NAN

Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Idiat Adebule, on Tuesday, abandoned her boss, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.

The deputy governor, in the thick of the APC gubernatorial primary, announced her support for Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the perceived anointed candidate of the National Leader of the party, Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Adebule told newsmen at Ward A and D,  in Iba Local Council Development Area of the state where she participated in the primary that she would endorse the candidate chosen by the party.

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“The party has chosen a man and it is that man that I will support and follow,” she said.

NAN reports that when the deputy governor arrived at the ward, some of her aides came with  Sanwo-Olu’s posters and banners.

At the ward accreditation started at 10:36a.m as party electoral officials arrived.

There was no formal announcement of the results, as the accreditation was brief.