The Gladiators battling for entry into the Lagos Assembly

The APC is confident it can retain all 40 seats. It has many reasons to be.

A photo combination of some candidates in the 2023 Lagos State House of Assembly elections. Clockwise from top left: Youth Party’s Tari Taylaur, APC’s Mudashiru Obasa, APC’s Mojisola Meranda, PDP’s John Kome, ADC’s Elizabeth Ekanem, and AAC’s Comrade Opeyemi Ogunlami.

It seems like a foregone conclusion that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will coast to victory at the Lagos House of Assembly polls. In 2019, APC won all the 40 available seats in the house. Is it destined to happen again?

John Okoro Kome, who is running for the Ikeja constituency 1 seat under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) doesn't think so.

He believes he is the candidate to beat after battling up to the Court of Appeal to win his party's nomination.

Mr Kome, who contested the 2021 Lagos East senatorial by-election under the African Democratic Congress, said it is time for the PDP to take over Lagos.

Another candidate trying to break the APC's hold on the House is Tari Taylaur, who is running to represent Eti-Osa con…