Afrigather …We’re going to rework Edo to an enviable state — Okpebholo
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Saturday assured Edo State Governor-elect, Monday Okpebholo, of his help, saying he is not going to stroll alone when he assumes workplace as Edo State Governor.
Governor Sanwo-Olu spoke when he acquired Senator Okpebholo, who paid him a ‘Thank You Go to’ at Lagos Home, Marina, after his victory within the final Saturday’s governorship election in Edo State.
Sanwo-Olu assured Okpebholo that Lagos State would help him along with her developmental template and crucial concepts that can make him succeed as Governor of Edo State.
He mentioned: “We’re excited and glad that you’ve got used Lagos as the place to begin to hunt blessing and to acknowledge the very small and modest help that we gave.
“On behalf of the individuals and authorities of Lagos State, we need to congratulate you. Like you could have mentioned, your successful is for all Edo individuals, and all people ought to be a part of fingers with you to develop Edo State.
“I need to guarantee you that you’re not the primary that Lagos will likely be supporting by way of the developmental template. We’ll make all of our companies that we consider may converse to the wants of Edo accessible to you. We’ll make concepts that we’ve got used to take Lagos ahead, and we are going to give them to you.
“Lagos will stand with you. We’ll help you. We will provide you with all that you simply require of us to make the perfect of your time as a governor.”
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Governor Sanwo-Olu, whereas urging the individuals of Edo State to rally round Senator Okpebholo, requested them to help him to make Edo State higher.
He mentioned, “All of your different contestants ought to come collectively and work with you as a way to develop Edo State. I consider that’s the proper factor to say and do.
“Election is over for now. So, it’s so that you can be sure that you get each Edo citizen who actually needs to serve and help to return out to render that type of help as a result of it is just whenever you all try this that Edo individuals may be higher off for it.
“You might have the center to remodel the state. You might have the center to the touch the lives of the individuals. You might have the center to make life significant to your individuals, and that’s what we’re believing and hoping that you’re going to do.”
Talking earlier, Okpebholo mentioned he and his group are in Lagos for a ‘Thank You Go to’ to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to understand him for his help over the past governorship election.
The governor-elect, who was accompanied by his deputy, Dennis Idahosa, Deputy Governor of Edo State, Phillip Shuaibu and a few APC chieftains, thanked Governor Sanwo-Olu for his help in the course of the Edo governorship marketing campaign and requested the Lagos Governor to proceed to help him when he assumes workplace.
He mentioned: “I’m right here not solely as a result of I need to thanks; I additionally need to draw out of your wealth of expertise. I additionally need you to know that you simply shouldn’t go away me alone. We’re brothers, and we’re APC.
“We’ll proceed to hunt your (Governor Sanwo-Olu) steady help and prayers. With this, we predict we are going to make it huge for Edo individuals.
“My message to these exterior there may be that there have to be a winner, and I’m extending my fingers of fellowship to all of them to return out, and whichever concepts they’ve, they need to come and help us in order that we use the thought for us to develop Edo State.
“We’re going to rework Edo to an enviable state. Edo goes to expertise a brand new transformation. Come November 12, we’d be taking on from the place Obaseki stopped, and I want Obaseki nicely for the remaining days in workplace.”
