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Lagos LG Poll: KOWA Blasts APC Over ‘Overbearance’

In a statement released on Tuesday, the party said the Lagos State APC has continued to impose candidates on the residents and has used local government seats as compensation for their friends, families and political thugs.

The leadership of the Lagos State branch of the KOWA party has accused the state’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), of emasculating the local government administrative structure, thereby rendering it ineffective.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the party said the Lagos State APC has continued to impose candidates on the residents and has used local government seats as compensation for their friends, families and political thugs.

The party urged the APC to shed every thought of rigging the forthcoming local government election in its favor, stating that the KOWA party would not allow the decisions of a select few to erode the collective desire of the people.

“In what has now become a tradition, Lagos State governors and godfathers have, since 1999, used the local governments as compensation of sorts for their friends, family and political thugs. From the outset, we have noticed, with utter dismay, the overbearance of the APC structure on the Lagos Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC),” the statement read.

“We have made it clear before that KOWA party does not concern itself with how the incumbent conducts its internal affairs so they can go ahead and impose candidates on their members but they should not think, for a second, that they can impose their candidates on the people.

“The will of the people cannot be overwhelmed by the will of some people who think they can sit in a mansion in Bourdillon or Alausa and draft out outcomes for the elections. The populace will no longer condone that.”

KOWA also warned against “some elemental groups [that] are perfecting plans to wreak mayhem in certain areas if they don't get their way at the polls”.

The party therefore called on civil societies and security agencies to help ensure peace during and after the election.

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