Category: Politics

Lagos East Senatorial Seat: I’m Still In The Race, Says Otunba Abiru

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Kunle ADELABU An aspirant for the Lagos East Senatorial seat on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Otunba Olusegun Ganiyu Abiru, has denied withdrawing from the race.   Abiru who is the Chairman of the Ikorodu-Oga Development Association IKODASS and former Clerk\Permanent Secretary, Lagos State House of Assembly, made this revelation during a discourse on THE IMPACT whatssApp platform on Saturday, September1, 2018.   While assuring his supporters that he cannot be intimidated out of the race, the technocrat also stated, “To me, it is more honourable to…

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Ikorodu Council of Baales endorse Hon. Agunbiade for Another Term

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Wale JAGUN The Council of Baales in Ikorodu division has endorsed the aspiration of the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Sanai Oyeniran Bolanle Agunbiade,  to run for another term as the lawmaker representing Ikorodu constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly. According to a release by Hon.  Agunbiade’s media team, the Baales, numbering about sixty from different communities in Ikorodu division, made the declaration at a meeting held with the lawmaker in Ikorodu on Monday, August 27, 2018. They were led by the…

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Otunba Saheed Ibikunle Declares For Lagos Assembly Seat

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Wale JAGUN & Seun AJAYI The former Senior Special Assistant to the former Governor of Lagos State, Otunba Saheed Ibikunle, has taken a step further in his quest to contest for the Ikorodu Constituency I seat at the Lagos State House of Assembly by publicly declaring his intention.   At the declaration event,  which was held at the premises of the Ultimate Education Concept College, Gbasemo, Aga, Ikorodu, on Friday, August 17, 2018, Hon. Ibikunle also unveiled his campaign agenda to his operational group popularly known as ’Omoluabi’ and others.…

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APC Youth Leaders Pledge Support For Abiru’s Senatorial Aspiration

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Jare OLUKOTUN The Senatorial aspiration of Otunba Ganiyu Olusegun Abiru, the Chairman of Ikorodu-Oga Development Association (IKODASS) and the former Clerk/Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State House of Assembly, has received a major boost as Youth leaders of the  All Progressives Congress (APC)  pledged their supports for his ambition.   The youth leaders made this pledge when they were hosted by the  former Clerk of the Lagos State House of Assembly at his Regal hall office located in Igbogbo/Bayeiku Local Council Development Area, recently.   At the meeting, Otunba Abiru…

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Ikorodu Constituency I Assembly seat: Hon. Agunbiade’s Re-Election Bid Gets Royal Fathers, Political leaders, Constituents’ Supports

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Kunle ADELABU -His people love him – Ondo lawmaker The relection bid of Hon. Sanai Agunbiade, the Majority Leader of the Lagos State House of Assembly and the lawmaker representing Ikorodu Constituency I, received a major boost on Thursday, July 9, 2018,  as traditional rulers, political leaders, market people and hundreds of residents publicly adopted his candidature.   The adoption of the three term lawmaker’s bid to represent the people of Ikorodu for one more term at the hallow Chamber of the Lagos State House of Assembly, took place at…

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Epe/Ibeju-Lekki Axis Will Still Have The Governorship Position In The Next Dispensation, They Cannot Get The Senatorial Seat For Now – Primate Odugbesi, former Lagos State APC Scribe.

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Primate Charles Odugbesi is the former State Secretary of the Action Congress (AC), Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the acting State Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). He is an aspirant for the Senatorial seat of the Lagos East Senatorial District. He is also into marriage counseling and pastoral works. In this interview with Kunle ADELABU, the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the THE IMPACT Newspaper, he bore his mind on his Lagos East Senatorial aspiration, performances of the incumbent, and that of the six council chairmen in Ikorodu division. He…

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Road To 2019: Who Gets Ikorodu Constituency I State Assembly Seat Ticket?

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As at the last check, more aspirants have joined those who had earlier declared interests in contesting for the Ikorodu Constituency I seat in the Lagos State House of Assembly. Presently, no fewer than nine aspirants from the All Progressives Congress (APC)  and three others on the platform of the opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), are battled ready for the much coveted seat. Who will emerge the representative of Ikorodu Constituency I in the hallow chamber of the State Assembly come 2019 among those who have declared to run…

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APC Congress Fallout: Ikorodu Party Members Unleash Mayhem On One Another At State’s Party Secretariat

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Kunle ADELABU and Wale JAGUN -Ikorodu Council Leader, party chieftains, others badly injured, dispossessed of valuable items Protests by different factions of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ikorodu over the list of party executives approved for Ikorodu by the State Secretariat of the party assumed a very dangerous dimension on Wednesday, June 20, 2018, as members engaged themselves in a brutal confrontation at the state’s  party secretariat at ACME, Ikeja. There have been running battles among different political groups and caucuses since the party had its ward and local…

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