Lagos APC leaders deny imposition claims in council primaries

The leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC Agege and Orile-Agege chapters in Lagos, have pushed back at claims that chairmanship and councillorship candidates of the party in their areas for the forthcoming council polls in the state scheduled for July 12, 2025 were imposed.

The party primaries for all 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas in respect of chairmanship and councillorship were held on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at the party’s state secretariat.

Based on delegate voting and consensus, not few of the results of the exercises released by the Election Committee chaired by Babatunde Ogala in which the party chairmanship candidates in all the councils except Yaba LCDA and Mainland LCDA were named have been engulfed in controversies that border on alleged impositions and claims that the election processes were flawed, skewed in favour of some aspirants and arranged to achieve predetermined ends.

Agege and Orile-Agege where Alhaji Tunde Azeez and Idowu Akinola emerged as the ruling party chairmanship candidates respectively have their share of the imposition claim.

On Tuesday the leadership of the party in both councils after a meeting held at the Agege Local Government Secretariat issued a communiqué with which they refuted the imposition claim.

Signatories to the communiqué are: Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashir Obasa, the lawmaker representing AGEGE 02 in the state House of Assembly, Alhaji Jubril Kareem, Member House of Reps, Dr. Wale Ahmed, Special Adviser to the Governor, Afolabi Tajudeen, Commissioner for Establishment and Training, Afolabi Ayantayo, APC APEX LEADER, Alhaji Safari Adaranijo, and First Executive Chairman AGEGE LG, Alhaji Genius Owolabi Dada.

Others are: Executive Chairman AGEGE LG, High Chief Ganiu Kola Egunjobi, Executive Chairman Orile-Agege LCDA, Sunday Johnson Babatunde,
Ex-Chairman, LAHASCOM, Richard Akin Osungboye, ex-APC Party chairman, Alhaji Ayoni Shittu, APC AGEGE LG Chairman, Alhaji Tunde Azeez, APC ORILE-AGEGE LG Chairman, Salau Olaniyi, ex- council Chairman and ex- Member House of Assembly, Rotimi Adeshina, APC LEADER, Elder Sunday Ajide and ex/ House of Assembly member, Ashimiu Adebayo.