2027: Obasa, Orelope-Adefulire, Aregbesola in pitched battle for Alimosho

By Olasunkasnmi Akoni

SPEAKER of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, erstwhile Lagos State Deputy Governor (2011 to 2015) and Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Sustainable Development Goals, Adejoke Orelope-Adeulire; and Minister of Interior nether precocious President Muhammadu Buhari administration, Engr Rauf Aregbesola are locked successful a conflict for the psyche of Alimosho.

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Alimosho is the astir populous section authorities country successful Nigeria and has ever played captious roles successful determining winners of elections successful Lagos. Alimosho was the decider erstwhile Governor Bola Tinubu won his re-election successful 2003. Then, Aregbesola, his Commissioner for Works led Tinubu’s electoral ft soldiers successful Alimosho.

Ahead of the 2027 polls, determination is simply a conflict for the power of Alimosho. Aregbesola, who aboriginal became politician of Osun State earlier serving arsenic a minister, inactive wields power successful the country but whether his power is beardown arsenic earlier remains to beryllium seen.

Aregbesola’s caller exit from the All Progressives Congress, APC and landing successful the African Democratic Congress, ADC, wherever helium is nationalist secretary, has paved the mode for the emergence of different beardown forces successful Alimosho, who are expected to enactment for President Tinubu’s re-election successful 2027.

These see Obasa, Orelope-Adefulire, and Senator Idiat Adebule, a serving legislator for Lagos West.

In Lagos, Alimosho is noted for its governmental and electoral spot successful determining the wide results of elections astatine each electoral cycle. It is dubbed Tinubu’s Country owed to the information it ever delivers immense votes to the ruling enactment successful the authorities since the reign of Tinubu.

The conflict to instrumentality complaint of the coveted country started since the autumn retired of Aregbesola who has ever held sway successful Alimosho for Tinubu, his mentor and godfather, with APC replacing the enactment with Orelope Adefulire, dumping Aregbesola’s stooge, Enilolobo, arsenic well.

Orelope-Adefulire

Orelope-Adefulire is an administrator, societal worker, person and princess from the Alimosho royal family. As a grassroots politician, she is the apex person of the APC successful Alimosho Federal Constituency. She is besides a salient subordinate of the Lagos State Governance Advisory Council, GAC. The GAC is the highest governmental decision-making assemblage of Lagos State.

It was gathered that Orelope Adefulire had held bid of meetings with leaders and stakeholders successful Alimosho to defy immoderate signifier of takeover by the absorption parties specified arsenic Aregbesola’s ADC and has embarked connected monolithic mobilization for the re-election of President Tinubu.

Obasa

Obasa, an emerging governmental unit successful Tinubu’s campy has besides been talking pugnacious astir power of Alimosho.

The Lagos speaker, who has been speculated to beryllium eyeing the governorship slot successful Lagos, with Alimosho and Lagos West arsenic his base, connected a TV programme recently, stressed that the determination connected his governmental aboriginal rests with the enactment of the APC.

“As a politician, you indispensable hold for the hierarchy of the enactment to find wherever they privation you to go, whether arsenic a lawmaker, governor, oregon senator. People should not beryllium misled oregon effort to misinterpret the party’s plans. Let each hostility calm down. Our main absorption is however to determination the state forward. President Tinubu is making important advancement time by day,” Obasa explained.

Aregbesola’s factor

Talking of betrayal, Tunji Malomo, a subordinate of ADC successful Ifako Ijaiye, astatine a meeting, took a swipe astatine Tinubu’s supporters for accusing Aregbesola of betraying the president saying that Tinubu was the archetypal to betray Aregbesola.

“So, immoderate Aregbe does now, nary 1 should telephone him a betrayer. Aregbe had been loyal to Tinubu for astir 30 years. And loyalty is not a one-way street. It is communal with a earthy instrumentality of reciprocity.

“The task of rescuing Nigeria has begun and we don’t caput taking prisoners. And that clip is present To rescue Nigeria is simply a task that indispensable beryllium done,

“We are hereby utilizing this mean to bring it to the announcement of the authorities Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Lagos State House of Assembly an...