{"id":30753,"date":"2014-08-31T04:29:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=30753"},"modified":"2014-08-31T04:29:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T03:29:51","slug":"2015-solomon-meets-lg-bosses-gets-groups-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2015-solomon-meets-lg-bosses-gets-groups-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"2015: Solomon meets LG bosses, gets group\u2019s backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A frontline governorship aspirant in Lagos state and chieftain of the All<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Progressives Congress, APC, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon popularly<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">called GOS has held discussions with top officials of local governments in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">all the 57 council areas of the state.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The meeting which was held to seek the support of the council bosses for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">his gubernatorial aspiration was closely followed weekend by the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">declaration of total support for GOS by a socio-political organization,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Patriots Face. The group without thousands of membership in all the 57<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">council areas of the state declared their support for the Senator\u2019s<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">aspiration at a ceremony in Mushin on Friday.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A statement by Solomon\u2019s campaign team on Saturday said \u201cthe meeting<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">midweek with vice chairmen and secretaries of all the local councils in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagos was aimed at mobilizing them for the Senator\u2019s governorship ambition<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">which has been receiving widespread support across the state. He urged the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">gathering to buy in and take ownership of the drive to put behind us the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">culture of imposition and enthrone internal democracy in our party, a move<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that will ultimately entrench participatory democracy in the state and our<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">nation at large. He also canvassed the support of the senior LG officials<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for his candidacy at the party\u2019s primaries.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At a well attended and colourful ceremony in Mushin weekend, the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">leadership and members of Patriots Face from the 57 council areas in the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">state endorsed Solomon as the best candidate to fly APC\u2019s flag in the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">February 2015 governorship election.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reacting to the two developments, Solomon who is currently the Senate<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">minority whip in the upper chamber of the National Assembly said he is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">taking his consultations and mobilization wide and deep to various<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stakeholders at the grassroots \u201cbecause they matter and we recognize their<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">importance to our aspiration.\u201d The former Mushin local council chairman<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stated that \u201chistory and dynamics of politics have made it compulsory for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">our party to imbibe internal democracy, which is what the people are<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">saying right now and as such we have to engage in rigorous mobilization of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the people who will ultimately decide our fate by voting for us.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While commenting on the level of support he enjoys from a national leader<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">of APC and former governor of the state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as well<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">as his successor, incumbent governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, GOS who is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">also a former member of the House of Representatives described Tinubu as<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">his mentor. According to him \u201cAsiwaju&#8217;s intellectual capacity is high and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stands by whatever he believes in and gives all to it. He&#8217;s a role model.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He came in and like a colossus he took over the political space not only<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in Lagos and South West but the entire nation.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Solomon also described Governor Fashola as a good friend and<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">cool-headed person, who he said had carried the flag of the party very<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">well.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He however added that &#8220;all this does not translate to imposing me, because<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I expect them to have the same relationship with a lot of members of our<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">party. So, they would rather allow us to go to the primaries and let the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">most popular candidate emerge.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frontline governorship aspirant in Lagos state and chieftain of the AllProgressives Congress, APC, Senator Ganiyu Olanrewaju Solomon popularlycalled GOS has held discussions with top officials of local governments inall&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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