Minister of Transportation and 2023 presidential aspirant, Rotimi Amaechi, met with the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Thursday in Lagos, Bola Tinubu’s political stronghold, to seek its support.

Mr Tinubu also has his eyes on the APC presidential ticket.

Mr Amaechi said he was in Lagos to seek support though he knew that Lagos is the base of Mr Tinubu.

Responding, Lagos APC chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, appealed to APC aspirants to tread softly and work together to save the party from collapse.

He urged the foundation members to assemble themselves and assess the critical situation that the APC had found itself in.

“Those of you that laboured to face the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), should assemble yourself again and critically assess the situation we now find ourselves in. Today, the APC is at a crossroads as we are transiting from one president to another,” Mr Ojelabi pointed out. “We all must get it so that what happened to PDP in 2015 will not be our fate.”

According to Mr Ojelabi, Lagos is the only state in the South-West that has consistently contributed votes to the progressives fold since 1999 when Nigeria returned to democracy.

“We have remained consistent in delivering Lagos state to the progressives because we have always voted according to conscience,” noted the Lagos APC chair.

The chairman promised to convey the minister’s message to the leadership of the party in Lagos.

“l am going to convey your message to the leadership of our party that today, I received an August visitor towards the tail end of April and this is his mission,” said Mr Ojelabi. 

(NAN)