NO SECOND TENURE FOR NIGERIA LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR-GOD FATHERS
Ambode’s
travails beyond Tinubu Sources privy to the developments
that had pitched Ambode
against his benefactor, Tinubu, Vanguard learnt were deeper than imagined and
appeared to many as they said that it was beyond Tinubu. “This is not a Tinubu
matter as many are saying, it is more than Asiwaju,” the source revealed as he
noted that Ambode was in a battle with the political base as symbolised by
Tinubu. “Tinubu is just a figurehead in this battle and is almost a prisoner in
this battle between the troops and Ambode,” the source revealed. Among the
charges levelled against Ambode included aloofness from the party and his
deliberate refusal to service the political structure as erected by Tinubu. “As
a major stakeholder I could call Asiwaju as governor, I could approach Fashola,
and if I sent him a text he would reply, but Ambode I don’t have his number,
and he is unapproachable.” Another source said, “yes it could be true that
Asiwaju has his issues with him, but I can tell you that Ambode’s problem is
with the party. If Asiwaju can manage him, definitely we cannot manage him,”
another source said yesterday. Vanguard gathered yesterday that on account of
the austere disposal of the governor towards his commissioners that some
members of the cabinet who had seen their time in the cabinet as not profitable
were planning to exit to contest for state and National Assembly elections.
“You can see that staying in the cabinet is not a guarantee for emotional or
material stability. Tinubu never dissolved his cabinet, Fashola did his
commissioners well, but it is not so with our oga. “I can tell you that up to
eight members of the cabinet are preparing to leave the cabinet for other
political aspirations,” a member of the state’s cabinet revealed yesterday.
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