OpenLife Nigeria reports that a House of Representatives candidate in Lagos, Noheem Balogun, has made moves to unseat Asiwaju Bola Amhed Tinubu in the old Epe Division of Lagos State.
Lagos State is made up of five administrative divisions, namely, Ikorodu, Ikeja, Epe, Badagry, and Lagos Island, with Ikeja being the capital. The five divisions consist of a total of 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs).
Tinubu is the indisputable political overseer of the entire 57 local government areas and has consistently maintained a firm grip of the political and administrative structures.
Tinubu, also addressed as Jagaban, has been the sole influencer on who represents the Division at the federal parliament, comprising Senate and House of Representatives.
However, under Tinubu and his successive governors and federal representatives, Epe Division is judged to have been backward in terms of quality representation, a fault, clearly adduced to Tinubu’s wrong choices.
This perceived abnormality is what may have ignited a revolt by Noheem Balogun, opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP House of Representatives candidate in the 2023 general election.
Balogun has vowed to unseat Tinubu and APC from the Division and make a good representation and address the “long-time deprivations” which he said the people of Epe division have suffered due to lack of federal government presence in the constituency.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate stated this at the launching of solar street light donated to Epe communities and its environs.
Balogun promised to provide quality representation for Epe Federal Constituency if elected in next year’s general election.
He said his people deserved a viable representation that would effectively connect the constituency to the national resource distribution, noting that the constituency had been cut off from federal presence-led by the Wale Raji representation at the low chamber.
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