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Three council chairmen in Lagos State have accused Obafemi Hamzat, deputy governor of Lagos State of disrupting the All Progressives Congress (APC) last Saturday’s primary election in the state, and imposing his candidates on the people.
The three chairmen of Epe, Eredo and Ikosi-Ejirin however, insisted that they would retrieve their mandates from the usurpers. In a Facebook post on behalf of his colleagues, the spokesman of the group, Niyi Saliu , who’s also the incumbent chairman of Eredo Local Development Area (LCDA) and an aspirant in the election said that the daylight robbery would not stand.
He said: “I appeal to our supporters to remain calm. We will do everything lawful to reclaim our mandates. We are persuaded that all hope is not lost, given the assurance by our leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu who hinted recently during the South-West meeting with governors that he’s not imposing anybody. We are excited that he has through that pronouncement deflated the ego of those dropping his name to perpetuate illegality in our party. Our leaders have also assured us that everything will be resolved amicably.”
According to the group, Hamzat, has been planning his 2023 political ambition of becoming the governor of Lagos State, and has been working with some politicians to impose chairmen that will be loyal to him. They said that there was love lost when the deputy governor alleged that they worked against his political aspiration in 2015.
They accused the deputy governor of hatching plans with his henchmen to scuttle the process once it’s clear that the tide was against them.
Expressing displeasure at the turnout of event, the group noted that instead of conducting another election, Hamzat assured his candidates that it was a done deal. “In Eredo, his coordinator for governorship project in 2015, Ismail Akinloye has received the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) form. In Epe, his personal assistant’s elder sister, one Suzan Olayemi Animashahun has been given the ticket, while in Ikosi-Ejirin, Wale Anamo From Ijebu-Ode, craftily added ‘Raji’ to his name to conform with Epe native name, he also received LASIEC form.”
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