- A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Ambassador Abayomi Mumuni, is set to contest for a senatorial seat in the state
- Mumuni is a former chieftain of the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), and an ally of the president
- He might contest the APC ticket with Senator Oluremi Tinubu, who is a two-term member of the upper chamber
A chieftain of the ruling APC in Lagos, Ambassador Abayomi Mumuni is set to declare his intention to contest the Lagos Central Senatorial District against Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
Mumuni, a former chieftain of the Congress for Progressives Change (CPC), is an ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, as both politicians were in the CPC before the 2015 merger with other parties that gave birth to the APC.
Though Senator Tinubu has not formally declared her intention to return to the upper chamber, many of her supporters, including some party leaders, have endorsed her re-election bid for the third term.
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The decision notwithstanding, Mumuni has vowed to contest against Tinubu during the state primary election of the APC later this year.
Mumuni had earlier bemoaned the unilateral decision of some of the APC party leaders to endorse Tinubu's 3rd term bid “at the expense of other interested party members.”
Mumuni, while speaking on the purported endorsement, accused the leadership of the defunct ACN in the current ruling party of not respecting the merger which they signed before the 2015 general elections.
He also alleged that members of the defunct CPC in Lagos have been marginalised and abandoned at the state and national levels.
Mumuni said he believes he could have defeated Senator Tinubu in 2011 if he had not jettisoned the senatorial ticket for the gubernatorial slot in the interest of President Buhari.
“I changed my intention because there was no governorship candidate for the defunct CPC in the South-west, except Barrister Shittu in Oyo state. With me, we were the only two CPC gubernatorial candidates that supported President Buhari’s bid to become Nigeria’s president. My withdrawal from the senatorial election gave Asiwaju’s wife an edge in the election.
“My mandate has always been the Lagos Central Senatorial District, which is my constituency. I am a son of the soil. I contested against Obanikoro and Ade Dosumu in 2003 and 2007. Come 2019, there are no two ways to it, I am going to contest against her and I will defeat her in the primaries. Even if I don’t get the ticket, we will go back to CPC and I will still defeat her,” he said.
It was gathered that since Mumuni expressed his readiness to challenge Senator Tinubu, he has been under pressure by his supporters to declare his ambition and start campaigning in earnest for the 2019 general elections.
Mumuni was the 2011 gubernatorial candidate of the defunct CPC in Lagos.
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Meanwhile, a governorship aspirant in Cross River state, Barrister Eyo.O. Ekpo, has called on Nigerians to police their votes in the 2019 general elections.
He made the statement at the party's national headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, August 29, when he picked up his expression of interest and nomination form to contest for governorship in Cross River state.
Ekpo, a former commissioner in the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), said the 2019 election is “more than selling out our votes or going to thumbprint and go home.”
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