Intrigues in Lagos APC over East Senatorial bye-election

Except there are last-minute changes or some intervention, former Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Polaris Bank, Mr. Tokunbo Abiru, will be ratified as the sole and consensus candidate for the forthcoming Lagos East Senatorial bye-election on the platform of Lagos State chapter of All Progressives Congress . The party’s primary election is scheduled for Thursday, September 3, 2020, at the party’s secretariat on Acme Road, Ogba.

Salami was quoted to have said that party elders, including APC national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, had agreed on the choice of Abiru, who recently resigned as CEO of Polaris Bank to contest the senatorial bye-election. Salami also said Abiru had been successfully screened at the party secretariat and that other aspirants voluntarily stepped down in agreement with the party. He was quoted to have boasted that Abiru is the consensus candidate of the party.

When contacted for further clarification, the state’s chairman of the party, Chief Tunde Balogun, confirmed that Abiru is the only aspirant that obtained nomination form for the senatorial bye-election, but that he was not yet a candidate until the party conducts its primary election “where he would be ratified as our consensus candidate.”

Alebiosu’s position also put a lie to the insinuation that GAC did not endorse Abiru. However, another leader from Lagos East zone and member of GAC, an octogenarian, Chief Reuben Olorunfunmi Basorun also confirmed that the council’s endorsement of Abiru was an internal arrangement, which does not stop the party from conducting the primary in accordance with the party’s constitution.”

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