Tasks party on consensus candidate
Emmanuel Thomas l Tuesday, May 20, 2025
LAGOS, Nigeria – The All Progressive Congress, APC Presidential Campaign Council, APC PCC met on Tuesday to suggest solution to the problem rocking the APC in Agege and Orile-Agege.
Members of the APC PCC in the axis called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call Speaker of the Lagos House of Assembly, Hon. Mudasiru Obasa to order.
In a 7-point agenda read to members of the party by Spokesperson of the PCC Orile-Agege, Bamofin Adetunji Akinyemi, the PCC said that Orile-Agege cannot be ruled by a paralyzed man who is bed-ridden in the hospital when there are outspoken, intelligent and qualified able bodied men and women.
The APC PCC spoke just as there are reports that Obasa resulted to impose a sick candidate with his son as Vice Chairman hoping for promotion in the case of eventuality, his son having failed to clinch the party ticket.
Members resolved to remain in the party
with a resolution to say no to imposition of candidates by Obasa and have collected over 2000 signatures to that effect all giving the red card to Obasa.
They called for a consensus that will fly the party ticket in the local government election.
“Let us sit together to agree to a consensus candidate”, the PCC said adding that while Obasa says he sues for peace, they are of the view that his move for peace should go beyond newspaper publication.
The residents had last week staged a protest to reject the names of candidates for the Agege local government and Orile-Agege local council development areas as Chairman and Vice Chairman respectively published by the state party for the incoming council elections.
At the Tuesday’ protest meeting of the PCC held in Agege, the residents said they have had enough of Obasa’s continued cornering of all political positions meant for the community to himself and his stooges.
The residents carried banners with inscriptions such as ‘Red Card, Obasa O to ge,’ and sang protest song ‘Enough is Enough, this suffering is enough, Tinubu rescue us.’
The Chairman, PCC for Agege and Orile-Agege, Kamardeen Sabitu said since 2018, the residents have been in the struggle to stop Obasa’s imposition of candidates on them.
“There is no true democracy in Agege. The struggle started years ago and we lost one of our leaders in 2018 during protest against Obasa. Eleven of us have been sent to jail,” he said.
” We don’t want one person to dictate to us Agege politics. I salute the courage of those of us saying no to political imposition in Agege. One person wants to take over political structure in Agege and we say no to it. We say no to dictatorship and political imposition in Agege,” he added.
He further said that while the group is not planning to leave the All Progressives Congress, APC, and appreciates the party leaders for their leadership role, they will not accept candidates imposed on them by Obasa.
“We would remain in the party and we appreciate our leaders. We are solidly behind President Tinubu. The movement of peace by Obasa should go beyond the pages of newspapers. He should call a meeting of leaders in Agege to discuss. We have gathered 2,000 signatures of residents of Agege and Orile-Agege and everyone is saying no to the imposition of candidates,” Sabitu said.
Other residents who spoke called on President Bola Tinubu to ‘rescue us ‘ from Obasa’s imposition,saying that political positions should be evenly distributed among interest groups rather than allowing only Obasa to corner all positions.
“We are still for Tinubu for the 2nd term but we don’t want candidates to be imposed on us by one in Agege. Every position should not be for one man alone. Obasa should leave us to choose by ourselves whom we want . We don’t want his candidate and his son,” said Chief Saheed Obadina.
Another resident, Omolola Abiodun said: “We don’t want the person they gave us in Agege as chairman. The man has been bed-ridden till now. This is not what democracy is about. We have better candidates. President Tinubu and his wife Remi should come to our rescue in Agege and Orile-Agege.”
” We won’t leave the party for anyone. We are not fighting the party or Tinubu, we are only telling the truth. We are gentle men and women. We are the ones voting. Tinubu should tell Obasa that enough is enough,” said Funmi Adedeji.
