Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu may have exposed the rift between him and President Bola Tinubu that was healed on Sunday.
A picture of the President with the governor and the Lagos State Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the apex decision-making body of the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged yesterday.
It indicated an end to the rift which report has it that it stemmed from allegation that Sanwo-Olu partly funded the electoral activities of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate in 2023 election, Atiku Abubakar, against Tinubu who was then the candidate of APC.
The impeachment saga of the Speaker of Lagos House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa which allegedly had the governor’s hands in the plot to the President’s disgust further damaged their relationship.
There was also report that Tinubu was discontented with GAC members on the score of their role in Obasa’s removal as Speaker, which was later reversed by the state lawmakers themselves, and afterwards the court.
The latter declared the impeachment null and void at the instance of Obasa.
While report that Sanwo-Olu was no longer in his godfather’s good book subsisted in the realm of speculation, credence was given to it when the President snubbed him at the inauguration of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway.
Implicit in the governor’s statement while speaking to newsmen at Tinubu’s residence on Sunday was that the president fell out with him.
This, he hinted in a failed bid to deny the rumour.
“Did you see any discord? Can’t you see, even you are smiling and I am smiling? There is none.
“You know, there are people who believe they are more Catholic than the Pope. You know, there are things that, you see people, you know, they cry more than the bereaved.
“You know, father and son, are things that we’ll always ensure that, you know… there’s nothing at all. He’s my father, he’s my leader, and we are grateful that he’s given us the audience today to come in and say hello to him,” he retorted when asked about the rumoured rift.
“It’s all over now. All is forgiven,” the Chairman of the APC in the state, Hon. Cornelius Ojelabi also hinted at it in his own response.
