In the messages, they implored the people to vote for the Labour Party in the National Assembly election, but vote for Babatunde Fashola as governor of the state.
One of such text messages alleged that a former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, forced Fashola to enter into a blood covenant to get his loyalty.
Another one alleged that Tinubu had tried to impeach Fashola because of the latter’s refusal to pander to his whims and caprices.
Others urged Lagosians to vote “to liberate” Fashola and Lagosians from the vice-grip of the former governor.
In a reaction, Tinubu had spoken with aviation reporters at the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos on Wednesday, denying the claim by the group that he entered into a blood oath with the state governor.
He had denied the allegation that there was a rift between him and his successor.
He said he would not allow the agents of the Peoples Democratic Party to create a conflict between him and Fashola.
He had said, “Have I ever appeared to you to be a person in oath and cultism? We held a stakeholders’ meeting where we all reaffirmed our loyalty to our party and we said in no way shall we take anybody who had been with our party and who now crossed over to either Labour Party or any other party for that matter and create prostitution kind of an environment in our party.
“There is no way we would take them back and we would not allow a PDP agent or a Labour Party that we know to divide us.
“We don’t want political traders or scavengers on the corridors of power. If you are a democrat, you should be, you cannot take both ways, it is impossible.
“It is their tradition, particularly my noisy neighbour, to go into oath-taking and their party, to go into blood oath, kola nut oath.”
Fashola had earlier in the week alerted Lagosians to the text messages and urged them to discard them. He affirmed that there was no rift between him and Tinubu
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