While LASIEC gave the nod to 14 political parties to participate in the election, it shut the door on 10 others.
Last month, the AAC announced that it would field candidates for just three councillorship positions in two local governments – Agbado Oke-Odo and Ikorodu North.
In its response, the Inter-Party Advisory Council , the umbrella body of political parties in Lagos State, demanded a reduction of the fees thus: N50,000 and N20,000 for the chairmanship and councillorship aspirants, while it said the fee for the vice-chairmanship position be scrapped. “It is not good for democracy. It is suspicious,” Bode Makinde, the leader of the group, said at a press briefing in May.The real discontentment within the APC, however, surfaced after the party’s primaries were held across the 377 wards in the state. At least, 338 chairmanship and more than 1,200 councillorship aspirants took part in the exercise.,” according to the APC.
In Amuwo Odofin, Muslim and Christian groups in the party marched to the home of the party’s national leader, Bola Tinubu, over the alleged selection of the incumbent chairman, Valentine Buraimoh, ahead of the winner of the primaries, Dipo Olorunrinu.In Kosofe, Olanrewaju Carew defeated Moyosore Ogunlewe with 794 votes to 757 at the primaries. But strangely, on Saturday, Mr Ogunlewe, the son of the former minister of Works, Adeseye Ogunlewe, will be on the ballot.
In the 2015 general election, the PDP caused upsets in both the House of Representatives and State Assembly elections. In the former, the party defeated the APC in Amuwo Odofin, Surulere 2, Ajeromi Ifelodun, Ojo, and Oshodi-Isolo; while in the latter, the PDP clinched eight seats in the 40-member assembly.
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