Ambode’s Kinsmen Threaten Protest Vote Against APC In 2019

Indigenes and residents of Epe and its neigbouring communities have threatened to dump the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State to register their disappointment over the truncated second term ambition of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, a son of the area.
Besides what they described as deliberate move to shortchange Epe by depriving Governor Ambode the opportunity to serve two terms like his predecessors, many residents who spoke to Sunday Sun expressed the fear that the inability of the govenor to secure a second term ticket was capable of truncating ongoing developmental efforts in Epe and the surrounding communities.
Ambode had penultimate weekend lost the ruling party’s ticket to re-contest in 2019 to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is believed to have had the backing of the party’s leadership in the state. The outcome of the governorship primary election thus put paid to the governor’s second term ambition.
This was palpable anger among the people in Epe town and other neighbouring communities of Imokun, Odo-Mola, Odo Iragunshi, who felt greatly disappointed by the ruling party in the state.
A chieftain of the party in Epe who craved anonymity said people of the community were yet to recover from the reality of what he termed a gang-up against the governor, whom he described as a harbinger of progress and development to the community.