The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership, CACOL has joined the call by Nigerians for clarifications from the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to state the true position of things on the accusation against Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, one of the governorship aspirants for Lagos State.
According to a statement signed on behalf of CACOL’s Executive Chairman, Mr. Debo Adeniran, the accusations by the Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, at a world press conference last Sunday were too weighty to be ignored.
It would be recalled that Ambode at the event disclosed that Sanwo-Olu was once admitted at Gbagada General Hospital, Lagos, for treatment of mental illness and also arrested for spending fake dollars in the United States.
Though Sanwo-Olu has denied the allegation, CACOL stressed that the people of Lagos deserved to get a better explanation from the party on the issue.
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The organisation explained: “This is because, democracy as a concept, is like a learning curve. And Nigerians have experienced so many unanticipated shocks from their leaders, who have been largely hampered by their health concerns while in office.
“And since we all agree that democracy is a means to certain beneficial goals to the people and the society, we insist that anybody that would aspire to a lofty and critical office like that of Lagos State governorship must not only be of a sound moral standing, his health condition is also key in performance expectation so as not to be a figure head in government.
“Though, it may seem that the incumbent governor was lost in a fit of anger to drop this weighty allegations against his opponent, CACOL as an impartial but responsible anti-corruption organisation, would advise that the leadership of APC as the ruling party in Lagos state and the country at large, cannot afford to play the ostrich over this matter of utmost importance to the electorate and generality of Nigerians.”
