Barely few hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC reaffirmed its position of not review its guidelines on the 2023 general elections to political parties, the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, submitted his nomination form to re-contest for a second term on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
Mr. Sanwo-Olu was in April adopted as the candidate of the party by the Governor’s Advisory Council, the highest decision-making body of APC in Lagos and endorsed by the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju, Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
Addressing news men shortly after the submission of the N50 million APC’s governorship expression of interest and nomination forms at the International Conference Centre in Abuja, the Lagos state Governor, said his administration repositioned the state from what it used to be under the previous administration.
He said the state now receives the highest foreign direct investments compare to the previous three to four years due to the present safe and secure environment.
Governor, Sanwo-Olu who was optimistic of winning the re-election as a result of his impeccable performance in office also use the occasion to restate his call for power shift to the southern part of the country.
Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu took mantle of leadership of Lagos State in 2019 after the then Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, lost the party’s ticket after falling out with the APC National Leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu who refused to endorse him for a second term.
