We’ll mobilise our members for your re-election, Methodist Prelate Uche assures Sanwo-Olu

Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Samuel Uche has assured Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu that all the bishops in the church will mobilise their members to vote for his re-election.

Uche said this when the Methodist bishops endorsed Sanwo-Olu for a second term in office at the opening session of the 39th Bishops’ Council of Methodist Church Nigeria held at the Methodist Church of the Trinity, Tinubu in Lagos on Tuesday.

In a statement by Gboyega Akosile, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, the bishops commended the performance of the Sanwo-Olu administration for good governance and service to humanity.

“You (Governor Sanwo-Olu) are among the best in governance we currently have in Nigeria. For this reason, I urge that you be allowed to go for a second term in office so as to complete the enviable projects that you started and others that are in the pipeline. All the bishops in Lagos will mobilise our members, our votes must go to Sanwo-Olu.

“Though, I am not a card-carrying member of any political party, neither am I partisan, yet I value people for who they are and not their political affiliation. I believe people like you are the one we should replicate all over the world. The Bishops’ Council will pray for you and other government functionaries so that we continue to have a very progressive and development-oriented Lagos State,” the Methodist prelate said.

Responding, Sanwo-Olu said: “I humbly acknowledge and thank you for your quiet endorsement of my second term. We cannot afford to fail. We cannot afford to give excuses. We cannot afford to give reasons, untenable reasons why we cannot take our country forward.

“I stand before you and I have said this over and over, with every fabric in my body, I will continue to serve the people of Lagos. We will serve them without fear or favour, ensuring that the greatest good is for the greatest number.”