Governor of Lagos State Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (middle); National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (2nd left) and former Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio (left)
Speculations that national leader of the ruling APC Bola Tinubu might deny Governor of Lagos State Akinwunmi Ambode a second term re-election have been dismissed by a top official of the state government.
The governor and Tinubu, a former governor of the state, are reportedly at loggerheads, with some suggesting that Ambode was planning to join the opposition PDP.
But calling the speculations “work of political jobbers,” the source said it was impossible for the “the best governor in Nigeria to join the PDP when their chairman just joined APC.”
“There is no rift. There can’t be a rift because it is not possible for the governor to join PDP, for what? It is just imaginations of political jobbers who are trying to feed the public on lies. That is what they do,” the official told The Guardian.
“How can the best governor in the country join another party. It is not feasible, it is not considerable and it cannot happen. I’m telling you emphatically that there is no rift between governor Ambode and National leader of APC Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”