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Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos have stressed the need for the party to give the governorship ticket to former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, insisting that he has the wherewithal to transform the state.
A stalwart of the APC, Oluwaseyi Bamigbade, who spoke on Friday, April 19, on behalf of the stakeholders in Lagos said Ambode’s administration brought about massive development in the state, especially in the area of infrastructure.
Bamigbade’s stance is akin to the call by Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) for one of their own as the governor of Lagos come 2027.
According to him, groups are on a daily basis yearning for the return of Ambode in 2027 to continue his Midas touch in Lagos development agenda.
Bamigbede said: ‘’Within four years in office, he remodelled Lagos, making it an investment destination for big businesses from within and outside the country. He massively touched the lives of millions of Lagosians in every sphere such that it would appear as if he had been in office for a far longer period.
‘’He caused a paradigm shift, taking the government from the urban centre to the suburbs and opening up their narrow roads, giving them modern streets with lights that also link the arterial highways. It’s been a seamless arrangement that has prevented traffic glut on the expressways.
‘’Ambode’s health and education initiatives equally penetrated across suburbs in Lagos, giving opportunities to the son of a nobody to have access to free and decent education that would prepare them for the future. Understanding the place of science in the current educational system, during his tenure in office, Ambode established templates suggesting a progressive look into the future where science and tech will lead.’
‘’The Lagos State Neighborhood Safety Corps is a model for community policing and other state governments are now replicating it in view of the prevalent security challenges.”