Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has no plan to endorse Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of the state, for a second term, according to a top member of the APC.
There have been reports that Tinubu would endorse Ambode ahead of the governorship primary election slated for this weekend.
But the source described the report as fiction.
Tinubu has reportedly fallen out with Ambode, with the Mandate Movement, a political structure loyal to Tinubu, endorsing Babajide Olushola Sanwo-Olu for the primary.
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Fifty-seven council chairmen and vice chairmen have also thrown their weight behind Sanwo-Olu, with Ambode told by grassroots mobilisers that he stands no chance of nicking a second term ticket on the APC platform.
“They just rose from a meeting and agreed to publish a news story that Asiwaju is set to endorse and anoint Ambode in the early hours of Saturday morning before the primaries,” the source said.
“There has been no meeting between Asiwaju and Ambode. This story is concocted and a lie from the pit of hell.
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“The aim of this is to misinform the electorate in Lagos and to cause confusion. A number of similar false publications are already in the works.”
Ambode has declared readiness for the primary amid claims that the APC hierarchy in Lagos is mounting enormous pressure on him to withdraw from the race and endorse Sanwo-Olu.
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