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By Modupe Shodeinde
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged the National Assembly to consider amending the 1999 Constitution towards granting special economic status to Lagos State.
The governor, made this request yesterday, at the South-West zonal public hearing organised by the House of Representatives Special Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution, in Lagos.
Sanwo-olu said the continuous request for a special status for Lagos, was actually in the interest of every Nigerian and Nigeria, as a nation, because the progress and prosperity of the country is linked to that of Lagos. He said the need for special status had been sufficiently articulated and justified.
Represented by his deputy, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, the governor while stating the issues of state police and fiscal federalism as top priority for the state in the ongoing review process, emphasised that a special status for Lagos must be a concern, not only for the people of the state, but for all Nigerians.
