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The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, Gboyega Akosile, has said residents of the State should be ready for a lot more goodies from the Governor and his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, during their second term in office.
Akosile said Governor Sanwo-Olu is very happy about the people giving him and his deputy a second term mandate.
He said the duo will meet the yearnings and aspirations of millions of Lagosians through the administration’s THEMES PLUS agenda.
Akosile spoke on Friday night during a political interview programme on Silverbird Television anchored by Chris Kehinde Nwandu: “Inside Politics with CKN.”
Sanwo-Olu’s spokesman said the Governor, who has made a lot of huge investments in transportation, education, health, entertainment, security, environment, civil service, technology and other critical sectors in his first term, will do more during the second term in the delivery of the dividends of democracy and good governance to the people.
He said: “The Governor started on a journey with six pillars’ THEMES agenda, which are Traffic Management and Transportation, Health and Environment, Education and Technology, Making Lagos a 21st Century Economy, Entertainment and Tourism, and Security and Governance.
“The Governor has made very huge investments in all of these areas.
“And part of our achievements in the first term, which we have not even ended, is the commissioning of the Oba Sekumade Road in Ikorodu (commissioned on Friday) among several other road networks across the State, completed and handed over to the public in the first term.
“Going into the second term, the Governor will continue with his agenda, but he is going to turn it into THEMES PLUS because this time around we are going to have things around inclusion, inclusion in governance.
“We are going to have things around gender balancing, whereby we give more opportunities to the youth and the women.
“Governor Sanwo-Olu in his wisdom together with his deputy, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, has tried to meet the 35 per cent Affirmative Action for women and even the youths, but going forward, we are going to be focusing more on deliberately including women and youths in all of the activities.
“So, Lagosians should just be ready for a lot more goodies from Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Dr. Obafemi Hamzat.”
Speaking on the March 18 governorship election in Lagos, Akosile said the victory of Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat was an affirmation that the people of Lagos State trusted them in the first term.
He said: “Governor Sanwo-Olu’s feeling about the election is in two ways.
“Naturally, he feels relieved.
“He feels happy and excited to have been reelected for the second term in office.
“But on the other side, he feels humbled.
“He feels challenged because he has said on two or three occasions since we won the election that it is more like a challenge for him and his deputy governor.
“Today (Friday) when we went to commission Oba Sekumade Road in Ikorodu, he said their reelection is an affirmation of the fact that the people of Lagos State trusted them in the first term, which is still ongoing and Lagosians are now trusting them with more works.
“So, for him, it is more of a challenge for them to do more.
“Because the people believe that they (Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat) can deliver more, that is why they trusted their lives in their hands for the second term.
“I think that is a very deep one from someone who understands and I appreciate the value of that thumb print that an average voter and almost 800,000 of them went out on the day of the election to cast their ballots for him.
“So, I think the Governor is particularly very happy about the people of Lagos S
