GOVERNANCE

One Year in Office: Conference of Political Parties Pass Confidence Vote on Sanwo-Olu

&NewLine;<p>Conference of Registered Political Parties &lpar;CRPP&rpar; in Lagos State on Monday rallied support for Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu&comma; saying that all Lagosians should join hands with him to build the state and not be destructively criticized&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>CRPP made this position known at a press conference it addressed in Ikeja as it passed a Vote- of- Confidence on the governor&comma; saying what the state needed now was not rancour and bickering but love&comma; peace and unity irrespective of political and ideological differences as &&num;8220&semi;it does not pay to run people down for no just reason&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Chairman of the group&comma; Engineer &nbsp&semi;Taiwo Fatai&comma; said Lagos needed a goal driven and visionary leader&comma; who at the same time is community service oriented like Sanwo-Olu&comma; noting that in spite of all provocative utterances by mischief makers in the state&comma; the governor had maintained equanimity&comma; a political trait he asserted was in short supply amongst politicians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We believe that Lagos State needs a leader who is visionary&comma; goal driven and community service oriented like Mr&period; Babajide Sanwo-Olu&period; Therefore&comma; we ask that he should rather be supported and not be destructively criticized&period; Let us all join hands with him to build Lagos State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In spite of all provocative utterances by these mischief makers&comma; this great leader has maintained equanimity&comma; political trait that is in short supply among politicians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;In view of the foregoing&comma; CRPP&comma; Lagos State do hereby give Mr&period; Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu the Governor of Lagos State and his team a Vote- of- Confidence&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Fatai said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>CRPP chief&comma; while acknowledging what he described as landmark achievements of Governor Sanwo-Olu in areas of roads and infrastructure&comma; education&comma; health&comma; agriculture&comma; housing&comma; security&comma; among others&comma; said the group had been vindicated in its past assertion that the governor embodied the true picture and aspiration of the people&comma; with what it had seen so far&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>According to him&comma; the governor had within one year in office put some reforms in progress&comma; saying good governance was now in place&comma; while democracy dividends were now assured and secured&comma; adding&colon; &&num;8220&semi;His distinction between politics and governance in Lagos State is legendary&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Exactly a year ago&comma; CRPP and the good people of Lagos unanimously took a decision on Babajide Sanwo-Olu as our preferred candidate during the last general election no doubt&comma; the decision is now paying off today&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he recalled&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We make bold to say that Nevis an example of a true leader and a good student of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu &lpar;Jagaban&rpar; School of Leadership&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Speaking further&comma; the CRPP chairman&comma; who recalled that the mission the body set before itself had been to rate the state governor every year&comma; said it found out that despite challenges&comma; Sanwo-Olu had done his best and should be supported by all for good governance to take root in Lagos&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He&comma; however&comma; charged the governor to put in place more classrooms in the state to ensure that a maximum of 25 students to a teacher in both primary and secondary schools as well as employ more teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Also speaking&comma; Adejumo Adeyemi&comma; an executive member of CRPP&comma; called on the governor to pursue mechanized farming&comma; youth empowerment as well as security as he embarked on his second year in office&period;&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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