{"id":71411,"date":"2018-12-20T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71411"},"modified":"2018-12-20T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T09:27:16","slug":"why-igbo-man-will-be-lagos-governor-sanwo-olu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=71411","title":{"rendered":"Why Igbo man will be Lagos Governor &#8211; Sanwo-Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2019-Sanwo-Olu-replies-Agbaje-on-Lagos-having-two-governors.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that an Igbo man would someday become the governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu pointed out that Igbo people were already stakeholders in Lagos project.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu stated this at a reception where he was honoured by his Igbo friends with the title: \u201cUgochinyere Eze Ndigbo\u201d at the National Stadium in Lagos on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The governorship candidate said the Lagos would remain home to Igbo people.<\/p>\n<p>He said this is because they had contributed to its economic growth through their various businesses in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that Igbo people had not been found wanting in that area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne day, your son will stand here as the governor of this state, a senator in Lagos or any other top political office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Lagosian will fight an Igbo man because he is part of us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLagos will be land of milk and honey to you. We know that you are very relevant in this state considering your activities in the area of commerce,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sanwo-Olu pointed out that the peaceful co-existence between Igbo and Yoruba people would be worthy of emulation.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that an Igbo man would someday become the governor of the state. Sanwo-Olu pointed out that Igbo people were already stakeholders in Lagos project. Sanwo-Olu stated this at a reception where he was honoured by his Igbo friends with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69240,"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":[],"class_list":["post-71411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71411","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=71411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}