Akinwunmi Dapo Ambode

That much was clear in 2019 when Tinubu pushed out Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode backing Babajide Sanwo-Olu in his stead...

It was a script borrowed from APC national leader Bola Tinubu who pushed out incumbent Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode ahead of the 2019 elections leaving the path clear for a more pliable candidate (AC Vol 60 No 4 Governors get set)...

First-term incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode found this out the hard way (AC Vol 59 No 7 Return of the Jagaban)...

Bola Tinubu the state's APC godfather of godfathers again proved his power by undermining the sitting APC governor Akinwunmi Ambode during the primaries for daring to challenge his authority and he seems ready to keep the state firmly in the APC column...

The old camp led by Tinubu Osinbajo and Akinwunmi Ambode the present Governor of Lagos State still held a congress at the APC secretariat proceeding as nothing had happened...

Added to which the Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode has become wildly unpopular...

Next month the APC's Akinwunmi Ambode will take over as Governor from Babatunde Fashola who has an impressive record of managing state services sprucing up the city planting trees and unblocking some of the worst traffic jams...

It seemed that Oba Akiolu feared that the APC's lacklustre candidate Akinwunmi Ambode chosen by Tinubu could lose to the PDP's slicker Olujimi Kolawole Agbaje who had established a sizeable independent following...