Lagos will support Tinubu for presidency, Sanwo-Olu tells visiting Amaechi

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu told Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi that National Leader of the All Progressives Congress Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has the state’s support for presidency in the 2023 elections.

Sanwo-Olu said this when Amaechi visited him at the Government House, Marina to seek support for his presidential ambition.

The Lagos governor said being a direct beneficiary of Tinubu’s leadership, he remains a “rallying point” for the state and would get the state’s support in bid bid to be president.

He however wished Amaechi well in his pursuit to be Nigeria’s number one man.

“I have sheer regard and respect for our leader, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu. I have been a direct beneficiary of his leadership. I have been part of his cabinet,” he said.

“Personally I continue to tow that line of leadership and what he stands for.

“I want to say to you that you’re eminently qualified and I want to wish you well in this journey. Clearly, for all of us in Lagos state, Asiwaju has continued to be our rallying point, but the country is our country and we must continue to see it as the one that is indivisible and the one that we all rally round.

“I certainly know too well what your pedigree is and what you have done.”

Responding, Ameachi said it took a lot of courage to visit Lagos because he recognises Tinubu’s influence in the state.

“It is a difficult thing to even come here because we already know that our leader comes from Lagos state. And you come from that family of our leader,” he said.

“We know that our leader is eminently qualified to rule this country. He has led Lagos state.”