Ahead of the July 12 local government elections, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has charged all the All-Progressives Congress (APC) candidates, leaders and stakeholders to work for the ruling party’s victory in the council polls.
He urged all the party members to be united, work together and campaign in all the nooks and crannies of the 57 council areas to ensure that all the APC chairmanship and councillorship candidates win the local government elections.
Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke on Tuesday during a Stakeholders’ Special Engagement with him ahead of the 2025 council elections. The event, which was held at Lagos House, Marina, was attended by members of the Governance Advisory Council, Lagos State Executive Council, party executives federal and state lawmakers, party candidates, apex leaders and other stakeholders in the ruling party.
A statement dated 24, June 2025 signed by Gboyega Akosile, special adviser – media and publicity and made available to West Africa BusinessNews, further disclosed that Governor Sanwo-Olu said the message of President Bola Tinubu to APC faithful on the forth- coming elections is for the party leaders and members to ensure the party victory in Lagos.
He said: “Every election is local. Don’t take anything for granted. Go and work; go and engage. Go and touch everyone that needs to be reached. Let the people see those that they want to vote for. Let the people know the candidates they want to vote for.
“We must come out in our large numbers to campaign for our candidates. We must go out and cast our votes and wait for them to count our votes. We must wait for them to announce our results.
“We have come here to encourage ourselves. Let us go out and campaign for all the candidates. Let us go out and ensure a huge victory is for them. From the victory, let us see that indeed, the APC is a validly supported party in Lagos State.
“We are a party that is committed. We don’t take people for granted, and we want the best for our people at all times. We in Lagos State APC will abide fully with the constitution. We will obey and follow all of the guidelines that have been set out by LASIEC. We will do the right thing at all times.”
Speaking during the event, Lagos APC chairman, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi, said the Stakeholders Engagement was organised by Governor Sanwo-Olu to interface with the party’s candidates and major stakeholders of the party ahead of the July 12 local government elections.
He appealed to party members and stakeholders to support the candidates presented to Governor SanwoOlu and work to ensure their victory at the polls.
“Let’s work together as one big family; today our leader is the President of Nigeria, and we need to make him proud on July 12,” he said. Also speaking, the Leader of the GAC, Prince Tajudeen Olusi, appealed to all the candidates to emulate the good works of President Tinubu and Governor Sanwo-Olu
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