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Lagos APC governorship candidate Obafemi Hamzat appoints ex-senator Musiliu Obanikoro as campaign DG ahead of 2027 election race.

The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has announced Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, as Director-General of his campaign ahead of the 2027 election.

The appointment was disclosed at an expanded meeting of the campaign council, presided by Hamzat on Wednesday.
THISDAY gathered that the choice of Obanikoro had been pre-approved by President Bola Tinubu before it was made public by the candidate himself at a recent meeting of the council.

The choice of Obanikoro, sources within the council disclosed, was informed by the fact that he was a veteran politician and election general, who had been tested at different times.

Apart from the fact that his choice apparently had the approval of the president, THISDAY also gathered that no member of the council had an objection, as they all described the former senator for Lagos Central as a man they could work with.

Considered one of the most experienced politicians in the state, with several offices – elective and appointive – to his credit, his choice was said to have been carefully made.

A former chairman of Lagos Island Local Government, Obanikoro was appointed Commissioner for Home Affairs and Culture in Lagos in 1999 by then Governor Bola Tinubu, and served for four years before he was elected senator.

After his appointment as High Commissioner to Ghana, which followed his defeat as a governorship candidate in Lagos on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Obanikoro had also been appointed junior minister twice.

He was first Minister of State for Defence and later Minister of State for Foreign Affairs under the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

A grounded Lagos politician and former elected secretary of the Justice Forum, with name recognition, Obanikoro is believed to come to his latest appointment with a bag full of experience, competence, and capacity, enough to lead the party to electoral victory in the state.

https://www.arise.tv/hamzat-names-obanikoro-as-lagos-apc-campaign-dg-for-2027-governorship-bid/

Kosi Koro kosi'ibo....... That's Kunle Poly and his boys chants then in 2007 while Baba Ebute says otherwise. Thank goodness Lagos Island is now one voice.

He is experienced, courageous, rugged and Master in the game.
He will surely deliver

Like play like play, Koro is back into political reckoning in Lagos.

festacman:
Like play like play, Koro is back into political reckoning in Lagos.

Funds done low, make baba make better money as DG campaign.

U have no ideas the amount of money Gringory & that Aisha woman collected from the LP presidential campaign?

Legalized 419., because till Jerusalem is fully returned to the Palestinians, Obi can never be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Goodvibes007:
Lagos APC governorship candidate Obafemi Hamzat appoints ex-senator Musiliu Obanikoro as campaign DG ahead of 2027 election race.



https://www.arise.tv/hamzat-names-obanikoro-as-lagos-apc-campaign-dg-for-2027-governorship-bid/

Obani-gini? Of all the vibrant young folks in APC. Smh.

Former PDP man just dey enjoy since he became APC

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU OBANIKORO

this guy done tey for queue koro thug man

Burob:
Funds done low, make baba make better money as DG campaign.

U have no ideas the amount of money Gringory & that Aisha woman collected from the LP presidential campaign?

Legalized 419., because till Jerusalem is fully returned to the Palestinians, Obi can never be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

@bolded, Isn't it possible for them to make money (through salary and compensation like the rest of us) while doing work that benefits the people?

Is the work they're doing right now benefiting Nigerians?

festacman:
Like play like play, Koro is back into political reckoning in Lagos.

Ko si Koro ko si 'bo in years 2006 2007 elections that eventually brought in Fashola of AC (APC).

Koro was in PDP then. Best canpaign ever!

Musiliu Obanikoro, Omo adugbo mi— a wa la l'Eko!

Burob:
Funds done low, make baba make better money as DG campaign.

U have no ideas the amount of money Gringory & that Aisha woman collected from the LP presidential campaign?

Legalized 419., because till Jerusalem is fully returned to the Palestinians, Obi can never be president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

koro has always been President's political tool, apologies for the kind of description

Isorite.

Ba wahala

Hamzat even need campaign again? No need wasting money na. Who wan follow am drag am?

