Youth Party, LP reject Lagos LG election results, call for cancellation

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The Lagos State Local Government elections, which were held on Saturday, July 12, 2025, were vehemently denounced by the Youth Party, which called the procedure “shambolic” and “blatantly rigged” in favor of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.

A similar rejection by the Labour Party, which called the exercise a “dangerous blueprint for electoral fraud” in advance of the general elections in 2027, was followed by this condemnation.

The Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, announced on Sunday that the APC candidates had won all 57 of the chairmanships up for grabs.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, won one ward, but the party also won 375 of the 376 councillorship seats.

Francisco Doregos, the chairman of the Youth Party’s Lagos chapter, made a statement in which the party accused LASIEC of overseeing a seriously faulty process, claiming instances of widespread fraud and voter suppression.

“Expectedly, the Lagos State Local Government Elections were shambolic and blatantly rigged against our candidates with reckless and shameless abandon,” Doregos said.

Citing the appointment of commissioners with established APC ties, he claimed that the electoral body had been tainted from the start.

Additionally, Doregos charged LASIEC with not fulfilling fundamental legal obligations, including releasing the voter registration list prior to the polls and sending out appropriate election reminders.

The Youth Party said that it performed better than other opposition parties in the regions where it fielded candidates, despite allegations that security forces were employed to intimidate and impede its candidates.

“We were obviously the preferred party without rigging,” Doregos asserted.

“We emerged as the most preferred choice across the polling units where we fielded candidates, outperforming the PDP, AA, ZLP and other opposition parties,” he added.

The Labour Party also voiced their deep displeasure with the election’s result. The party accused the APC of blatantly manipulating the election with claimed assistance from LASIEC officials in a statement released in Abuja by her Senior Special Adviser on Media, Ken Asogwa, and signed by Senator Nenadi Usman, the Chairman of its National Caretaker Committee.

Usman called the APC’s landslide victory “shameless” and “unprecedented in Nigeria’s electoral history.”

“The farce that played out in Lagos on Saturday under the guise of council election has once again exposed the APC as a party allergic to democratic principles and due process,” the statement read.

“The audacity with which LASIEC officials collaborated openly with APC operatives represents a new low.”

According to the Labour Party, its agents in different sections of the state reported a number of anomalies, such as ballot boxes filled with thumb-printed papers and pre-filled result sheets that were carried to polling places before the voting started.

“While no one expects electoral decency from the APC, we had hoped they would at least pretend. Even that pretence has now been discarded,” the party lamented.

Demanding that the results be immediately canceled and that a new, legitimate election process be held that accurately represents the will of Lagosians, the Labour Party urged its followers to remain calm.

“Lagos, known as the Centre of Excellence, should not be reduced to a theatre of electoral absurdity. What happened on Saturday is a clear red flag, one that all true democrats in Nigeria should be alarmed by,” Asogwa warned.

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