Hamzat’s alleged agreement-free Lagos governorship bid has alarmed landlords statewide, who insist even a self-contain in Bariga requires more paperwork than a peace treaty. The “non-existent” agreement is reportedly busy renewing itself.
Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat has stunned political observers by announcing there is "no agreement" that he will spend only one term as Lagos governor, thereby becoming the first person in the history of Lagos to obtain accommodation without signing one.
The National Cake's property desk was immediately dispatched to verify this claim, because if true, it is revolutionary. Lagos is not a city; Lagos is a stack of agreements with a lagoon attached. You cannot rent a single room in Bariga without agreement fee, agent fee, caution fee, and a document forbidding you from cooking beans after 9pm. Yet here is a man moving into the biggest office in the state, a waterfront property, fully serviced, security included, insisting the tenancy has no duration clause. Either Lagos has changed, or the agreement is simply written where journalists cannot photocopy it.
Historians note that the Lagos governorship has operated for two decades on the most sophisticated succession architecture in Africa, a system so smooth that candidates are announced the way weather is announced, nobody votes for rain, it simply arrives from a known direction. In this context, a man declaring "there is no agreement" is not denying the existence of agreements. He is telling us the negotiations went well. In Lagos grammar, "no agreement" is the past tense of "agreement reached."
Hamzat proceeded to outline his governance plans for 2027, which is itself a bold act of scheduling, announcing your programme for a house whose current occupant has not finished packing, in a city where the queue for the house is drawn up years in advance and laminated. Even danfo drivers respect loading order at the garage. But then again, this is a man who has waited patiently as deputy for years; in Lagos terms, he has been the "next of kin" on the tenancy form long enough.
At press time, the deputy governor maintained there is no agreement. The agreement could not be reached for comment, as it was busy renewing itself.
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