By Bilesanmi Abayomi
The Lagos State Local Government Elections expected to take place around Third quarter, Q3 of 2025 has recently caused a major Setback for Opposition Groups in the State who were waiting for the outcomes of the Lagos State Local Government administrative law amendment initiated by the state Lagos State House of Assembly until the ruling party APC, leaders categorically declared that poll will be conducted in 20 LGs, and 37 LCDAs the state assembly earlier hinted will be changed to administrative council.
The supreme Court judgement and different pronouncements by the Attorney General of the Federation geared towards autonomy of the local government and believe that the National Assembly will amend the electorate act to empower the Independent Electoral Commission to conduct local government Election increased interest of the opposition parties to participate in the forthcoming poll.
Despite the accusations that always trailing INEC after the country general elections; opposition parties still have trust in the commission credibility, transparency and accountability processes compared to the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIECs), who many believed continually manipulate and rigged election results in favour of the ruling party, and the Government in power.
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Prominent opposition figure who spoke to us under the condition of anomity said it would amount to waste of money, energy, time and hard earned resources contesting an election that would be supervised by appointee ( LASIEC )of the Lagos State government who allegedly had entrenched interest in Local Government administration funds.
According to him, since LASIEC has been conducting Chairmanship election how chairmanship seats has been won by the oppositio in Lagos State. He added that the insignificant councilorship seats declared in favour of the oppositions was deliberate and intentional to just give credence to the compromised SIEC.
According to KosofePost findings, Regardless of this reccuring challenge over 24 years, some opposition Chairmanship and councilorship Aspirants whom recently campaign materials were destroyed waved it aside to intensify their consultation, publicity and awareness campaign and programs geared towards endearing to the electorates.
In the coming weeks, LASIEC must aggressively changed the general public perception about the commission and equally increased the participation of the oppositions by changing their hostility against commission to acceptance, and apathy to interest because credible election increased people’s participation in politics and Governance and promote Peace and collective growth and development.