Lagos APC crisis: Ambode shuns journalists after meeting with Buhari

Governor of Lagos State Akinwunmi Ambode met behind closed door with
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, he, however, failed to address
State House Correspondents after the meeting.

The governor was believed to have visited the Presidential Villa to
seek President Buhari's intervention in the rift between him and the
National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu.

Ambode's quest for re-election recently ran into murky waters when
Tinubu and members of the Mandate Movement, which worked for his
election in 2015, withdrew their support for him.

After facing the APC screening committee in Abuja yesterday, Ambode
stormed the Presidential Villa, where he met with President Buhari.
The meeting lasted barely 20 minutes.

The Governor, who was his boisterous self, greeting and shaking hands
with everyone he met, both on his way into the Presidential Villa and
out of it, refused to address the press.

Ambode refused to talk to journalists, having signaled that he would
not entertain any question and briskly walked away into a waiting
vehicle.

His visit to the Presidential Villa appears to be a last-ditch effort
to save his political career.