2015 Lagos Guber Race: Ambode, GOS In Clash of the Titans [SEE POSTER]

It is no longer news that GOS (Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon) is among the many political advocates jostling to step into the shoes of out-going Governor Babatunde Fashola, SAN as the next first citizen of the state as well as Ambode. However, the battle of the titans is heating up seriously, as the race for the gubernatorial election for 2015 gathers momentum; there have been series of campaign smears among the intending aspirants and their supporters in Lagos.

“My dad is from Ipakodo, my mum is from Ituwolo, and my maternal grand mum is from Ibese. So, whichever way you want to push it, I am there, am not like some people who claims what they are not” GOS sighted this when it was said that the 2015 guber governorship has been zoned to Lagos East.

Senator Ganiyu Olarenwaju Solomon politically has risen through the ranks from being a local government chairman and presently a second term representative of Lagos west representing Mushin at the upper house. Senator Solomon who on his part intends to use Ikorodu, Lagos East as his spring board to lay claim to the Alausa Glass House said he has his ancestral roots in Ikorodu.

On the royal endorsement given Akinwunmi Ambode by the Oba of Lagos as the best man to collect the baton from Barrister Fashola, GOS said, “Let me say that in making the pronouncement, Kabiyesi was expressing his preference. He has also expressed his personal opinion.

We’re talking of a party now; I don’t know which part or provision of the constitution of the party says a traditional ruler endorses or can endorse. Whatever he says is his personal wish, which is not the same thing as the wish of the generality of the people. At the end of the day, we have a party structure.

Let me also tell you that he made the pronouncement at a time when we have not even concluded putting party structures in place. So, it couldn’t have been in consultation. Is it with the political leadership? Is it with the traditional leadership? We’ve had different opinions since then. We deliberately did not come out to say anything about it because we felt it was a political statement. We may have some perceptions, or interpret certain utterances, but the level we are now – for instance, in my party – we are in a new party, and the leadership of that party, from day one, in response to cynicism from some people, said, ‘look, we are guaranteeing internal democracy.”

Borrowing Wyclef Jean lyrics, political observers know that more often than not in a cosmopolitan city such as Lagos, it is always a situation of say-what- say- what anything can happen. This buttresses the rapt attention and controversies that are being generated every minute as event unfolds within the political sphere in the aquatic state.

With the normal last minute unexpected twist and turn, the relatively unknown aspirant usually ends up being the chosen and duly elected man, as it was the case with the incumbent governor where the political green horn, corruption and scandal free got the mandate to steer the ship of the state.

Political observers and citizens alike therefore are eagerly waiting to know who will eventually occupy the soon to be vacated and highly exalted seat of governor Fashola.