The Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) has debunked viral new on the social media that it has sanctioned the replacement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu with the state Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola in the 2023 Governorship election in the state.<\/p>\n
The Secretary of the GAC, most powerful and highest political decision making organ in the state, Alhaji Mutiu Are disclosed this via a press statement released on Saturday, 29 January, 2022. <\/span><\/p>\n According to the press release, in possession of The Gazelle News.com, the GAC stated that it is not within its realm to choose a replacement for any Governor. <\/span><\/p>\n The statement said the news was spread to cause disaffection among party members and leaders noting that the GAC has not discussed the issue of second term. <\/span><\/p>\n \n Below is the full press statement from GAC: <\/span><\/p>\n The attention of the Governance Advisory Council has been drawn to a vexatious post circulating on WhatsApp purporting that the GAC, party leaders and stakeholders have settled for a replacement for Governor Babajide Sanwo-olu.<\/span><\/p>\n Ordinarily, we would not have dignified such an anonymous post with any response. <\/span><\/p>\n However, because of the possibility that some unwary persons may believe the words contained therein and interpret them as factual, the GAC would like to state as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n *That the GAC has not settled for any person to replace Mr. Babajide Sanwo-olu as governor.\u00a0 <\/span>Therefore, it is absolutely false and preposterous for anyone to suggest so.<\/span><\/p>\n 2. That the process of picking a Governor is clearly stated in the constitution. And contrary to the false impression the merchant of hate,\u00a0 <\/span>confusion, discord and disharmony wanted to create with the post, there is no discussion of second term ticket by the GAC.<\/span><\/p>\n 3. It should also be pointed out that it is not within the realm of GAC to engage in picking replacements for a governor. <\/span><\/p>\n 4. Importantly, the Independent National Electoral Commission has not signaled the commencement of the process for governorship election in Lagos State.<\/span><\/p>\n 5. Governor Sanwo-olu was elected for a 4-year tenure which is still ongoing. The matter of replacement of the governor does not arise and is patently subjudice. <\/span><\/p>\n Governor Sanwo-olu is doing a wonderful job delivering infrastructure projects for Lagos and working daily on making the state better for all its residents. <\/span><\/p>\n 6. Finally, we urge those behind this dangerous, dysfunctional and misguided post to desist forthwith.<\/span><\/p>\n SIGNED<\/span><\/p>\n Secretary, GAC<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC) has debunked viral new on the social media that it has sanctioned the replacement of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu with the state Head of Service, Hakeem Muri-Okunola in the 2023 Governorship election in the state. The Secretary of the GAC, most powerful and highest political decision making organ in the state, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1652,1618,2142],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-gac","tag-hakeem-muri-okunola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320"}],"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=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}