They are about to take Lagos through another 4 years of incompetent rule!

2026 and state is still struggling with the very basics- Water, Security, education and infrastructure, despite the massive debt, IGR and FG allocation.

Lagosians deserve everything they get. Not that they benefit anything from the APC rule, they are just ashamed to opt out.

State has become a cash cow to a few!

Of all people nah Obanikoro you see as ur campaign Dg, this man is not people’s man .
Make your research , you will understand.
Also don’t forget he has once sold out AD when he was in senate.

APC really mean business. I hope the opposition party will pull out a surprise this time around.

SmartMaster001:
APC really mean business. I hope the opposition party will pull out a surprise this time around.

It's just painful that all the oppositions don't even know their left from right, like no direction at all, just desperation.

Wow, life can happen to someone sha... from long aspiring aspirant to becoming a Campaign DG

Goodvibes007:
Lagos APC governorship candidate Obafemi Hamzat appoints ex-senator Musiliu Obanikoro as campaign DG ahead of 2027 election race.



https://www.arise.tv/hamzat-names-obanikoro-as-lagos-apc-campaign-dg-for-2027-governorship-bid/

The same obanikoro abi it's a different person 🤔

Okay na. Agege boy Rt Hon Mudashiru Obasa is the Deputy DG ballot overhauling, anybody wey put head, no be him go explain

JuanDeDios:
Obani-gini? Of all the vibrant young folks in APC. Smh.

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Mention one that can match Koro’s street credibility and experience. Apart from Tinubu himself, there is no other politician in South West Nigeria that is in the category of Koro

HacheNoire:
They are about to take Lagos through another 4 years of incompetent rule!

2026 and state is still struggling with the very basics- Water, Security, education and infrastructure, despite the massive debt, IGR and FG allocation.

Lagosians deserve everything they get. Not that they benefit anything from the APC rule, they are just ashamed to opt out.

State has become a cash cow to a few!

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And you ran away from your state of origin to come and slave in Lagos. Even your past and present state governors come to slave in Lagos

simpleseyi:
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And you ran away from your state of origin to come and slave in Lagos. Even your past and present state governors come to slave in Lagos

What a shallow and archaic way of reasoning, and it’s all because you are a product of the education Lagos offered you.

So criticizing my state makes me a non indigene?

What a shame!

Koro the rugged street man that has almost most of Lagos Getto at his bekon call,

Money go flow ehh,he has cashed out bigtime

DEAR CHINEDU...
Forget Lagos .Lagos belongs to OMOLUABI, k'aro Ajirebi . Come back home and 🏃‍♀️.


EKO O GBA NONSENSE FROM ANYBODY

HacheNoire:
What a shallow and archaic way of reasoning, and it’s all because you are a product of the education Lagos offered you.

So criticizing my state makes me a non indigene?

What a shame!

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No cry, no cry, no cry, but if you want to cry, then cry well well

atobs4real:
Former PDP man just dey enjoy since he became APC

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU OBANIKORO

Na so e be.

Koro has been eating quietly for years now.

Kosi koro, kosi Ibo . I don dey old oo

This guy chop life back then in Ghana, Chai Chai Chai!
He was driving one Ferrari I think, dey carry different babes.
I jam am for Aphrodisiac several a few times with girls wey gather bakassi like truck

Na inn drop the money wey Fayose take rig election that year. I wonder where that Army captain wey record the connivance dey now. Likely that they sacked him

ecolime:
Na so e be.

Koro has been eating quietly for years now.

Kosi koro, kosi Ibo . I don dey old oo

Obanikore kosi koro kosi Ibo

Sensiblerealist:
This guy chop life back then in Ghana, Chai Chai Chai!
He was driving one Ferrari I think, dey carry different babes.
I jam am for Aphrodisiac several a few times with girls wey gather bakassi like truck

You be gbeborun.. Na wa for you oo