Party officials in Agege LGA, Lagos State, have taken legal action by contacting President Bola Tinubu, the APC’s national chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, the NWC, and INEC. They claim that the results of the APC primary election for Agege Constituency I were tampered with following the exercise.
Executives from each of the five constituency wards as well as the APC chairman and secretary in Agege LGA all signed the petition on June 1, 2026.
Despite Mr. Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi’s victory in the May 20, 2026, primary election, the party officials refused to acknowledge him as their candidate for the Lagos State House of Assembly seat.
The petitioners claim that out of 10,126 votes cast in the five wards of the constituency, Egunjobi received 9,132. Mr. Tunde Shola Oladipo reportedly earned 560 votes, while Mr. Michael Abiola Oluwagbenga received 434 votes, according to their report.
After the primary, the authorised returning officer, Kayode Kassim Eleshin, formally certified Egunjobi the winner, and the group insisted that he had been properly inspected and cleared to participate.
They went on to say that security agencies, journalists, APC officials, and INEC representatives were all there to witness the poll, and that everyone involved found it to be a credible, peaceful process.
But the petitioners were worried about a May 25, 2026, newspaper article that named Micheal Abiola Oluwagbenga as the APC candidate for Agege Constituency I.
The declared winner of the primary election did not reflect the will of the party members who took part in the exercise, and the published result, they claim, contradicts that announcement.
The party leaders have called on the national leadership of the APC to look into all the primary election records and support the returning officer’s decision.
“This petition is to formally recognise Egunjobi Ganiyu Kola as the duly elected APC candidate for Lagos State House of Assembly, Agege Constituency I. We respectfully urge the National Working Committee and all relevant organs and committees of our great party to uphold the authentic result as declared by the Returning Officer,” the petition read.
They went on to say that they had documentation to back up their claims, including video recordings from each of the five wards and reports from election observers and security organisations.
In addition, the petitioners urged President Tinubu and the APC leadership to step in and safeguard the freely granted mandate from party members in the constituency.