Tumultuous crowd and enthusiastic reception characterise the renewed tour of the local governments by Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, the governorship candidate of the All Progressive Candidates (APC) in Lagos State.
The central message from the Epe-born candidate in the last two weeks that his campaign has regained momentum after the postponement of the election is the need to use the next four years to consolidate on the remarkable progress being witnessed in Lagos State by retaining the state for APC in the governorship poll slated for Saturday April 11.
Wednesday and Thursday were the days when the campaign train reached Seme border/Badagry and Ibeju-Lekki respectively.
From Topa Road and its environs, people trooped out to welcome Ambode, who had worked for three years in the late 1980s at the Badagry Local Government.
And the APC promised that his administration will complete the multi-billion naira Mile 2-Badagry Expressway and the light rail project, also ensure that the Badagry division, will be empowered to witness rapid development, especially in the areas of infrastructure development and job creation.
“The future of tourism in Lagos State is here. This is also an important base for agro-economic development. Our administration will place a lot of attention in these areas to ensure that Badagry Local Government and every area around here experience a new layer in the type of developments they are already witnessing,” Ambode told the crowd.
As if the Badagry/Seme border crowd was not enough, several thousands more welcomed him at Ibeju-Lekki where he urge the people of Lagos State to allow the “progressive governance that APC is known for” to continue in Lagos.
“While the whole world acknowledges the giant strides of the last 16 years in Lagos, due to the people-oriented programmes and creating management of resources, which are succeeding in making Lagos a true mega city-state, the international community, like most Nigerians at home and abroad, are unanimous in rejecting the current maladministration that is going on in Abuja.” To this Fulbright scholar, therefore, while Lagos is working and deserves continuity, the government at the centre needs the type of change that a Buhari-Osinbajo ticket promises, in order to redirect the affairs of the nation that is rapidly falling apart.
According to him with the freefall that the Nigerian economy is witnessing, Nigeria would be said to have failed, if it were a company. Lagos State, he stated, could not afford to let a candidate of the party that has failed Nigerians at the centre to inflict the state with the same type of incompetence and inexperience. His good news for the people of Ibeju-Lekki was that his administration will build a new airport and seaport in Epe, in order to bring development and prosperity to more people in the state.
Earlier on Monday and Tuesday, it was Surulere that welcomed him with a town hall meeting at Aguda, where he reiterated his promise to establish an Office of Civic Engagement when elected.
The previous week had seen Ambode’s campaign train stopping at Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Apapa, Ifako-Ijaye and Epe. Each town-hall meeting entertained more than 20 questions because Ambode believes that it is the people’s needs that will shape his programmes and policies, when elected, hence the need to give as many people as possible the opportunity to air their views.
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