Lagos by-election wins proof of peoples’ confidence in APC — Sanwo-Olu

By Emmanuel Awosika

The Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has congratulated Tokunbo Abiru and Obafemi Saheed who won their respective by-elections on the platform of the All Progressives Congress.

Sanwo-Olu said the outstanding margin of victory recorded by both candidates was proof that Lagosians retained confidence in the ruling APC.

Tokunbo Abiru beat his rival, Babatunde Gbadamosi of the People’s Democratic Party, to win the Lagos East Senatorial District by-election.

His counterpart, Obafemi Saheed also defeated another PDP candidate, Sikiru Alebiosu, to win the Kosofe Constituency 11 by-election on Saturday.

In a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Gboyega Akosile, Sanwo-Olu thanked residents for supporting the APC candidates and party leaders for working to elect them.

However, he charged the newly elected lawmakers to repose the faith of the people and preserve the tradition of excellent representation.

The statement reads: “I want to congratulate Mr. Tokunbo Abiru and Obafemi Saheed on their victory in last Saturday’s by-elections in Lagos East Senatorial district and Kosofe State Constituency II polls. Your emergence as federal and state lawmakers is a validation of peoples’ confidence in our dear party, the APC.

“Right from the commencement of the process, we never doubted that Tokunbo Abiru and Obafemi Saheed would win the elections based on their credibility and the massive campaigns in all the nooks and crannies of Kosofe II Constituency and Lagos East Senatorial District.

“The victory of the two candidates of our party in the by-elections clearly showed that APC remains a party to beat in Lagos, based on her achievements in the State since the beginning of the current political dispensation in 1999.”

“The successive administrations in Lagos have put the people at the centre of its action, resulting in several people-oriented programmes. This has continued to manifest in the voting patterns in the State.”