As the ruling party All Progressives Congress, APC prepare for its national convention and congresses to elect new party officers, the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has told the incumbent chairman of Lagos chapter, Henry Ajomale and others who had spent eight years and above not to seek re-election.
Tinubu made the declaration today at the state secretariat in Ikeja while addressing party members at a stakeholders meeting.
He said the decision was to allow fresh people to occupy party offices at the ward, local government and state levels with a view to taking the APC to the next level in the state.
The national leadership of the party had recently fixed May 2,5, 9 and 14 for ward, local government, state and national congresses respectively.
The decision of the party to allow congresses followed appeals by President Muhammadu Buhari who had opposed the approval of tenure elongation for party executives at all levels.
The former governor was reported to have said, “We fought hard against tenure elongation, and now we are going to have our congresses.
“Some of you who have spent two, three, four terms as ward, local government and state executive members, it is time to go.
“We thank you, we appreciate you. But we want you to step aside. It is time for those who have been crawling for years to walk. It is time for the youths to take over.
“I mean if you have spent eight years, twelve years, you have tried. You should give us chance, let us now have new people.”
Tinubu, however, said party executive members who had only spent one term were free to seek re-election, provided they did not have records of misconduct in office.
