Hundreds of All Progressives Congress (APC) women on Thursday stormed the State House, Marina, Lagos with petitions appealing to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to help them reach out to President Bola Tinubu over the last local government primaries, urging for cancellation of the exercise in Agbado/Oke-Odo Council Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state.
The women protest, conducted by the ruling APC, had produced Abiodun Ejigbadero as the candidate of party for the local government polls, scheduled to hold on July 12, 2025.
In the petition jointly signed by the LGA Vice Chairperson, Mrs Funmilayo Odelabi and the LGA Woman Leader, Mrs Mary Ishola, addressed to President Tinubu, with a similar one written to Governor Sanwo-Olu, and dated May 22, titled: “Re: Wrongful selection of Abiodun Ejigbadero or Ishola as the APC candidate for local government election Agbado/Oke-Odo LCDA,” the aggrieved members denounced what they termed as imposition of Ejigbadero as the party’s candidate in the council area.
The protesters, while presenting their demand in the petition, alleged that the primary exercise that produced Ejigbadero was “most secretive and unusual primary election ever conducted at the State Party Secretariat on 10th May, 2025 where delegates, aspirants and their agents were barred from observing the election process.”
This was just as they equally alleged that the said candidate was never a member of the APC in the LCDA, declaring pointedly a total rejection of the outcome of the election “as it does not conform with the standards of democracy and openness you have set for our party over the years and is far from the reality on ground in Agbado/Oke-Odo LCDA.”
“In the light of the foregoing Sir, we request for the outright cancellation of the hideous and shameful caricature of elections that is capable of casting serious doubts on the ideals of justice and fairness that you have always stood up for as our leader and mentor.
“We appeal to you to compel the Primary Elections Committee to announce the true result of the election or the conduct of a fresh election in the full glare of all relevant stakeholders.
“Please also find attached a list of the fourteen of the accredited delegates who participated in the supposed 24-man delegate election process,” the petition read.
“Our Asiwaju, we have always believed in you and we remain your followers. We are not in doubt that you remain the one man who can forestall the ongoing attempt to freeze out a majority of party members from a system we have served with utmost loyalty and for which we have never faltered.
“The All Progressives Congress have never lost any election in Agbado/Oke-Odo LCDA and will not lose one in any foreseeable future,” it added.
It will be recalled that the stakeholders in Oki community of the LCDA staged a similar peaceful protest on Monday to express their rejection of the candidate selected as the APC flag bearer in the coming July 12 local government elections in the state.
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