Lagos 2027: APC supporters protest candidate switch in Eti-Osa, seek Tinubu’s intervention

A radical of All Progressives Congress, APC, members and governmental enactment organisations successful Eti-Osa Constituency I, Lagos State, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu and the party’s enactment to intervene successful the contention surrounding the APC summons for the Lagos State House of Assembly up of the 2027 elections.

The entreaty follows the merchandise of the party’s authoritative database of candidates for the House of Representatives and Lagos State House of Assembly polls, which named Saheed Bankole arsenic the APC campaigner for Eti-Osa Constituency I.

The improvement has generated discontent among supporters of the incumbent lawmaker and Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Noheem Adams, who importune that helium emerged victorious successful the constituency superior election.

According to the results announced aft the superior conducted successful Ajah, Adams secured 7,638 votes, portion Bankole polled 1,225 votes. Election officials subsequently declared Adams the victor of the workout held crossed the constituency’s wards.

However, erstwhile the APC published its last database of candidates connected May 25, Bankole was listed arsenic the party’s flagbearer for the constituency, sparking protests among enactment loyalists and assemblage stakeholders.

Expressing their dissatisfaction during a objection astatine the Second Toll Gate country of Lekki on Thursday, members of the Noheem Adams Support Group, alongside enactment faithful, y...