2023: Refrain from politics of bitterness, ethnicity, Sanwo-Olu urges Nigerians at Independence Day
Ayodele Olalere
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State, on Saturday, urged Nigerians to focus on issues based campaigns and avoid politics of division and bitterness ahead of the 2023 general elections.
While speaking at this year’s 62nd Independence Anniversary celebration in Lagos, the governor said Nigerians must respect divergent views, realising the beauty of democracy lies in the fact that everyone can not share the same ideological and political views.
“What we want, and what is not negotiable, is a better country,” he said.
He further charges Lagosians to use the celebration to rededicate themselves to a “Greater Lagos’ agenda of his administration.
He promised his administration’s commitment to making Lagos a 21st Century economy, a smart city state that is prosperous and globally competitive.
The governor further gave the assurance that the state will continue to be the pacesetter of Nigeria in infrastructural development, industrialisation, culture and hospitality, technology and innovation.
Sanwo-Olu said in spite of various challenges facing the country, it has remained a formidable nation in Africa and the world at large, adding Nigerians have a lot to be grateful for, as the country has continued to exist as one strong country, recording progress on many fronts.
He used the occasion to “pay tribute to all heroes, past and present, those who have laboured and sacrificed, over the decades, and all who continue to labour and sacrifice today, to guarantee freedoms for all of us.”
