Ahead of 2027 general elections, a group Friends of Ambode (FOA) has urged the former governor of Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode to seek a second term in office in the state.
Ambode, who ruled Lagos between 2015-2019 could not secure his party’s, the All Progressives Congress ticket to contest for a second term.
He was succeeded by Babajide Sanwo-Olu who is currently in his second term in office.
But FOA however believes that the former governor has a lot to offer in the service of the state.
In a statement on Thursday, the National Coordinator of FOA, Barr. Kayode Adeyemi said under Ambode, Lagos witnessed massive infrastructural and human capital development, saying it could be replicated further if he is re-elected as governor of the state in 2027.
FOA said, “Within four years in office, he remodelled Lagos, making it an investment destination for big businesses from within and outside the country. He massively touched the lives of millions of Lagosians in every sphere such that it would appear as if he had been in office for a far longer period.
“He caused a paradigm shift, taking government from the urban centre to the suburbs and opening up their narrow roads, giving them modern streets with lights that also link the arterial highways. It’s been a seamless arrangement that has prevented traffic glut on the expressways.
“Ambode’s health and education initiatives equally penetrated across suburbs in Lagos, giving opportunities to the son of a nobody to have access to free and decent education that would prepare them for the future. Understanding the place of science in the current educational system, during his tenure in office, Ambode established templates suggesting a progressive look into the future where science and tech will lead.”
It says only a candidate of Ambode stature will mobilize votes for President Bola Tinubu in his re-election bid in 2027, urging that all the necessary support should be accorded to him.
FOA while commending Sanwo-Olu for his modest efforts urged him to support the re-election of his predecessor to consolidate on his achievement as he bows out in 2027.
