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“Let the people’s vote decide who will be the party’s candidate in 2019,″ Tinubu said at Ikeja Ward C, where he participated in the ongoing APC gubernatorial primary in Lagos.
Adeola’s position is contained in a statement by his media adviser, Chief Kayode Odunaro, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Monday.
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.
An indication to this effect came from Adeyemi Ikuforiji, a former Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, as he urged Epe indigenes to pray for Ambode’s successful clinching of the All Progressives Congress’ ticket at the governorship direct primary scheduled for September 29.
The Senator, who represents Borno South in the Senate, said this at the News Agency of Nigeria forum in Abuja.
Former Enugu North senatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Chinedu Eya, has offered to sell off his Lagos property worth over N53 million to purchase nomination and expression of interest forms for the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, if he will heed his calls to contest 2019 elections on the platform of the PDP.
Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo and Chairman of the Progressive Governors Forum, made the promise while speaking with newsmen at the end of a closed-door meeting of the governors held in Abuja.
In his remarks, the president described Osun as an APC state and urged residents of the state to continue to support the party.
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has told Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, that his position on the race for the governor’s seat in Lagos cannot be changed again, The Eagle Online has been told.
An All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Lagos State, Jide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday said he did not believe national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would ask him to back down on his ambition.
The Chairman of the chapter’s Elders’ Forum, Alhaji Tajudeen Olusi, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Ade Omole, the chapter’s leader, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that the President and members of the South West APC Caucus used the opportunity of the dinner to deliberate and strategise on the forthcoming Osun State governorship election slated for September 22.
Youths in the North Central zone of the country under the auspices of Coalition of North Central Youths have warned that any further unwarranted attacks on the President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will be met with strong reactions.
Tinubu made the remark in Lagos on Wednesday during the Eid-el-Kabir celebration, saying a strong foundation mattered in nation building.
The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, has urged Nigerians to eschew all forms of violence ahead of the 2019 general elections.
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday said that he was confident President Muhammadu Buhari would win the 2019 elections.
Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday arrived the ancient town of Daura in Katsina state for the All Progressives Congress grand rally for Saturday’s Katsina North Senatorial District bye-election.