The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic party, PDP, in Lagos, Jimi Agbaje has said that he will no longer vie to be governor of Lagos again.
Agbaje, who spoke on Sunday shortly after his All Progressives Congress, APC, counterpart, Akinwunmi Ambode was declared winner, said that having contested twice, he has reached a conclusion not to offer himself to be elected as Lagos governor again.
“I’ve done it once and this is the second time. I think I have fulfil my purpose. There are so many other ways one can serve his people, it doesn’t have to be by being a governor alone.”
Agbaje said he had to call and congratulate his rival, Ambode having realised that he truly won the contest based on the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.
“We are decent and highly responsible individual. The best we could have done in that circumstance is to concede defeat rather than resolve to violence which he says would not serve the interest of the people of the state.
“We believe strongly on the principle of the rule of law. We have conceded defeat, we have congratulated the winner and we are going to look at the results and processes and if we think that there is something substantial for us to ask question, we would go through the processes approved by the law,” Agbaje said.
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