Tinubu Introduces Akinwumi Ambode As Fashola’s Replacement

The national leader of the APC and the former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu was said to have introduced a former Permanent Secretary/Accountant-General of the Lagos State Government, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to the state local government chairmen as his choice aspirant at a meeting in Lagos penultimate week. The opposition party has been in government in Lagos since the current democratic dispensation began in 1999 and all the governors have been Muslims.

A member of the House of Representatives and Chairman, House Committee on Diaspora Affairs, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, might be chosen as Ambode’s running mate.