State ownership: People versus party.

Lagos is an APC ,All Progressives Congress, state. There's almost this certainty that whoever will be fielded as their gubernatorial candidate will automatically be the next governor.
There's the popular saying in Lagos 'Fashola is working...'. I do not dispute this statement. I voted for Fashola in the last election. I did not vote for the party, no matter the party he'd been in, I'll have voted for him. I guess in some sense that is naïve because I hear political analysts say sometimes that there's always a party agenda and the candidates do not deviate from them, however I think Fashola is not just a glorified head, I think he has a thinking mind of his own. Afterall, before APC was reborn it used to be AD, Alliance for Democracy, and then AC- Action congress. Fashola's Lagos is different from AD or AC's Lagos to me. I do not think Lagos is cosmopolitan yet but it shows potentials (Fashola's Lagos). Although agberoism is still purulent. I thought the reactivation of KAI(Kick against Indiscipline)which was established in 2003 by the previous administration was brilliant: lots of agberos were drafted. A subtle case of using a crook to catch a crook. And they were on fire the first two years of Fashola's tenure. Some of their memorable feats are the many arrests made of individuals(mostly Johnny Just come) at Ojota crossing the expressway, creating the road again at Oshodi after the market women had turned the expressway  to stalls, same thing at Akpongbon market... Sadly, I hardly see KAI anymore and the proliferation these days of agberos is unprecedented. As the government is no longer employing them, others are or is it still the government? Some days ago while leaving home in the morning I saw a wall of freshly pasted posters of Jimi Agbaje the ,PDP, Peoples Democratic Party gubernatorial candidate, when I got home in the evening all the posters were gone. Torn. Next day I saw some other posters of other candidates still under the PDP umbrella, when I got home, they too had been torn. My interest was piqued. Who was tearing them? This morning I got my answer. As I left earlier in order  to beat traffic, I saw two agbero looking young men who wore that neon lemon vest with LASMA(Lagos state Traffic Management authority)boldly written at the back resolutely removing the posters. Two things stood out; how do the posters constitute hindrance to free traffic movement? Traffic management is LASMA's jurisdiction afterall and finally, why did they skip the APC posters if posters are a risk to road users?
During the 2011 elections I went to Eket in Akwa Ibom, a PDP state. There seemed to be an unspoken law: "do not speak ill of the ruling government and definitely do not campaign for the opposing party ". The air was thick with palpable dread of breaking this law. I recall my friend telling me to keep my opinions to myself whenever we went outside. There were no posters of other parties just PDP. My question now is: does it mean that once a party has won a state, it forever owns that state? What if the next individual that the ruling party puts forward is inept and cannot deliver to the electorates? Are the people not free to make another choice? Why should the options be so limited?