… it’s most definitely going to be a woman. And 9 of them stand out effortlessly. So who?
If it is indeed his Excellency, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, & the signs are no longer whispering but beginning to speak, then the next question rises with quiet urgency: who stands beside him when the curtain finally lifts?
We have our indications. More than enough to draw a silhouette. But in Lagos, power does not announce itself in haste, it reveals itself with precision.
Across the past week, in gestures both subtle & deliberate, in alignments that seemed casual but were anything but, a narrative has been steadily forming. One that points, with increasing clarity, to KOH as the likely standard-bearer of the APC for the 2027 gubernatorial contest.
And if that eventuality crystallizes, it would not be by accident, it would be by design.
Because few within the Lagos political ecosystem embody continuity & depth of preparation quite like him.
From the foundational years of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration to the present stewardship under his Excellency, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, KOH’s journey has not merely been one of presence, but of immersion.
Commissioner. Adviser. Technocrat. Deputy Governor. Each role, a layer. Each layer, a refinement.
Over 2 decades within the engine room of governance is not just experience, it is institutional memory.
It is the rare ability to read not only the moment, but the machinery behind it.
Experience, in this context, is not a cliché. It is capital.
Yet, beyond the dossier lies something even more telling, temperament.
In a political climate where ambition often outpaces restraint, KOH has mastered the art of calibrated patience. Twice, the path beckoned. Twice, he stepped back, without rupture, without resentment, without spectacle.
That is not merely loyalty. It is strategic composure.
It suggests a man who understands that power, when prematurely grasped, can diminish, but when patiently earned, can endure.
And so, if the party’s final calculus affirms what the signals already suggest turbulence?
That answer will determine everything.
For now, the board is set. The actors are in position.
And somewhere, between calculation & consensus, a decision is nearing form.
When it finally arrives, it will not merely introduce candidates.
It will define direction.
And in Lagos, direction is never just about movement,
it is about legacy.
