The Ikosi-Isheri Local Government Development Area (LCDA) has urged party delegates to vote for the former governor of Lagos State, Sen. Bola Tinubu, as the party’s presidential flag bearer during the forthcoming primary election.
The LCDA also seeks delegate support to ensure Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of the state emerges as the party’s governorship candidate.
The Executive Chairman of the council, Mrs Abolanle Bada, made the appeal during the Ikosi-Isheri Open Rally for Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu in Lagos on Tuesday.
She said, “We need to make it known and louder that we are on the ground come 2023.
“The primary is coming soon, so we have to make sure that we canvass our people, especially the delegates.
“We have to make it known to them that they should not betray us in Ikosi-Isheri and to ensure that we reunite ourselves and to ensure that we are one, particularly to Nigerians, that Ikosi-Isheri has the support of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.”
Bada said they all knew that Sanwo-Olu, who was their amiable governor, was a wonderful leader and a mentor that the people of Ikosi-Isheri had adopted for so long.
The chairman noted that despite all their underground support for the governor all this time, it was now time to come out in full to tell their people what this amiable governor had been able to accomplish in the state.
According to her, both the governor and his deputy have really performed very well in their first term, which means that their second term will not be difficult for them.
“This is why you have witnessed this crowd today and we will be adopting these two aspirants to emerge as the party flag bearers in the forthcoming primary election.
“To all the delegates in Ikosi-Isheri LCDA, I believe they will not betray any one of us because we have chosen the right people as the party delegates during the party primary,”
she said.
Hon. Femi Saheed, a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, said Tinubu had a bigger vision for the state when he was the governor of the state; therefore, he would do more when he emerged as the country’s president in 2023.
Saheed, representing Kosofe Constituency 2, said his vision had translated into the creation of additional jobs, the creation of LASTMA, improvement in IGR, improvement in road infrastructure, and improvement in the health sector, among others.
The lawmaker said Tinubu had shown Nigerians that democracy was a very good business in the country because he had already put Lagos at the advantage of development.
“This has now made us realize that if a man can put the state on the advantage of developments in the whole of Africa, then there is no point for us not seeking more to become the president of Nigeria.
“He is a builder of leaders because I happen to be one of the beneficiaries of magnanimity, so he has an institution. He is the only Nigerian that has an institution of leaders.
“With this, we know that he has the capacity, capability, and ability to move Nigeria to the place of one of the developed nations,” he said.
Saheed pointed out that Sanwo-Olu had been winning awards, which means that whatever they put out in Lagos happens to be the best.
He said since Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu had unflinching records, they felt it was right for them to call their people to order, as the critical stakeholders in the area, on what would benefit them if given the chance.