The Governor\u2019s Advisory Council of the Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Saturday endorsed Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the party\u2019s governorship ticket in 2019.<\/p>\n
Sanwo-Olu is a former Commissioner for Training and Establishment in the state.<\/p>\n
SUNDAY PUNCH<\/em>\u00a0gathered that the six-hour meeting held at the Bourdillon, Ikoyi, Lagos, residence of the party\u2019s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n Tinubu also chaired the meeting attended by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, the Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila and Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, among others.<\/p>\n The Lagos APC governorship primary was earlier scheduled to hold today but was shifted by the party\u2019s national leadership for logistic reasons.<\/p>\n Earlier, supporters of the incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and Sanwo-Olu, who wore vests bearing images of their preferred candidates with inscriptions, had thronged the party state secretariat on Acme Road for a stakeholders\u2019 meeting called by the party leadership.<\/p>\n The supporters waited for hours and some later left the venue after it became clear that Tinubu would not be coming as many of them had hoped.<\/p>\n Many party leaders in the state had backed Sanwo-Olu for governor and moved against the second-term ambition of Ambode who had also expressed readiness to contest the primary.<\/p>\n Sources close to the party leaders told SUNDAY PUNCH that Ambode had refused a directive that he should step down during a meeting with Tinubu on Friday, saying democracy should be allowed to thrive by allowing him to contest the primary.<\/p>\n After the Bourdillon meeting on Saturday, a member of the council and party chieftain, Senator Anthony Adefuye, arrived in the secretariat to announce the council\u2019s decision to the eager stakeholders.<\/p>\n Adefuye said the council, the highest decision-making body of the chapter, had endorsed Sanwo-Olu for the party\u2019s governorship ticket, saying the decision was in the interest of the party and state.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cWe started the meeting at 10am and we left straight after the meeting not to keep you waiting. The GAC and other major stakeholders have endorsed Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n \u201cAsiwaju Bola Tinubu wants me to apologise that he is not here (secretariat) because as we were coming, he was bombarded in the house by various programmes of the party.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n After his short speech, supporters of Sanwo-Olu jubilated while Ambode\u2019s protested against the decision with songs.<\/p>\n It was gathered, however, that Tinubu would have been at the secretariat himself to raise Sanwo-Olu\u2019s hand as a mark of endorsement but for the report that Ambode\u2019s supporters had yet left the venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor\u2019s Advisory Council of the Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress on Saturday endorsed Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu for the party\u2019s governorship ticket in 2019. Sanwo-Olu is a former Commissioner for Training and Establishment in the state. SUNDAY PUNCH\u00a0gathered that the six-hour meeting held at the Bourdillon, Ikoyi, Lagos, residence of the party\u2019s National […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1618,1276,1621,1620],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-gac","tag-gov-ticket","tag-lagos-apc","tag-sanwo-olu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}