Lagos state governor

Some governors who are aiming for second term and those who want their handpicked candidates as successors in Saturday's governorship polls are deploying.

But the Labour Party is sure of victory in the state. While he has reached out to the Obidients Movement and is doling out incentives to different groups a few days to the election, the odds are reportedly stacked against his return to the Agodi Government House. His support base has been boosted following the mass defection of PDP bigwigs to the APC and his adoption by supporters of former Governor, James Ibori. Okowa has also touted his achievement and is deploying new incentives to the people to woo them. Although he lost the Rivers State presidential election to Tinubu, his supporters who formed the Obidients Movement believe he won but was rigged out. The governor has also kept his promise to the 100,000 aides he hired a few weeks before the presidential election by paying their allowances.