Tinubu made his position known in a statement he personally signed on Sunday.
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The APC governorship primary in the state is scheduled for Monday (today).
This runs contrary to the impression created by a photograph that showed Osinbajo with Sanwo-Olu trending in the media.
Sanwo-Olu, a former Commissioner of Training and Establishments, expressed the view in a statement he issued in Lagos.
The governor is currently deserted as critical stakeholders in the state have pitched tents with his rival, Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The party shifted its governorship primary election to Monday.
Reacting to the purported endorsement of Babajide Sanwo-Olu by the GAC and shift of the party primary earlier scheduled for September 30, the Director General of AMSG, Hon. Hakeem Sulaimon, said the sudden turn of events does not augur well for democracy and unity of the party.
Senator Anthony Adefuye, a member the council, announced the endorsement to party members on Saturday, at a stakeholders’ meeting at the ACME Road state party secretariat.
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who is seeking a second term in office, has been at loggerheads with party stakeholders in the state.
Dr Obafemi Hamzat, one of the major contenders for the All Progressives Congress governorship ticket in Lagos, on Saturday, stepped down for Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
The claim, which was circulated by an online newspaper, had claimed that the governor was secretly perfecting moves to sack the council chairmen on or before Friday this week for allegedly supporting another governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, Babajide Sanwo-Olu
The group is made of ward chairmen from all the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Authorities in Lagos State
The decision put paid to hopes that the party would clear the coast for Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s bid by asking his challengers to step down from the race
The Vice-Chairman of AWAM, David Oriyomi, who made the assertion on Tuesday in Lagos while speaking with newsmen, said the city had become dirty due to deliberate attempts to relieve the waste managers of their job.