A total of 300 aspirants are contesting for 40 seats in the Lagos State House Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, an official said on Thursday.
Chief Henry Ajomale, the Lagos State Chairman of the APC, gave the figure during the screening of the aspirants at the party’s secretariat in Lagos.
Ajomale said that the party’s primaries for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives elections might hold on November 19.
He said: “We are having the screening for the House of Assembly aspirants.
“By next week, we will probably hold screening for House of Representatives aspirants.
“Things are going on according to plans.
“In Lagos State, we are prepared.
“That is why we do not want to fail in terms of timing for primary elections for the House of Assembly and House of Representatives.
“Those are the ones we are going to do in Lagos State.”
Ajomale also said that 13 members of the party had so far applied for the governorship ticket, while 147 members were aspiring for seats in the House of Representatives.
He could not give the number of aspirants to the Senate, saying that more aspirants were still collecting forms.
Ajomale said that screening of governorship aspirants would be done by the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
House of Assembly aspirants from six local government areas of the state – Surulere, Eti-Osa, Oshodi, Ikeja,Ibeju and Ikorodu – were screened on Thursday.
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