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Samuel Ajose, a Lagos State governorship aspirant in the All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused the state’s deputy governor, Obafemi Hamzat, of imposing a consensus on party members.
Ajose’s claims follow the endorsement of Hamzat as the consensus candidate for the 2027 governorship election by the Governance Advisory Council (GAC), the APC’s highest advisory body. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has also endorsed Hamzat as his successor.
Ajose, speaking on Channels Television, claimed that Hamzat is scared of contesting in the party’s primary election.
“Consensus says that every aspirant who has picked the party’s nomination form must consent to the consensus. And then we don’t know why Hamzat is scared of going into the primaries. We don’t know why he’s trying to force everybody into a consensus. If you are big and, you have the popularity, you have the network, you have the grassroots, then let’s go into the primaries,” said Ajose.
“Why is everybody scared of the primaries. I need to endorse before consensus can [sic] come into place. But in the absence of that, everybody must go into the primary. That is what the constitution says. And we are going to meet in the primaries. Let everybody come in to test their strength and then we’ll see the results.”
Ajose also alleged that some APC members are coercing President Bola Tinubu into making a decision.
“I don’t think our president, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is giving in to what they are doing. What they are just trying to do is to coerce him into making a decision, and I don’t think that decision will stand,” Ajose added.
