{"id":6466,"date":"2025-05-16T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=6466"},"modified":"2025-05-16T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T15:51:00","slug":"lagos-council-chair-backs-obasas-son-as-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/05\/16\/lagos-council-chair-backs-obasas-son-as-successor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos council chair backs Obasa\u2019s son as successor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Executive Chairman of Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State, Ganiyu Egunjobi, has thrown his weight behind the emergence of Lagos Assembly Speaker Mudashiru Obasa\u2019s son as the All Progressives Congress chairmanship candidate for the upcoming council polls, declaring that the young man \u201cdeserves to succeed me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egunjobi, in an interview with select journalists, addressed the mounting controversy that followed the May 10 APC primaries, dismissing claims of imposition and defending the legitimacy of the process that produced candidates across local government areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the reactions in those quarters where they are shouting \u2018imposition\u2019 is in the character of politicians in our clime,\u201d Vanguard quoted him as saying on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure if the results had gone their way, they would be lavishing praise on the electoral process. The election committee put up a good show and should be commended, same with the leadership of the party in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tensions had risen after a protest in Agege and Orile-Agege by some APC members who accused Speaker Obasa of planting loyalists and family members, including his son (Abdulganiyu), as flagbearers in the upcoming July 12 council elections.<\/p>\n

But Egunjobi dismissed the demonstration as a charade sponsored by political desperadoes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI watched the video of the so-called protest, and I was amazed to see those who led it. A political neophyte, who is a charge-and-bail lawyer, anchored it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor your information, this man until recently was gushing about the Speaker, thinking singing the praise of Obasa would get him the party chairmanship ticket for Orile-Agege,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that some of the aggrieved aspirants, including Sola Osolana and Bukola Sofidiya, only returned to the party shortly before the primaries and lacked the moral and constitutional right to contest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know some of their paymasters in the persons of a certain serving senator from Ogun State and a three-time House of Assembly member in our area, to mention but a few,\u201d he hinted, without naming names.<\/p>\n

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Addressing the controversy over the candidacy of Obasa\u2019s son, who is reportedly running as a vice-chairmanship candidate in Agege, Egunjobi defended the Speaker\u2019s son as eminently qualified, drawing comparisons to political dynasties in the United States and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Obasa\u2019s son, Abdulganiyu<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is someone that is well-read, a PhD student for that matter, who has been touching lives in Agege long before now. In fact, he deserves to succeed me.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople blabbing \u2018imposition\u2019 in respect of the Speaker\u2019s son\u2019s matter are not fair to the young man and Agege,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

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Highlighting his tenure, which ends in about two months, Egunjobi reeled out achievements including the construction of roads, health centres, public school infrastructure, vocational training, youth empowerment programmes, and local job creation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe built a CBT centre for JAMB candidates, upgraded our vocational training institute, and even created a deradicalisation programme for looters post-Endsars,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver 700 staff, including security personnel under \u2018Paramole\u2019, are on our payroll, receiving stipends to maintain peace and order.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about the perennial Awori versus non-indigene divide in Agege politics, the chairman responded with a rebuke of identity politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all born and bred in Agege. Come to think of it, no Awori person in Agege is more Agege than me. The dichotomy doesn\u2019t hold water and is inconsequential,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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