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As
politicians all over the country continue to jostle for positions that may be
vacant in 2007, the Lagos State Commissioner for Rural Development, Dr Tola
Kasali, has declared his intention to run for the governor’s seat in the
only Alliance for Democracy (AD) state.
A
source in the Justice Forum, the major political group in the state from where
the incumbent, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, emerged, told Daily Independent that
Kasali, at the Forum’s weekly meeting on Thursday 19 August 2004, asked
to be listed as an aspirant to the Alausa big seat. The source revealed that
the Forum had already opened a register of aspirants in which the list of
governorship aspirants was already long.
Kasali,
before becoming commissioner under Tinubu, was the executive chairman of
Ibeju-Lekki Local Government Council, a seat he won on the platform of the All
Peoples Party (APP), now All Nigeria Peoples Party, in 1999.
He
was convinced to join the Alliance for Democracy by Tinubu, who made him a
commissioner after his tenure ended at the Council in 2002.
He
had before 1999 been in the Primrose, the political group led by the former
Minister for Integration in Africa, Chief Dapo Sarumi. During the inconclusive
transition programme of the former head of state, the late General Sani Abacha,
Kasali was the Lagos State secretary of the unregistered Peoples Consensus
Party (PCP) before he joined the Congress of National Consensus (CNC).
Kasali,
a medical practitioner, according to the source, declared his intention with
the understanding of a consensus that the Lagos governor’s seat in 2007
has been zoned to the Lagos East Senatorial District.
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