Ambode finally meets Sanwo-Olu to form unified campaign team

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, met on Tuesday.

The meeting held at the Government House in Alausa.

Among others in attendance were former Lagos West APC Vice chairman, Cardinal James Odunbaku and Femi Hamzat, a former commissioner for Works who stepped down for Sanwo-Olu ahead of the party’s primaries.

Meanwhile, Ambode and Sanwo-Olu have collapsed their campaign teams.

Ambode and Sanwo-Olu

They have floated a new group, Independent Campaign Group, ICG.

The groups, which harmonized their structures were the Buhari and Osinbajo Campaign Support Group, BOCSG, Ambode Mandate Support Group, AMSG and Babajide Olusola Campaign Organization, BOSCO.

ICG would be led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s former Chief Detail, Mr. Tayo Ayinde, who was until the merger, Director-General of BOSCO; Odunbaku would act as his deputy.

Others on the list include former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Mr. Moshood Salvador, who was named as Assistant Director-General from West Senatorial District; Wahab Alawiye-King will serve as Assistant Director General, Lagos Central Senatorial District, and others.