Bilesanmi Abayomi
Former Lagos State Governor and All Progressives Congress National leader, Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu may not be defeated in Lagos Congresses without Abuja conspiracies.
Going by the outcomes of 2021 Local Government election and the Swearing in ceremony of Tinubu’s santioned 20 Local Government and 37 Local Council Development Area newly elected chairmen revealed that Jagaban as he’s Nationwide known still call the shots and grassroots is still firmly in his grip.
Having the 57 Chairmen and about 345 Councilors and thousands of party members positioning to get appointment at Local Council areas may make it difficult to change the status in Lagos.
Another consequential stakeholders in Lagos State Politics is the National Union of Road Union Workers (NURTW), 57 Community Development Committees (CDC) and Community Development Association; Well over 3300 majority of them are under the direct control of the newly elected chairmen and the Union who are both loyal to Jagaban.
Other gladiators may not defeat Tinubu’s supporters in an open Congress except through repeat of 2017 Fuoad Oki parallel Congresses that will produce factional executive from Ward, Local Government and state Levels that may draw the APC National Caretaker committee
who has been alleged alongside some unnamed Ministers and some south West Governor’s to help changing the status in favoured of Consensus President candidate among the southwest Ministers.
Lagos4Lagos led by lead Vision founder, Abdul azeez Oyediran, Former SLG of Lagos State ogunsanya, Chief Fuad Oki, others has successful alert the APC National headquarters about the divisions and factions in the state. The group will need Abuja Politicians to wrestle party structure otherwise Tinubu’s will successful repeat the feat of the recently concluded Local Government Election where his preferred candidates won.