Former Agege Local Government Chairman, Ganiyu Egunjobi, and former Agege Constituency II aspirant, Azeez Yusuf, have rejected their expulsion from the All Progressives Congress, saying they resigned from the party weeks before the disciplinary action was announced.
The duo said this in a statement on Wednesday following the Lagos State APC’s announcement of their expulsion over alleged anti-party activities and disloyalty.
Lagos APC Chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, had announced their expulsion, saying the party invoked Article 9(5)(II) of its constitution in taking disciplinary action against them.
Egunjobi and Yusuf contested the APC primaries for Agege Constituencies I and II respectively but lost the party’s tickets. They subsequently obtained tickets to contest the seats on the platform of the Allied Peoples Movement.
However, the former APC members said they resigned from the party in July 2026 and later joined the APM.
They said their resignation and defection had been publicly reported, questioning the basis for the party’s decision to expel them in September.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we resigned from the APC in July 2026 — weeks before the Party announced our purported expulsion on September 23.
“We had already made our decision, communicated our position and moved on politically. We subsequently joined the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), and our resignation and defection were publicly reported by several newspapers,” they said.
The duo said their decision to leave the APC followed what they described as the party’s failure to resolve their grievances over its primary elections.
They described the September 23 expulsion announcement as an attempt to “rewrite” the circumstances surrounding their departure.
They also questioned how the party could expel members who, according to them, had already resigned.
“It is therefore difficult to see the September 23 announcement as anything other than an attempt to rewrite a political history that had already moved on,” they said.
The former APC members also raised concerns about internal democracy, due process and the right of party members to make political choices.
The APC, however, maintained that their conduct amounted to anti-party activity and disloyalty.
The party said members who lost its internal contests were expected to accept the outcome or pursue available avenues of redress rather than contest on another political platform during the same electoral cycle.
The APC also described their claimed July resignations as a “belated and face-saving attempt” to pre-empt disciplinary action.