Lagos APC Guber Ticket: SMA Urges Party Leaders for Primary, Charges Supporters on TINUBU's 2nd Term Victory

Frontline governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Dr SAMUEL MAWUYON AJOSE, has refused to backdown from his bid for the party’s 2027 governorship ticket. This is in spite of the wave of endorsements for the Deputy Governor, OBAFEMI HAMZAT, which has forced other aspirants, such as ABDUL-AZEEZ OLAJIDE ADEDIRAN, also known as JANDOR, to abandon their ambition. Dr AJOSE reinforced his declaration during a meeting with the SMA Movement in Oregun, Ikeja, with APC supporters drawn from the fifty-seven local government and local council development areas across Lagos State. AJOSE also assures that his continued mobilisation across the state on the platform of the SMA Movement will translate into landslide victory for President BOLA TINUBU in the 2027 election. He urged Lagos APC leaders to throw open the contest for the party’s governorship ticket in the primaries to determine the aspirant with the largest grassroots support base to win the 2027 election. He noted that the capacity to deliver on the promise has been demonstrated overtime while urging members to ensure the message gets to the grassroots to prevent repeat of results of 2023 presidential poll in the state.  According to him, several consultations within the party are ongoing, recalling that the President emerged the candidate of the APC in the 2023 election through the primary and not consensus. Speaking further, SAMUEL AJOSE said just like President BOLA TINUBU declared that the 2023 presidential election was his turn, the 2027 governorship election was the turn of Badagry to produce its first of Lagos State. On his part, the Director General of the Movement, Mr. BIODUN COKER expressed optimism that the SMA Movement would land in Alausa come 2027, noting that the will of the people will prevail at the end. Also speaking, one of the leaders of the party in Lagos Island, Chief RASHEED SHOBALOJU pointed out that the SMA Movement started in the room but now known all over the country especially South west with the massive Billboards for re-election of President Tinubu in 2027.  The Chairman of the SMA Movement, Dr. Babatunde Olaide-Mesewaku thanked the coordinators from the ward levels for the trust and confidence in the mandate. Lending her voice to the issue, a former member of the House of Representatives from Badagry, Hon. RAFEEQUAT ARINOLA ONABAMIRO reassured that the bloc vote from women in Lagos will go to President TINUBU and the governorship candidate of the APC. The Coordinators of the SMA Movement from the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 LCDAs, including 376 wards were in attendance at the General Assembly which endorsed the re-election of President TINUBU.