If violence by extra-state actors on law-abiding citizens is the unofficial answer to any and every referendum in Lagos, be it in the form of elections or protests, then perhaps the Lagos State government, through APC, needs to re-examine its grapple on power—and the heavy yet frantic costs it keeps paying to hold it. 

Since his swift rise to governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has shown more interest in promoting APC’s mythical Lagos Master Plan than in establishing his own path, a situation that has made him politically unexciting.