Lagos APC in Chaos Over State Primary Elections

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, is not all pleased with the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, as a result of Fashola’s conduct before and during the just concluded APC governorship primary in the state.

According to PUNCH, Tinubu became angry when Fashola initially told him that he did not have a particular candidate for the APC primary only to emerge much later with a former Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, Mr. Olasupo Shahore, as his (the governor) preferred candidate.
According to a source close to Tinubu, he was not only angry with Fashola, but was “disappointed in him.” He said anger was a mild word to use in the situation, noting that the governor had a right to have a candidate. He said all Tinubu wanted was to know his mind – But Fashola kept Tinubu guessing. He told him he did not have a candidate. Though there were signs and media reports that he was backing someone, but Tinubu could not be relying on media reports about the governor in a situation like this, Punch reports.
Fashola who was absent from the primaries, was said to have gone to bury his uncle – however, a source claims that the issue on ground was the fact that Fashola was unwilling to fund the campaign of a candidate he considered as an enemy and that Fashola was not happy with the conduct of the primary.
And according to an aspirant, who asked spoke to Punch on anonymity:

“The way things are going, there may be mass defection from the APC as even the governor may dump the party soon. Tinubu has emasculated all of us, including Fashola who is not even being given a say. “We planned to shun the primary in protest after the party refused to postpone it following our request but we all agreed to come so that we can observe it properly in case the matter is taken to court.
“In any case, the dubious manner in which the state congress was carried out is already at a Federal High Court so there is a high possibility that the result of this event will be nullified.
“Only Tinubu has the list of the delegates and most of us were not able to reach out to them. This is most unfortunate.”

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