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By Lukman Olabiyi
The shocking defeat of the APC in Lagos State has begun to generate serious heat among party chieftains.
The party’s hierarchy are reviewing all strategies adopted for the presidential poll won by the LP candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, to ascertain where things went wrong.
INEC held that APC got 572, 606 while LP polled 582, 354 votes to win the state.
Reacting to the result, Dayo Israel, national youth leader of APC threatened political appointees in Lagos State who failed to deliver their wards for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu at the forthcoming governorship poll to quit.
He will battle other gubernatorial candidates to retain his office on March 11.
In a Twitter post, yesterday, Israel said political appointees in the state who fail to deliver the governor’s re-election bid in their respective wards should forget their appointments.
The APC national youth leader, in the now-deleted post, also called on the political appointees to begin a door-to-door campaign for Sanwo-Olu ahead of the election.
“Any appointee in Lagos who doesn’t deliver his ward on the 11th March should not bother coming to Alausa on the 13th. Everyone should drop their tinted car and start walking the street. Knock on your neighbours door, beg those you need to beg, make peace. Deliver for #Sanwoolu,” he wrote.
On investigation, many party members also accused some party chieftains and political appointees of greedy.
Many party members and stakeholders claimed that those who worked tirelessly for the party during campaign were short-changed, an action which killed their morale during the poll.
They accused some party chieftains and political appointees of leaving large on the sweat of the party’s foot soldiers.
Apart from the issue of short-changing, some party members also attributed the defeat to internal crisis rocking the party over ways and manners some aspirants who had laboured for party were denied tickets due to godfatherism.
