Two new competitors for the Lagos State representative under the All Progressives Congress' umbrella risen on Tuesday, fuelling hypotheses that all was not well with the occupant senator, Akinwunmi Ambode, and a national pioneer of the gathering, Bola Tinubu.
The applicants, who were previous chiefs in the state, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat and Jide Sanwoolu, were said to have professed to have Tinubu's sponsorship.
The officeholder senator, Ambode, was additionally said to have the APC national pioneer's support when he announced on Monday.
A visit to the gathering's state secretariat on Tuesday did not yield the natural product as the workplace was betrayed by party authorities.
Notwithstanding, a few laborers at the secretariat said the trio of Ambode, Hamzat, and Sanwoolu were probably going to challenge the governorship ticket in the immediate party essential charged to come up in about fourteen days.
In any case, reports from sources said the command amass controlled by Tinubu had supported Sanwoolu.
A source stated, "Sanwoolu is presently the man to beat. Did you see the Lagos APC Chairman, Tunde Balogun, and other enormous APC chieftains at Ambode's second-term assertion?"
Another source stated, "The senator (Ambode) got a leeway from Tinubu before picking the gathering's assignment frame."
An online news stage, TheCable, on Tuesday asserted 57 gathering directors faithful to Tinubu had met and promised their help for Sanwoolu.
The online paper additionally cited a partner of Tinubu, James Odunmbaku, as saying, "Sanwoolu is the approaching legislative head of Lagos."
Whenever reached, Tinubu's media assistant, Mr. Tunde Rahman, said the applicants should state when Tinubu embraced them.
He stated, "Would you be able to request that the hopefuls disclose to you when he (Tinubu) embraced them? Give them a chance to reveal to you when he supported them."
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