Billionaire oil magnate and Chairman/CEO of Forte Oil, Mr. Femi Otedola, has accepted to run for the governorship seat of Lagos State under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
The party reportedly offered him the ticket of the party, and he wholeheartedly accepted, according to The Boss.
Otedola will therefore, in the long run square up against whoever the All Progressives Congress (APC) throws up as its party candidate as it is still embroiled in battle of supremacy between the loyalists of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.
In a follow-up story on Tuesday, which was titled: ‘Otedola Never Planned to Run Against Ambode,’ the paper gave further details.
It reported that following his decision to key into the plans of the PDP to wrestle power from the ruling party in Lagos State, in the forthcoming 2019 Governorship election, as their flag bearer, Otedola, never planned to run against Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the current Governor of Lagos State.
Sources told the paper that Otedola had his eyes on the 2023 Gubernatorial election when Ambode may have concluded his tenure because of the promise he made to him (Ambode) that he would never run against him.
However, as a result of the crisis in the Lagos All Progressives Congress (APC) where Ambode seems to have been dumped by his political godfather, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Otedola decided to bring his ambition forward.
He decided that if Ambode’s godfather has dumped him in preference for another aspirant, he is free from the promise not to contest against Ambode, and he could run against whoever Tinubu brings up as the party’s flag bearer.
The paper said the oil magnate confirmed his acceptance of the offer of the PDP to be their flag bearer in the 2019 Lagos governorship election.
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