Babatunde Gbaamosi

The Peoples Democratic Party is not leaving anything to chance, after the party’s victory at the Edo polls which secured another 4 year tenure for Governor Godwin Obaseki. Four of the party’s governors have thrown their weight behind the PDP flagbearer, Mr Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi, to end

supposedly put an end to the dynasty of the godfather of Lagos politics, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Plans have been concluded to deal an early blow on  Tinubu way ahead of the 2023 elections as newly re-elected Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki, has committed to fully campaign for Babatunde Gbadamosi, the candidate of the PDP. Mr. Obaseki has vowed to phrase the Lagos East Senatorial Bye-Election as a referendum strongman of Lagos politics Mr. Tinubu who is self-styled as APC “national leader” and the “godfather” of Nigerian politics. Sources close to the governor confirmed that governor Obaseki has enlisted the full and joint participation of the governor of Rivers State, Mr. Nyesom Wike, on the mission. Other governors on board the project are Seyi Makinde of Oyo State and Okowa of Delta State.

The strategy to be employed is to mobilize resident from the South South and South East in Lagos to come out massively to vote for Gbadamosi, who will be going against the candidate of the APC, Tokunbo Abiru, a supposedly Tinubu imposition on the party. The thinking is that the momentum being carried from the Edo victory will embolden that segment of Lagos voters to come out and embolden their South West neighbours to also come out to deal a decisive defeat on Tinubu and his candidate.

Governor Obaseki is said to be particularly irked by the arrogance of Mr. Tinubu treating the upcoming election as a coronation for the APC candidate Mr. Abiru who up till now was assumed would simply walk into the office. However as far as Mr. Obaseki is concerned, all that changed on Saturday with his own victory over what he termed godfatherism. The plan right now is firm that Obaseki, Wike, Makinde, Okowa, will headline a massive rally for Mr. Gbadamosi, the candidate of the PDP. A Gbadamosi victoy in the senate race will raise his profile for a 2023 governorship election in Lagos state.