Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s hopes of a second term ticket will be formally dashed on Saturday, September 29, 2018, a top ranking aide of godfather Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, told Pulse in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
Tinubu’s rift with Ambode has been well documented.
“It is finished for Ambode. He is gone. He is a bad man”, this aide said without mincing words, even though he asked that his name be left out of this story because he hadn’t been authorized to speak on the record.
The phrase ‘AmboGone’ has been coined by Tinubu’s loyalists working behind the scenes to cripple Ambode’s second term bid, we have learnt.
This Tinubu aide would go on to disclose how preferred candidate ahead of the governorship primary election, Babajide Olushola Sanwoolu, has been told by Bourdillon (Tinubu’s famous home address) that he is the anointed candidate and handed all the funds to aide his cause.
Sanwoolu recently held a meeting with Muiz Banire, a former legal adviser of the APC who fell out with Tinubu because of Ambode.
“That meeting should tell you that Sanwoolu is making peace with everyone who fell out with Tinubu because of Ambode. We are all working towards a common goal at this point. Everyone is needed for this project to be successful. Ambode should abandon the race in his own interest and support Sanwoolu. We’ve told him all of this on numerous occasion. Why he hasn’t taken this advice is beyond me”, this aide added.
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