Jimi Agbaje Reacts To Plans To Impeach Governor Ambode, Blames It On Lagos Cabal

Eniola Olayemi

Governorship candidate of the PDP in Lagos, Jimi Agbaje has reacted to the plans to impeach Governor Akinwunmi Ambode by the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Ambode is being accused of incurring expenditure from the 2019 budget without presenting it before the house.

Reacting to the move to impeach him, Jimi Agbaje who lost to Ambode in the 2015 governorship election said the move is being dictated by the cabal in Lagos.

“I received the news of the impending impeachment of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode with a lot of reservation, especially with its timing and motive. This is just 19 or so days to the federal elections and the governorship, a fortnight thereafter. So the natural questions to ask are: Why this haste? And what is the motive?” the statement read.

“Of course, the way Lagos politics has been structured over the last two decades, government actions are often dictated by open and covert objectives.

“That the legislators are hinging their action on the purported delay of the budget is simply a smokescreen for a very shameful undertone that the honourable assembly members will not want to make open. They are yet to tell us their actual motivation for this superfluous move to shame the governor.

“Governance has ground to a halt owing to the schism between the two arms of government, both of which are dominated by APC. From all indications and from the findings that I have conducted, the action of the lawmakers is nothing but self-serving as dictated to them by the cabal ruling the state.”

Jimi Agbaje urged the people of the state to choose his party as the best alternative to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

“The situation, in which we Lagosians find ourselves, calls for prayers. But more than that, the people of the state should take the practical step of voting PDP into office as the viable alternative.”