I Thank Ambode For A Good Fight – Babajide Sanwo-Olu

Babajide Sanwo-Olu has thanked Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, for putting up a good fight in the race to win the governorship ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

While speaking on his victory on Tuesday, Sanwo-Olu wished the governor the best for the remainder of his tenure ahead of the 2019 election to elect a new governor.

“I think it’s also important to thank the executive governor of Lagos state, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode for a good fight. I wish him the best in the remainder of his tenure,” he said.

In his acceptance speech, Sanwo-Olu praised the APC’s national leader, Bola Tinubu, for his fatherly role in his emergence as the party’s flag bearer. He also thanked the entire structure of the party that endorsed him over Ambode and ensured his victory on Tuesday.

He said, “I think it’s appropriate I thank our national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has provided the platform for all of us, so many of us that have looked up to him, the fatherly role, a political landscape that one cannot take for granted.

“I want to also use this opportunity to thank the national chairman of our great party, the All Progressives Congress, His Excellency Adams Oshiomhole and the national working committee for giving us tremendous support, for encouraging us and for letting true democracy reflect, for sustaining this direct primary and for letting it be the true test of what it should be.

“In Lagos state, I think it is appropriate to thank the entire leadership of our party from the GAC, our numerous fathers, our uncles who have held on to this journey, who has demonstrated leadership to the highest level, who have demonstrated impeccable integrity at all levels, I think I owe them deep level of appreciation, I thank you.

“I want to thank the entire structure that we have in APC, from our national assembly members, distinguished senators from Lagos state, members of the house of representative, especially the majority leader and his entire team, the speaker and members of the Lagos state house of assembly.

“I want to thank all the 57 chairmen and all our 57 local government areas. I want to thank all our ward chairmen, our councillors.”

Sanwo-Olu noted that he’ll not take the party’s trust for granted and run an inclusive government if elected governor next year.