2027: Lagos APC expels two Assembly aspirants

The All Progressives Congress, APC, successful Lagos State has expelled 2 erstwhile members and ex-Lagos State House of Assembly aspirants, Ganiyu Kolawole Egunjobi and Azeez Yusuf, implicit alleged anti-party activities and disloyalty.

The authorities president of the party, Cornelius Ojelabi, announced the expulsion connected Wednesday, saying the determination followed the behaviour of the 2 erstwhile members aft they failed to unafraid the APC tickets for the Assembly election.

Egunjobi and Yusuf had contested the party’s information processes for Agege Constituencies I and II respectively earlier subsequently securing tickets to contention nether different governmental platform. Their determination to the Allied Peoples Movement, APM, had antecedently been reported pursuing disagreements implicit the APC’s campaigner enactment for the 2 constituencies.

Ojelabi said the determination to expel them was based connected what the enactment regarded arsenic anti-party behaviour and a breach of its expectations of loyalty from members.

According to him, enactment members who suffer interior contests are expected to either judge the result oregon question redress done the established mechanisms of the organisation alternatively than determination to different governmental enactment during the aforesaid electoral cycle.

He said the Lagos APC had relied connected Article 9(5)(II) of the party’s Constitution, arsenic amended successful 2022, successful taking disciplinary enactment against the 2 erstwhile members.