Coalition of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), under it’s convener, Comrade Razaq Olokoba, Friday held a strategic meeting in Lagos where it Strategized on how the Lagos State governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu would win the governorship election coming up next week Saturday, March 11, 2023.
Addressing members of 31 civil society groups present, the convener Comrade Razaq Olokoba said the meeting was necessary in view of what happened last week during the presidential election where a supposedly non-existent opposition party the Labour Party (LP) defeated all other parties including the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
According to him, if the election was governorship poll, the story would have been deferent.
Speaking further, Olokoba made it abundantly clear that, “the CSOs don’t belong to any political party, but just want good governance under Sanwo-Olu to continue because our concern is welfare of the citizenry irrespective of which party is providing it.”
The CSOs’ convener, Olokoba said, as civil society groups, their duty is not only to condemn and criticize bad government but it is also about praising and encouraging performing government with a view to gingering it to do more.
If democracy is all about the welfare of the citizenry and somebody is doing it well, Olokoba saw no reason such a performing administrator should be stopped abruptly when he still has a constitutionally allowed period to complete the good job he has started.
In addition, the meeting reasoned it would be desirous to hand over Lagos State to someone without a prerequisite knowledge or experience of governance to use it as trial and error experiment.
The meeting came up with a far-reaching recommendations that would be released in a comprehensive communique later.
