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<\/p>\nThe party spoke through Chief Sunny Ajose, its Deputy Chairman, at an \u201dAppreciation Dinner\u201d held on Saturday night, to thank the residents for voting Sanwo-Olu and his running mate, Dr Obafemi Hamzat.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the dinner was organised by some chieftains of the party including Mr Hakeem Fahm and Mr Dele Alake, a former Commissioner of Information and Strategy in the state.<\/p>\n
Ajose described the duo as technocrats with great leadership experience, saying that they would serve the state meritoriously .<\/p>\n
\u201dWe thank Lagos residents for voting Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat and we want to assure the people that they will fulfill their promises and meet expectations.<\/p>\n
\u201dSanwo-Olu and Hamzat are tested and trusted leaders. Now that they have been given the mandate to pilot the affairs of the state, they will drive responsibly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ajose commended party members for their contributions to the success of the APC, and urged them to support the leaders so as to get the best from them.<\/p>\n
In his remarks, Chief Pius Akinfulire, a former chairman of the party in the state, congratulated Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat on their electoral victory, saying that their overwhelming success reflected the confidence voters had in them.<\/p>\n
Akinfulire particularly thanked Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a leader of the party, for his efforts toward ensuring victory for the party in both the presidential and the governorship elections.<\/p>\n
He described Tinubu as \u201ca great political strategist and a visionary leader\u201d, saying that his foresight had helped to entrench effective governance in the state .<\/p>\n
The party chief expressed confidence that Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat would meet the expectations of the people, and appealed to Lagos residents to support the incoming administration to enable it meet set goals.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Yetunde Arobieke, another APC leader in the state, said that the duo of Sanwoolu and Hamzat had the experience to move Lagos State to the next level.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that prominent personalities at the dinner included Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos, a former Commissioner of Finance, Mr Wale Edun, and a former Commissioner of Commerce and Industry, Mr Seye Oladejo.<\/p>\n
NAN, however, reports that both Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat were not at the occasion.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said that residents of the former federal capital city made the right decision by voting Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu as governor. The party spoke through Chief Sunny Ajose, its Deputy Chairman, at an \u201dAppreciation Dinner\u201d held on Saturday night, to thank the residents for voting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5661,250],"class_list":["post-111664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-lagos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}