Why am I Receiving "sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root" using Ansible Tower?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Receiving the following error while trying to escalate to root using a local connection in Ansible Tower.

    sudo: effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root
    

Environment

  • Ansible-Tower >= 3.3

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