Less than 72 hours after the change of governorship baton in Lagos State, strong indications have emerged that a humiliating probe is likely on the way for the immediate past governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, over alleged financial misdeeds.
A sympathiser of the former governor, however, told Saturday Tribune on Friday that the camp of the National Leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, believed to be behind the plot, would not dare.
“This one (Ambode) isn’t the one before him (Babatunde Fashola) who didn’t want to roll in the mud with pigs. Let them try it and see,” he said.
The shocking broadside from Ambode’s Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Tunji Bello, on his former principal, hours after the new governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu took over, is being read in the political circle in the state as setting the stage for the eventual demystification of the immediate past governor.
Ambode’s camp is already pounding Bello, a strong ally of Tinubu, as unprincipled, ungrateful and hypocritical.The faceoff is said to just be starting.
It was learnt that instead of the executive arm, now headed by Ambode’s former subordinate, doing the investigation, the state House of Assembly is reportedly more likely to conduct it in an indirect manner, claiming oversight functions.
The two candidates running to lead the next assembly in the state are the current Speaker and his deputy.
Under their joint leadership, there had been attempts to probe and impeach Ambode while still in office.
Hefty sums of money, it was learnt, would be declared as missing to make the former governor unattractive for any national assignment under the Buhari presidency which obviously has a positive disposition towards him.
Incidentally, Ambode’s administration, in its early days, conducted similar probe against Fashola, allegedly at the behest of Tinubu, who is now being linked to similar probe against his godson of 2015.
Although little details of the Fashola probe were in the public domain, the information released were damaging enough for the rising profile of the former governor who, a few days ago, stepped down as the Minister of Works, Power and Housing.
“This one (Ambode) isn’t the one before him (Babatunde Fashola) who didn’t want to roll in the mud with pigs. Let them try it and see,” he said.
The shocking broadside from Ambode’s Secretary to the State Government, (SSG), Tunji Bello, on his former principal, hours after the new governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu took over, is being read in the political circle in the state as setting the stage for the eventual demystification of the immediate past governor.
Ambode’s camp is already pounding Bello, a strong ally of Tinubu, as unprincipled, ungrateful and hypocritical.The faceoff is said to just be starting.
It was learnt that instead of the executive arm, now headed by Ambode’s former subordinate, doing the investigation, the state House of Assembly is reportedly more likely to conduct it in an indirect manner, claiming oversight functions.
The two candidates running to lead the next assembly in the state are the current Speaker and his deputy.
Under their joint leadership, there had been attempts to probe and impeach Ambode while still in office.
Hefty sums of money, it was learnt, would be declared as missing to make the former governor unattractive for any national assignment under the Buhari presidency which obviously has a positive disposition towards him.
Incidentally, Ambode’s administration, in its early days, conducted similar probe against Fashola, allegedly at the behest of Tinubu, who is now being linked to similar probe against his godson of 2015.
Although little details of the Fashola probe were in the public domain, the information released were damaging enough for the rising profile of the former governor who, a few days ago, stepped down as the Minister of Works, Power and Housing.
