Sanwo-Olu: Tinubu’s win for all Nigerians

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday described the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate as a win for Nigeria.

“It’s not just a win for Lagos only, but a win for the north, south, east and west,” he said.

The governor spoke at the Murtala Mohamed International Airport when he returned from Abuja after the APC congress.

According to him, Tinubu’s victory at the primary signalled the beginning of greater work to ensure he wins the presidential election in 2023.

He also thanked President Muhammed Buhari for ‘keeping to his words of ensuring an open, transparent, free and fair contest, and for leading from the front’.

Sanwo-Olu said: “It’s about the beginning of another journey to ensure our leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, wins the presidential election in 2023. I believe it will also be free and fair.

“I really want to thank God for sparing our lives and making it possible for us to be here. It’s been an eventful one week for us as Lagosians, the APC and Nigerians, so we are excited.

“Asiwaju’s win is for the whole of Nigeria, the south, west, east and north. It’s not for Lagos alone because we all knew that this candidate will come. And come February 2023, he will be elected president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, by the grace of God.

“His win also signifies the beginning of more work. As you can see that almost immediately after winning the primary, he has gone ahead to open his hand of collaboration and reconciliation to all aspirants. He is going around to consult, to bring forward his brothers and sisters, telling them it’s not something that one person can do. He will lead from the front, but he needs everyone on the journey.

“Asiwaju Tinubu will use his experience, clarity of knowledge, transformational leadership to make Nigeria work. We are all testament to his ability to have led Lagos through a difficult time, and how Lagos has continued to remain the melting point of our country.

“Tinubu is a completely detribalised Nigerian, with high level of religious tolerance and has made friends and competitors across the country. He will be going with those wealth of experience to the office of president, and I believe that at the end of the day, all of us will be the beneficiaries.”