Former Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is set to meet with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday<\/p>\n
The meeting comes after both men met at the reception organised for President Tinubu by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on June 29.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, Tinubu publicly acknowledged Ambode\u2019s presence, saying, \u201cI\u2019m glad to see Ambode. Thank you Akin!\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting in Abuja is believed to be the final reconciation between both men after they reportedly fell out over Ambode\u2019s inability to get a second term ticket in 2019.<\/p>\n
Ambode lost the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to Sanwo-Olu in a direct primary election conducted across the state.<\/p>\n
While Tinubu publicly insisted he had nothing against Ambode as the decision to remove him was that of the party members, many believed that the then govenor\u2019s woes was as a result of his falling out with his erstwhile mentor and political godfather.<\/p>\n
The perceived return of Ambode to the mainstream of Lagos politics reportedly began with Sanwo-Olu\u2019s visit to his predecessor\u2019s home to celebrate his 60th birthday on June 14.<\/p>\n
Tinubu is reportedly considering Ambode for an appointment in his government, with the Friday meeting believed to be an avenue to conclude discussions on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode is set to meet with President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Friday The meeting comes after both men met at the reception organised for President Tinubu by Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on June 29. During the meeting, Tinubu publicly acknowledged Ambode\u2019s presence, saying, \u201cI\u2019m glad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peoplesforumonline.com.ng\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}