LAGOS COUNCIL POLL; NO CHALLENGER FOR OBE, OTHER PARTIES IN DISARRAY

*Hon Obe

LAGOS COUNCIL POLL;  NO CHALLENGER FOR OBE, OTHER PARTIES IN DISARRAY

By Our Reporters

As the 2021 Lagos Local Council election inches closer,  indications are that incumbent Chairman of Ejigbo LCDA Hon Monsuru Oloyede Obe is set to clinch another four year’s tenure.

This is because there does not seem to be any other challenger in sight.

A Lagos Council poll survey organised by Ejigbo City Diary (ECD) across the entire LCDA reveal that most of other parties seem in disarray without visible presence as compared with what obtained in the past when the PDP paraded vibrant contestants like Ibrahim Adefenwa, Rev Ojo, Akinlusi FCA or when Hon. Sanjo, APGA PRO would move to release his party's election work plan.

*Obe after picking and submitting his declaration form

Today they all seem to have been thrown far apart by the non stop political machinations of the All Progressives Congress APC and Obe which continues to attract more followership daily singing the Obe ni joooo, Obe lekansi songs.

During the tour of the wards, we found out what makes Obe the man to beat in Ejigbo council election and how he is contesting against himself so to speak.

Obe is being acclaimed for the equitable distribution of council resources, the so called democracy dividends including in education, health and infrastructural development across the wards in the last four years.

Again he is also being commended for ‘carrying along’ Ejigbo indigenous people as well as the various tribal groups in his locality making room for their endorsement of his administration and willingness to vote him a second time come July 24, 2021.

Thirdly, he is also being hailed for propelling a formidable willing and cooperative team of councillors and officials whose unity of purpose has benefited his administration immensely.

This has earned him much needed endorsement from the Igbo, Arewa, South South and a host of other ethnic and socio political groups.  

Yet his Monsurudeen Oloyede campaign organisation (MOCO)has not stopped touring  the community 

Come Saturday July 3, 2021, members of the South South Peoples forum Ejigbo will throng Ejigbo LCDA  headquarters to join the numerous ethnic groups that have thrown in their support for the return of Obe.

Says Hon Anene Enebeli, a top member of the South South Peoples Forum, Ejigbo chapter “We want to gather on tha day to tell the world that Obe has done well; we want him to return to the Ejigbo Tiger House. That’s our prayer”

Obe with his team of councillors won the Lagos APC primaries conducted across the 57 councils ( 20 LGA s and 37 LCDAs)on Saturday, May 29.