By Bilesanmi Abayomi
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) have been opposition parties that the ruling party, the All Progressives Congress, and candidates have been campaigning against in Kosofe.
Particularly, the SDP started getting more prominent after the Independent Electoral Commission announced party candidates for Kosofe Constituencies 1 and 2 for the Lagos State House of Assembly race.
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The two candidates for SPD are former prominent APC members who were dissatisfied with the outcomes of the party’s May primary election.
The two SDP candidates include former councilors of Ward B, Ikosi Isheri Lcda and Moruf Adeleye, and FarmCity International Chairman Lanre Carew.
While Muruf has embarked on consultations and pasted posters and banners across Kosofe Constituency 2, his Kosofe 1 counterpart, Carew, has yet to post posters in his constituency.
However, has APC begun aggressive consultations with various community stakeholders, such as traditional and religious leaders, women and youth groups, this week they expressly told them not to be deceived by the antics of the Social Democratic Party, who come around soliciting for votes for
All Progressives Congress presidential candidates Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Babajide Sanwoolu, and Kadiri Obafemi Hamzat, respectively, were elected governor and deputy governor of Lagos. On the other hand, seeking out SDP state constituency candidates at the expense of APC candidates.
Speaking on Carew, Okanlawon said during consultations this week that the state governor, Babajide, and prominent leaders of the party have reached out to him. But he declined all entreaties.
The lawmaker who never felt threatened byPDP candidate, specifically charging his supporters and well-wishers to put a stop to the canvassing style of the SDP across the constituency.
Similarly, the Kosofe Federal Constituency candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Abdulwaheed Omotayo Odunuga, who has a strong mutual relationship with the majority of the APC stakeholders, is another candidate the APC is not losing sleep over.
Apart from demarketing the NNPP candidate, Abdulwaheed Omotayo, several posters and banners, among others, as well as publicity and awareness campaign materials running into the hundreds of thousands have been reportedly destroyed by the agents of the ruling party.