Away From All The “Popularity” Noise, Inside Details As Party Leaders Furiously Battle Sanwo-Olu Over Cabinet List!

Charles Oyelesi

Behind all the well oiled public perception of widespread acceptance, insiders insist new Governor of Lagos state Babajide Sanwo-Olu is battling intense anger from leaders of his party- the All Progressives Congress.

Societynow.ng learned that the grouse is over allegation of been sidelined in the selection of the names of nominees for the positions of commissioners and special advisers recently submitted to the Lagos state House of Assembly by the Governor.

According to information that just came the way of societynow.ng the party leaders are angry that the list is populated by individuals who, though posses the required credentials, are neither party men nor contributed to the hard-fought fight that helped Sanwo-Olu secured party ticket or win the general election.

Societynow.ng gathered names such as Dr. Akin Abayomi, Head of Department of Haematopathology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Professor of Haematology, University of Stellenbosch, Cape and Rabiu Olowo, a Chartered Accountant (ACMA, CGMA), Certified Internal Controls Auditor (CICA), Certified in International Financial Reporting (ACCA Cert.IFR), and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) with an MBA from the University of Lagos and currently serves as an Advisory Council Member with the global ACFE headquartered in Texas, USA and others are being heavily frowned.

‘’ Though they will claim that these people are technocrats but I want to tell you that we have surplus and sound professionals who are party members who also worked tirelessly during the campaign for the success of the party in Lagos State. Yes, most of the Nominees are giants in academia and should be the pride of any party but the issues here are more than Academic qualifications. The main issue for consideration is compensation and recognition for work done and which those that compiled the list have deliberately thrown to the dogs…’’ a source stated in a report monitored in Lagos Reporters.

Further revelation has it that the nomination of Tunbosun, son of a former commissioner for information in the state, Dele Alake is also attracting huge flak for Sanwo-Olu from the party leaders.

“What does the 28-year-old young boy know in the politics of the state apart from the fact that they’re compensating his father?” is the retort being bandied about town societynow.ng learned.

Added information has it that, though, the aggrieved party leaders know that the cabinet list was handed to the Governor by more powerful figures behind the scene –the knowledge has done little or nothing to stem their anger.

‘’The reality is that fighting Sanwo-Olu is seen as fighting the powers behind the scene because the governor represents what all the stakeholders want to get their heart desires’’ a source pointed out.

Interestingly, insiders disclosed just like it happened in the early days of immediate past Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, the non-indigene sentiments are being wiped up against Sanwo-Olu as the underground fight goes from bad to worse.

‘’The talk is that Sanwo-Olu is from Ogun State in the bid to pitch the fiery Lagos is not a no man’s land campaign that Ambode (who is said to be from Ondo state) never recovered from against the new governor’’ societynow.ng gathered.

Insiders disclosed while virtually conceding that they might have lost out in the first round of the fight with the submission of the initial cabinet list to the State House of Assembly, the aggrieved party leaders waging the raging battle to ensure their interests are protected in the second batch in the midst of threats referencing the inglorious defeat that befell the Saraki political family in the last general election.