abdul Jalil Tafawa
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via state-owned Lagos Television, in which Ambode accepted defeat and declared it was time for various political actors in APC to join hands and move
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2019: Any hope for APC in Zamfara?
of the Nation (CJN) Walter Onnoghen. This was disclosed in a communiqué issued at the end of the emergency national consultation of the Third Force leaders and allies in Lagos. A copy was made
available to BDSUNDAY Saturday by Anthony Kila, spokesperson for Alliance for Defence of Democracy (ADD). Other members of the coali-
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