Some reunions happen in hushed rooms, and others unfold under chandeliers. On Tuesday, October 21, 2025, Lagos politics staged one of the latter. At Eko Hotel and Suites, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu presided over a gathering of the All Progressives Congress (APC) elite, a rare tableau that placed three generations of Lagos governors in one frame.
Akinwunmi Ambode came. Babatunde Fashola came. And Sanwo-Olu, once Ambode’s political heir and then his quiet usurper, played host. Around them sat the old guard: Mutiu Are, Tajudeen Olusi, James Faleke, Tokunbo Abiru, and the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. The city’s power architects filled the hall with polite laughter and political perfume.
Officially, it was a stakeholders’ forum. Unofficially, it was arithmetic. Lagos APC has entered a season of calculation, and everyone is counting something, whether loyalty, leverage, or the length of political memory.