The sons of political chieftains of the All Progressives Congress and
the Peoples Democratic Party have thrown their hats into the ring to contest
for Lagos House of Assembly seats.
They include the son of the immediate past Minister of State for
Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, the son of the National Publicity Secretary of the
APC, Lai Mohammed, and the son of a former Minister of Works, Adeseye Ogunlewe.
Jimi Mohammed, the son of Lai Mohammed, is set to contest the Lagos
State House of Assembly election.
According to information on the Facebook page of the APC, Jimi will
contest the Ikeja constituency 1, the constituency the current Speaker of the
House, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, represents. However, Ikuforiji has declared his
intention to contest Lagos governorship election.
The statement read, “Jimi Mohammed, the son of APC spokesperson, Alhaji
Lai Mohammed, is running for a seat in the Lagos House of Assembly. He is
coming out from the same area that the current speaker, Ikuforiji came out from
in Ikeja.
“Already, he has begun campaigns for the seat and his friends are
rallying round for him. Jimi is a brilliant guy. Judging by his achievements,
he has done well for himself and others. Folajimi is the Managing Director of
Knightsbridge Dredging Limited.
“He is a University of Kent, Canterbury, Law graduate. He also attended
Fordham Law School and the Nigerian Law School.”
Meanwhile, our correspondent also learnt that Babajide Obanikoro, the
son of the former Minister of State for Defence, has declared his intention to
contest the Eti-Osa Constituency II election on the platform of the PDP.
Babajide, who attended Kings College, Lagos, and studied Political
Science in the United States, also holds a Master’s degree from a University in
New York.
Babajide came into prominence in 2011 when he contested the chairmanship
of the Ikoyi/Obalende Local Council Development Area.
He was declared winner by the Lagos State Local Government Election
Petitions Tribunal sitting in Ikeja the following year but the decision was
later upturned by the Lagos State Appeal Tribunal which pronounced Adewale
Adeniji of the APC as the winner.
It was also learnt that Moyosore Ogunlewe, the son of a former Minister
of Works and PDP chieftain, Mr. Adeseye Ogunlewe, will contest the Kosofe
Constituency 1 seat of the Assembly.
Moyosore, who studied Business Administration at the University of
Lagos, holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Laws degree from the University
of Buckingham, in the United Kingdom.
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