2015: Tinubu has no plans to impose any candidate, says Lagos APC

Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives

Congress, APC, has described insinuations making

the rounds that the former Governor of Lagos State,

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu plans to impose a governorship

candidate on the party ahead of the 2015

governorship election in the state as false,

unfounded, baseless and mere rumours.

APC in a statement yesterday by its Interim

Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said it was a

well known pattern in political de-marketing, which

the opponents of the party use to confuse and

deceive Lagos residents.

The party explained that at present, it merely zoned

the choice of its governorship candidates to the

Lagos East senatorial zone in line with the tenets of

justice, equity and fair-play.

According to Igbokwe, “The unholy rumour about

the imposition of a candidate when we are still far

from the process of gubernatorial primaries fits into

the sorry political calculation of the perennial losers,

who will cling to any straw to whittle down the

overwhelming support APC enjoys in Lagos.

We note that the rumour of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu

imposing one candidate or the other is not new and

had formed the outlandish and specious response

of the weakened and dying opposition in Lagos to

the unprecendented support Lagosians give to the

APC.

We note that it was once rumoured that Asiwaju

Tinubu had concluded plans to impose another

Muslim candidate in Lagos. We note that at a stage,

it was the rumour that the Asiwaju had concluded

plans to impose his wife as the next Lagos State

governor. Now, it is the rumour that Asiwaju Tinubu

has concluded plans to impose a certain aspirant

who is neither Muslim nor his wife just because the

party decided to zone the next governorship to

Lagos East when other zones had taken their turns

in governing Lagos.

“Lagos APC notes that there is a rich list of

competent, well qualified and worthy aspirants from

Lagos East senatorial constituency, who have

indicated interest in contesting for the governorship

of Lagos. We note that these rich assembly of

devoted party men have worked for the interest and

progress of the party in Lagos and at the national

level and the party owes them a free and

transparent process through which one of them will

emerge as the party’s flag bearer in Lagos.

”We therefore, counsel our members to remain

steadfast and continue to chart the progress of the

party. We enjoin the aspirants to continue their

mobilisation towards a free primary and be assured

that they will have a level playing field.”