Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship aspirant, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has accused Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of making false claims about him.
Ambode told a world press conference on Sunday afternoon that Sanwo-Olu was unfit for the office governor having been arrested and detained in the United States for spending fake dollar notes in a nightclub.
He also claimed the aspirant had undergone rehabilitation for an undisclosed condition at the Gbagada General Hospital.
“This particular aspirant is somebody that has been arrested for spending fake dollars in a nightclub in America, and he has been detained for months,” Ambode said.
“He doesn’t have the competence to do what he is being propelled to do. This is somebody that has gone for rehabilitation before. The records are there at the Gbagada General Hospital.”
But Sanwo-Olu said in a statement that none of the governor’s claims was true.
“His allegation that I was arrested for spending fake dollars at a nightclub in the United States was untrue,” he said.
He claimed that Ambode was aware that he travelled to the United States in August. He said he would not have been able to do so if he truly had committed the crime.
“That the governor claimed that I underwent some unidentified type of rehabilitation at the Gbagada General Hospital was also shameless and untrue,” Sanwo-Olu added.
Ambode’s Sunday press conference came less than 24 hours before the APC governorship primary election in the state.
Sanwo-Olu has been endorsed by state’s lawmakers, chairmen of local councils and Ambode’s estranged godfather and APC’s national leader Bola Tinubu.
