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72 hours after alleging that Sanwo-Olu was a fraudster, Ambode backtracks and vows to support him

72 hours after alleging that Sanwo-Olu was a fraudster, Ambode backtracks and vows to support him

Barely three days after his world press conference where he claimed that fellow APC aspirant Babajide Sanwo-Olu was unfit to run for office, Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode has made an about-face at a just-concluded broadcast, conceding defeating and vowing to support him at the general elections.

Governor Ambode also described his decision to accept the result of the primary elections as “wholehearted”.

Dear Lagosians”, he said. “APC is a great party and the interests of our beloved state must always supercede that of any person or group. It is in this regard that I wholeheartedly congratulate the winner of the Lagos State APC Primaries, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and urge all Lagosians to support our party’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections and work for the success of our great party.”

On Sunday afternoon, Ambode had publicly called Sanwo-Olu out; describing him as lacking integrity and revealing that the hitherto dark horse had received mental rehabilitation in the past; also adding that members of the APC had been misled into supporting him.

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“Party leaders and even party members have been misled to think that he is a better candidate than myself…  I will not stand here on the mandate of Lagosians and then allow our great party, APC, to fritter away its opportunity by putting somebody that the opposition will easily take out for lack of integrity. 

“I have done everything in the last three and half years to serve people selflessly and to serve the poor. This particular aspirant is somebody that has been arrested for spending fake dollars in a nightclub in America, and he has been detained for months. He doesn’t have the competence to do what he is being propelled to do. This is somebody that has gone for rehabilitation before. The records are there at the Gbagada General Hospital we don’t want to go too far,” Ambode had said on Sunday.

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