{"id":2261,"date":"2018-10-03T14:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madhousereport.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:56:18","slug":"ambode-finally-congratulates-sanwo-olu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"Ambode Finally Congratulates Sanwo-Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. AKINWUNMI AMBODE, ON THE APC LAGOS STATE GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARIES ON WEDNESDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2018<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Fellow Lagosians, the last few days have witnessed intense political activities that have gripped the attention of the nation and created palpable tension in the polity. I strongly believe that the time has now come for the State to move forward in order that the gains of the last three and half years are not lost.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Dear Lagosians, APC is a great party and the interests of our beloved State must always supercede that of any person or group. It is in this regard that I wholeheartedly congratulate the winner of the Lagos State APC Primaries, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and urge all Lagosians to immediately support our party\u2019s gubernatorial candidate in the 2019 elections and work for the success of our dear party.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As Governor, I will do everything possible to ensure a smooth transition in the remaining period of this administration and ultimately to the new Governor, come May 2019.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I therefore appeal to all our party members that we remain one family and unite behind the candidate of the party, so that we can continue to move this state forward.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The progress of Lagos state is non-negotiable. It is a project that I have passionately worked for in the last three and half years as your Governor and one to which I will forever be devoted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I wish to use this opportunity to thank our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the leadership of our great party at state and national levels, all party faithfuls and all Lagosians.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I thank all Lagosians for their faith and trust in me. I urge you not to relent in your support for our party as we prepare for the General Elections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Long Live Nigeria<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Long Live Lagos State<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Long Live APC<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Itesiwaju Ipinle Eko, lo jewa Logun<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">HIS EXCELLENCY,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">MR. AKINWUNMI AMBODE<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">GOVERNOR, LAGOS STATE<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">3rd October, 2018<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDRESS DELIVERED BY THE GOVERNOR OF LAGOS STATE, HIS EXCELLENCY, MR. AKINWUNMI AMBODE, ON THE APC LAGOS STATE GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARIES ON WEDNESDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2018 Fellow Lagosians, the last few days have witnessed intense political activities that have gripped the attention of the nation and created palpable tension in the polity. I strongly believe that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1654,111,1655],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ambode-akinwunmi","tag-apc","tag-asiwaju-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}