Sanwo-Olu’s emergence saved Lagos from wrong direction –Tinubu
Afeez Hanafi
The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, said Lagos State was heading in a wrong direction within 2017-2018 before the incumbent Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was elected.
The former state governor said upon assumption of office, Sanwo-Olu had turned the ship of the state into the right direction.
Tinubu disclosed this on Friday at the opening of 1.4km-long Agege Pen Cinema flyover which commenced in December 2017 during the administration of ex-Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who was absent at the inauguration.
He said Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, had shown good leadership quality since they took on the mantle of governance.
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) - The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has enjoined d youths not to copy "vagabonds", saying that destruction
Lagos State was heading in a wrong direction within 2017-2018 before the incumbent Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, was elected, the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Bola Tinubu, has said.
Tinubu said upon assumption of office, Sanwo-Olu had turned the ship of the state into the right direction.
The former state governor disclosed this on Friday at the opening of 1.4km-long Agege Pen Cinema flyover which commenced in December 2017 during the administration of ex-Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, who was absent at the inauguration.
Tinubu said Sanwo-Olu and his Deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, had shown good leadership quality since they took on the mantle of governance.
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A former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Bode George, has said the ship of Lagos has been going in the wrong direction since All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, took over control of the state.
George spoke in an exclusive interview with
The PUNCH on Saturday in reaction to comments by Tinubu that the ship of Lagos was heading in a wrong direction within 2017 and 2018 before incumbent Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Tinubu had made the comments on Friday during the inauguration of the 1.4 kilometre-long Agege-Pen Cinema Bridge.
The former Lagos governor between 1999 and 2007 had said, “Sometime in 2017-2018, the ship of this state seemed to have headed in a very wrong direction. History had it that we came together, an election came and we chose a democratically-elected government of the people, our people, and for the people. They say ‘who is Babajide Sanwo-Olu’? We said, ‘you will find
Sanwo-Olu inaugurates 1.4km Agege Flyover
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Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State.
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Friday inaugurated the 1.4km Dual Carriageway Flyover Bridge in Pen Cinema Junction, Agege.
Speaking at the inauguration, Sanwo-Olu said that the flyover would reduce travel time and save man-hour that would have been otherwise lost to traffic on the road.
He said it would provide better riding surface, leading to reduced maintenance cost; boost interconnectivity and generally make life more meaningful to commuters in the state.
According to him, government will prioritise continuation of strategic ongoing roads and link bridges as well as development of new roads.