Tinubu's candidate incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu wants a second term but is battling a youth-led campaign for political change in the country's commercial capital...
A dangerous battle looms in Lagos in the gubernatorial elections on 11 March when the Labour Party's Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour takes on the APC's incumbent Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu...
That much was clear in 2019 when Tinubu pushed out Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode backing Babajide Sanwo-Olu in his stead...
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Osinbajo met with several state governors on the evening of 10 April including Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos) Nasir el Rufai (Kaduna) Abubakar Atiku Bagudu (Kebbi) and Hope Uzodinma (Imo) to break the fast...
The immediate political fallout will descend on Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who is seen as having given into pressure from the federal government...
In 2019 Tinubu had to use every trick in his repertoire to deliver the vote for the All Progressives' Congress (APC) candidate Babajide Sanwo-Olu in the state elections and Muhammadu Buhari in the presidential polls (AC Vol 60 No 4 Governors get set)...
Fights over the Lekki shootings are dividing opinion even more sharply in Lagos state where the governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu who called out the military on 20 October is facing opposition to his bid for a second term in 2023...
Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu whose officials are heavily censured in the investigation has set up a four-person panel to evaluate it and produce a white paper within two weeks...
Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has admitted calling in soldiers the army has said soldiers went to enforce a curfew at the Lekki toll gates and a general – and then Information Minister Lai Mohammed – said only blanks were fired...
' After denying that its troops were at the Lekki toll gate on the evening of the shooting the army now says they were deployed by Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to enforce a curfew...
