Fresh waves of anger have swept through the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kosofe Federal Constituency, with party stalwarts and grassroots members openly questioning the statesmanship of incumbent lawmaker Hon. Kafilat Ogbara.
In a Kosofe Inside Out’s exclusive, critics accuse her of deliberately misleading her followers and trying to fracture the party by refusing to step down, despite the APC officially publishing the verified list of primary winners..
The controversy intensified after the Lagos APC officially released the list of successful candidates, confirming Mayor Dele Oshinowo as the authentic flagbearer for the APC at Kosofe Federal Constituency.
Oshinowo won the primary resoundingly with 18,614 votes, while Ogbara trailed significantly behind with just 5,150 votes
Despite this official, public validation by the party leadership, Ogbara has refused to concede. Local stakeholders state that her insistence on waiting for a different directive from Abuja is a deceptive tactic designed to keep her base agitated and feed false hopes.
“The party has spoken, the list is published, and the results are validated,” said an angry ward leader during a local gathering. “For her to continue telling her followers that the election didn’t happen is an insult to the thousands of members who stood in line to vote. This is not statesmanship; it is a lack of discipline from someone who only wants to be a leader, never a follower.”
Inside Kosofe, frustration is mounting over what members call a “disinformation campaign” run by Ogbara’s team. By continually claiming that primary declarations carry no legal weight, critics argue she is intentionally blinding her loyalists to the realities of party supremacy.
This refusal to align with the state executive’s decision has created a dangerous disconnect on the ground. Supporters of long-standing party loyalists—who felt bypassed when Ogbara was originally handed the ticket on a silver platter after defecting from the PDP—argue that her current behavior proves she lacks a deep, structural loyalty to the APC footprint.
In the face of intensifying backlash, Ogbara’s camp remains unmoved. They argue that local pushback and state-level publications do not supersede the ultimate ruling of the National Working Committee (NWC) in Abuja. Her supporters continue to claim that the primary process was fundamentally flawed and weaponized by a male-dominated political machinery to push out the state’s only female APC member in the House of Representatives.
However, with the official candidates’ list now out in the public domain, Kosofe party regulars are demanding that the national leadership sanction Ogbara for anti-party activities if she continues to reject the official hierarchy. The constituency now watches closely to see if Ogbara will finally submit to party supremacy or push her defiance to a breaking point.
By Lekan Lawal
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