A pan-ethnic Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Egbe Omo Yoruba Ronu (Egbe), has advised the newly elected council chiefs in Lagos State to emulate Governor Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu’s administrative style in their day today activities in office.
Recall that the council poll was held throughout the state on Saturday, July 24, where 20 Local Governments and 37 Local Council Development Areas chairmen and Councillors were democratically elected. The victorious ones, who received their Certificates of Returns from the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), were sworn in Tuesday, by the state governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu.
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Convener of the NGO, Comrade Adeosun Adekunle, who gave the advice on behalf of his organisation in a chat with our correspondent said, “it is through that that, the required synergy between the state and grassroots administration would be possible for the betterment of the people of the state from the grassroots level.”
According to him, since the Local Governments and the LCDAs are the closest tiers of government to the people, thy are in the vantage position to identify the yearning of their people faster and act accordingly, stressing the need to do the needful promptly to augment the good work of the governor at the state level.
Speaking further, Adeosun reminded them of the governor’s advice at the swearing-in ceremony that, they should be humble, compassionate and accessible to the people, warning that, their new found status should not be allowed to enter into their head to avoid being arrogant and thus lose focus of their primary responsibility of catering for the welfare of the citizenry.
The NGO boss reinforce the fact that, “Their victories at the poll on Saturday were clarion calls for hard work and unequalled service delivery to the people that gave them the mandate to govern them,” warning that, “they should not let the people down so that the confidence reposed in them should not be betrayed.”
While admonishing them to be of high standard morally like Sanwo-Olu, Adeosun said, they should also imbibe the positive attitude and attributes that stand the governor out among his counterparts across the nation, pointing out that, “Sanwo-Olu becomes the cynosure of all eyes today globally because of his dogged efforts to put the state in its right and proper place on the world map of working societies.”
The group leader, therefore, stressed the need for support, assistance and cooperation from the people at the grassroots to encourage the newly inaugurated council bosses to perform well, saying, governance all over the world is a collective responsibility of all and sundry and not a sole duty of those in authority.
