Sanwo-Olu’s New Plan for Lagos

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has laid out a new plan aimed at evenly decentralising development to other parts of the state at a recent session with the Organised Private Sector. Gboyega Akinsanmi reports

Does Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, really deserve a second term of four years? Has he lived up to the expectation of Lagos residents irrespective of where they come from or which party they belong to? Can he garner simple majority votes in the next governorship election considering the outcome of the last presidential poll in the Centre of Excellence?

These questions obviously form the crux of political debate that most registered voters have been dissecting in Lagos since electioneering campaign began in October, 202

Besides, stakeholders have largely been assessing Sanwo-Olu, using different yardsticks to measure his administration.

But the debate became more intense only last week after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) formally declared the flagbearer of All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect in the just concluded presidential contes

Even though they are at each other’s throat, the governorship candidate of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Mr. Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, have given diverse reasons why Sanwo-Olu should not be re-elected as the governor of Nigeria’s most populous state

While Adediran premised his campaign on the need to end the reign of political godfatherism in Lagos State, Rhodes-Vivour claimed at different fora that Sanwo-Olu had not lived up to the expectation of Lagos residents, hence the need for the voters to reject him at the state’s governorship poll on Saturday.

The campaign messages have obviously divided the residents of the state more sharply. On the one hand, the progressives are standing with Sanwo-Olu, citing his records of performance