Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode

The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has denied reports that the party has entered into a secret deal with Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to destroy the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.

The denial is coming as the APC in the state on Wednesday knocked the immediate past Commissioner for Energy, Mr. Olawale Oluwo for announcing his resignation from Ambode’s administration and defection from the APC to the PDP.

Oluwo’s resignation seemed to have given credence to speculations of a secret pact between Ambode and the PDP which would see the governor ditching the APC at the last minute and throwing his support behind the PDP as revenge against the APC for denying him a second term ticket.

Debunking the speculations during an interview with Vanguard, the Director of Media of the Jimi Agbaje Governorship Campaign Organization, Mr. Felix Oboagwina described the assertions as mere theories.

His words: “Those are conjectures, those are theories. It doesn’t necessarily have to be true but what can be said is that this was a marriage of convenience and it was bound to collapse and we are seeing the beginning of the end of that edifice that was put together just for a tyrannical purpose.”

“We have always known that his former party is one that does not stand for internal democracy neither does it stand for external democracy as manifested in the primaries that recently held which left a bitter taste in the mouth of members of the party and the public.

“So, it didn’t come as a surprise, it was just a matter of time. It indicates the beginning of the collapse of that marriage of convenience that was put in place just to remove the former government. It is just the beginning and we are expecting more. See what happened in Imo State also.

“We are expecting more of that to happen. When people come together in tyranny after destroying their common enemy, the next thing is that they begin to destroy one another. So, anyone who has common sense would now begin to run away from this drowning Titanic.”