Jimi Agbaje, a pharmacist and politician, has described
Peter Obi, the former vice-presidential candidate in the 2019 election, as his
ideal governor.
Obi was the governor of Anambra state between 2007 and 2014.
In an interview with Chude Jideonwo, a media entrepreneur,
Agbaje said he was impressed with Obi’s style of governance.
“He had always been my best governor even when I didn’t know
him,” he said.
“I’ve always said
that this was my best governor. He’s been the kind of governor I would want to
be. He tried to be himself. He was there for service, not self.”
Agbaje, who has unsuccessfully vied to be Lagos state
governor twice, also spoke of how he turned down an offer to be deputy governor
in 2007.
Agbaje was once a member of the now-defunct Action Congress
of Nigeria (ACN). In 2007, he left the party to contest for the Lagos
governorship election on the platform of the Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA).
He said the ACN had asked him to drop his governorship
ambition and become a running mate to another candidate in the party.
“In 2007, before I left the ruling party (Action Congress of
Nigeria), I was offered the deputy governor post, and I was told I couldn’t be
the governor,” he said.
“I asked them, ‘to whom?’, and of course they said, ‘to this
person’. And I said ‘but we are in the same senatorial district’.
“And the answer was ‘we have worked that out, we will say
you’re from this other senatorial district’.
“But then, my
attitude was ‘why not change it around and let the person who you want to be
governor say he’s from that senatorial district’.
“I’m saying this to say that it’s not about just power for
the sake of it. Because then, I could have been deputy governor.”
The 2007 Lagos state governorship election was won by
Babatunde Raji Fashola.
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