Angry Lagos APC members protest against Speaker, party leaders

The Vice Chairman of Agege Local Council and a chairmanship aspirant in the July 12, 2025, council election, Oluwagbenga Abiola, yesterday, said that he was pleased with the party’s decision to make Abdulganiyu Obasa the All Progressives Congress (APC) flagbearer.

Abiola, a political godson of the Agege APC leader and Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, stated this in Lagos. While reacting to reports in some quarters that he was being pressured to shelve his ambition, Abiola said that he would remain ever and be eternally grateful to Obasa for being his political benefactor.

Meanwhile, members of the ruling APC in Ojokoro LCDA, Lagos State, yesterday, staged a protest over alleged plot by the party leaders and Speaker Obasa to impose candidates on them for the council election.

The APC members, during the protest, expressed their grievances, chanting, “He is not part of us, no room for strangers in our LCDA, “Elders and leaders are to build things and not destroy,” and “We want an indigenous leader to lead us, not a stranger.”

One of the leaders of the protest, Olusegun Akinoso-Olawaye, said that the party leaders should not ratify any imposed candidate. Akinoso-Olawaye said: “Don’t place a leader on people. Let all the aspirants go to the field in a free and fair primary. We are not for violence at all, we are APC members and we will not allow imposition

“So many of these aspirants have been spending their hard-earned money for the party. So, we cannot scuttle their aspirations; we cannot leave our house for strangers to lead.”