LAGOS State governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, on Wednesday expressed his readiness to participate in Saturday’s direct primary election holding in all the 245 wards across the state where members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are expected to choose the party’s flagbearer.
Governor Ambode stated his stand in a statement made available to newsmen in Alausa, Ikeja, by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr Kehinde Bamigbetan.
Ambode restated his readiness in line with the choice of the party in the state and the validation given to the direct primary preference by the Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).
“As our great party approaches Saturday, September 29th, 2018, earmarked for the direct primary election to choose the candidate to fly our party’s gubernatorial flag at the next general election, I am happy to restate my commitment to participate in that process having procured and submitted my nomination form and having formally declared my intention to seek a second term to continue on the path of unprecedented growth and development that our State has witnessed since 2015,” Ambode said.
He expressed profound gratitude to the National Leader of the Party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; party elders and executives; GAC members; all APC members and every Lagosian “whose support, understanding and prayers have assisted me in no small measure in being used as an instrument through which our State has redefined the concept of greatness.”
The governor, while expressing gratitude to the party leaders and teeming members and seeking their understanding and cooperation, however, said a return ticket to him would guarantee the stability of the state’s growing economy; ensure the continuation of the growth and development it had witnessed over time and ensure that the opposition does not take root in the state.
The statement congratulated the co-contestants in the governorship race for the courage and commitment to the party and urged party faithful to come out en masse and vote peacefully in all the 20 Local Governments and 245 wards where the election would take place.
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