Trending Talk In Lagos APC Power Circle Ahead Of Last LG Primary Election Under Sanwo-Olu

Insiders have provided insight into the trending talk within the power circle of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the party’s primary election to produce candidates for the July 12, 2025, local government election.

The primary election, which will produce the party’s flagbearers for the 57 chairmanship positions and 376 councillorship seats, is scheduled for Saturday, May 10, 2025.

This will be the last of such exercises under Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who is expected to leave office in 2027 after completing his second term, which began in 2019.

Information filtering out indicates intense horse-trading and political negotiations across various groups, strongly signaling where the pendulum of victory is likely to swing in a significant number of the 20 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).

“Many of the powerful groups in charge of different localities are reaching agreements on how things should go, adopting consensus through power-sharing arrangements that take effect after the main election,” sources say.

Insiders insist that, except in a few areas where agreements are still being finalized and some last-minute efforts are ongoing to gain more leverage from already sealed deals, everything appears set to proceed as “predestined.”

President Bola Tinubu has directed that party leaders must ensure the most popular candidates emerge across all locations in the electoral exercises.