YOU PROVED ME WRONG, FAYOSE HAILS SANWO-OLU
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Former Ekiti State governor Ayodele Fayose says Lagos State governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has proved the projections of stakeholders in the nation’s economic nerve centre wrong with his performance.
Fayose stated this on Wednesday during the Commissioning of Ikeja GRA Network of Roads in the state capital.
Fayose, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), resident in the Ikeja GRA, applauded the All Progressives Congress (APC) administration in Lagos for elevating the state capital to the same status as the highbrow Ikoyi area. “This place is now our own Ikoyi…You and your deputy have turned GRA to Ikoyi GRA,” Fayose said.
The ex-Ekiti governor also said though a member of the PDP, he would support the incumbent governor of Ekiti, Biodun Oyebanji, of the APC, for reelection in 2026.
Fayose said, “I am one Nigerian who will not say what I don’t mean even if they will kill me. I will say it. I am not a member of APC, let me put that on record again. I am not a member of APC and I will never be a member but I will not shy away from the fact that what is good is good.
“When the news of your nomination came about six years ago, (there were) so many reservations but you have proved the bookmakers wrong including myself. All the bookmakers, you have proved us wrong that it is not the colour of the pack but what is right inside that thing. You are a different breed of politician.
“You brought everybody together like my governor in Ekiti, Oyebanji, brought everybody together. I always tell people who care to listen, I am a PDP member but I will support Oyebanji in the next election. It is not about politics, it is who Oyebanji is.”
On his part, Sanwo-Olu pledged to spread infrastructural development across all the 20 local government areas of the state. “No part of the state will be left untouched or behind,” he said.
Sanwo-Olu’s walk to becoming Lagos governor in 2019 was stormy as he had to contend the APC ticket with Akinwunmi Ambode, the then-governor who sought reelection and had won the hearts of many Lagosians with his infrastructural signature across the state. Backed by Lagos powerbroker Bola Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu trounced Ambode at the party’s primary and subsequently won the 2019 governorship election in the state. He was later reelected in 2023.
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