Sanwo-Olu
8 Jan 2019
There is the 2019 general elections and there is the Lagos state elections between Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu and himself. If you please, you can add his baptismal Igbo name, Tochukwu to make the personality behind the name different in your head. Only in your head. To the average Lagosian, Sanwo-Olu needs no introduction. He is…
4 Jan 2019
The subtle misunderstanding between the Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and Lagos chapter of All progressives Congress (APC) has ended as the group recently pledged to support the party’s standard bearer, Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu, and his running mate, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, in the coming governorship election. While speaking at a well-attended programme held…
12 Dec 2018
Lagos State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu has promised to ensure eradication of gridlocks on roads if elected governor in the 2019 elections. “I have come up with five levels of plans called the five pillars. The first one is traffic management and transportation, we are going to be heavy…
3 Dec 2018
All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Lagos Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the state has enjoyed prosperity under the party's administration. His major opponent in the next governorship election in the state, Jimi Agbaje of the People's Democratic Party, said the APc government in the has, overtime, put the state into a bondage. Sanwo-Olu, however, replied…
27 Nov 2018
The paramount ruler of Iruland, Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru and his Ajiran counterpart, Oba Tijani Adetunji Akinloye have both thrown their weights behind the aspiration of the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The monarchs told Sanwo-Olu to make the people of Lagos State the focus his policies when he is elected…
17 Nov 2018
Femi Otedola has endorsed the All Progressives Congress Lagos State governorship candidate Babajide Sanwo-Olu for governor. Otedola, who is the Chairman of Forte Oil PLC, was only last month rumoured to be running for governor on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, a report which he neither denied nor confirmed. A caption Otedola wrote…
30 Oct 2018
All love seems not to be lost between Lagos state governor Akinwunmi Ambode, his potential successor Babajide Sanwo and running mate Obafemi Hamzat after trio jostle for the All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos state governorship ticket. Ambode lost the APC governorship primaries to Sanwo-Olu, who was a former commissioner for establishment and training in the state.…
23 Oct 2018
Lagos state governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday said he is confident of victory for president Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Babajide-Sanwo-Olu in next year's general election at state and federal levels. Ambode lost the APC governorship primaries in Lagos State to Sanwo-Olu in October. Despite his failed attempt, Ambode has…
3 Oct 2018
Following governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s loss at the Lagos state governorship primary elections of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday, some civil servants have said they were relieved he will not be getting another term. The governor lost the party’s ticket to the former commissioner of commerce and industry Babajide Sanwo-Olu after polling 72, 901 while…
3 Oct 2018
Lagos State governor Akinwunmi Ambode has accepted his loss in the Lagos State governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress. "I wholeheartedly congratulate the winner of the Lagos State APC Primaries, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and urge all Lagosians to immediately support our party’s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections and work for the success of…
2 Oct 2018
There are strong indications that there might be a squabble between the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress Bola Tinubu and the National Working Committee of the party over its governorship primary election in Lagos State. The party after postponing the state's primary two times scheduled it to hold on Tuesday. However, after thousands…
26 Sep 2018
Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday expressed readiness to participate in All Progressives Congress (APC) primary election slated for Saturday 29 September. Ambode, who will contest the party’s ticket to earn himself a second term with two former commissioners, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat, has allegedly fallen out of favour with his political benefactor…
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