{"id":4181,"date":"2020-08-31T06:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2020-08-31T06:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:10:18","slug":"covid-19-reduction-lagos-deserves-special-status-in-honour-of-sanwo-olu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Reduction: Lagos Deserves Special Status In Honour Of Sanwo-Olu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">A pro-democracy group, Congress of Progressive Youth (CPY), has expressed excitement over the news that the dreaded Coronavirus code-named COVID-19 is on the decline in Lagos State, saying, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu deserves special honour for this achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Leader of the group, Comrade Adebayo Oyenekan, in a statement in Lagos weekend suggested that, \u201cthe award should be granting Lagos State a Special Status as the former Nation\u2019s capital that still remains the Commercial and economic headquarters of the country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Oyenekan said, the Federal Government should consider the request now bearing in mind that, \u201cGovernor Sanwo-Olu, with his current performance is capable of handling it perfectly that he would be able to sustain and even increase the 55% the country is raking in from the state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Going down the memory lane, the youth leader reminded that, when the dreaded COVID-19 first reared its ugly head in the country, it showed the potentiality of a disease capable of wiping out the nation, saying, Sanwo-Olu\u2019s prompt action safe the country of likely calamity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">He said all steps taken by him to curtail the menace were so impressive that two international bodies, the United Nation (UN) and the World Health Organization (WHO) did not hesitate to commend him for a job being well done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The young activist said, apart from provision of required gadgets to fight the deadly virus like kits, conducive Isolation Centres, medical equipment and necessary incentives, \u201cSanwo-Olu also recruited additional doctors to augment the efforts of the well trained medical personnel on ground.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">The highly impressed pro-democracy advocate also expressed the delight that, \u201cas Sanwo-Olu fights the deadly monster, he never allowed that to detract him from performing his duties in all the sectors of the economy,\u201d describing him as, \u201ca cool-headed and strategic operator who never loses focus on the onerous task of state building.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Oyenekan however did not forget to thank the Federal Government under the able leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari who he described as the true father of the nation, commending him for his support that contributed to the success of the governor. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u201cWe have to thank President Buhari over his support to save the country from the killer disease. Nigerians are appreciative of his good gestures towards humanity. He is a good father and he should be commended for being a good father,\u201d the activist declared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">He also gave kudos to the Lagos residents for their patience, endurance and cooperation with Governor Sanwo-Olu through their compliance with the preventive measures put in place to see to the end of the monster, saying, \u201cwith their cooperation, the ray of hope is already manifesting with the reported decline in the monster\u2019s power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">Expectedly, the group therefore seized the opportunity to urge the people to double their support for the governor so as to encourage him to surpass his present performance that earned him accolade across the globe especially his outstanding performance in the fight against coronavirus pandemic that has been reported to be on the decline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">While remembering the roles played by the donors towards the COVID-19 fight, the group leader, who commended them for their intervention however added that door of more donations is not close yet, reminding that, \u201cit is not over until it is properly over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pro-democracy group, Congress of Progressive Youth (CPY), has expressed excitement over the news that the dreaded Coronavirus code-named COVID-19 is on the decline in Lagos State, saying, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu deserves special honour for this achievement. Leader of the group, Comrade Adebayo Oyenekan, in a statement in Lagos weekend suggested that, \u201cthe award should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1652,2419,2741,138,2744],"class_list":["post-4181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-covid-19","tag-cpy","tag-lagos","tag-special-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}