Former governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode has
spoken on his rumoured planned defection from the All Progressive Congress,
APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
There have been speculations in some quarters
that Ambode was disappointed he did not make the ministerial list President
Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Nigerian Senate.
Many had thought the nation’s leader would
compensate Ambode for losing his return ticket to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Buhari picked two nominees from Lagos and Ambode
lost out.
Those picked were ex Lagos Governor and immediate
past Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and the Managing
Director of Nigeria Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), Sen. Olorunnimbe Mamora.
But Habib Aruna, Ambode’s spokesman, in a terse
statement Monday night, said any information of his principal leaving the
ruling party was “totally untrue”.
While debunking the news as an attempt to malign
former Lagos helmsman, Aruna appealed to the public to disregard mischievous
persons and their sponsors.
He said: “We enjoin the general public,
particularly Lagosians to disregard the planted news by some faceless and
mischievous individuals in some unknown blogs, who are hell bent on creating
acrimonious situation, spreading fake news that the immediate past governor of
Lagos State, HE. Akinwunmi Ambode has dumped the ruling All Progressive
Congress (APC) for the PDP.
“The news is
fake. The former governor is firmly a member of APC, working in his own
capacity to see that the progressive ideas and the next level agenda of
President Buhari succeed”.
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