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SPECIAL INAUGURAL EDITION
NIGERIA 2023
Chief Sunny Akinsanya Ajose (OON)
What is your take on rumours of Asiwaju
aspiring to be president in 2023?
It is the expectation of the general populace that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will run for the 2023
presidential elections. He has not even told anybody that he is coming out to run, but that is what the
people want. People are flying that kite, unfortunately, some people are jittery about it, but you cannot
throw away gold or diamond for just a raw iron. If the man is capable of pulling Nigeria out of its death
root, then there is nothing stopping him. He is Nigerian. He has the qualification, he has the expertise,
he has the knowledge and he is open to the people. There are so many qualities that the man has that
the others don't have, so you cannot just adjudge him by trying to blackmail him that he cannot come
out because that's exactly what people are trying to preempt, but I am sure when the time comes, we
all will see what the population will say.
This is the first time in Lagos State since 1999 that an incumbent governor did not get
the support of the party in Lagos State. As the deputy chairman of the APC in Lagos
State. Can you shed some light on this?
You are right that this is the first time in
twenty years that this kind of thing is
happening, it is quite unfortunate that it
happened that way but in our own case in
APC, we take seriously, the affairs of the
general populace and members of the party
especially the down trodden ones. We had
series of experience during the course of this
administration, however, the idea of removing
all the street sweepers from the road and then
incapacitating the PSP operators gave the
party leaders a lot of concern. As you can see,
there is so much garbage in every nuke and
cranny of the state which turned the state almost
to a point where it was during the period of the
military when Asiwaju came in before
restructuring the pattern of how we evacuate
refuse from all the homes.
Deviating from that, gave us a bad image both
locally and internationally and during that period,
there was fear of Lassa fever because rats were
beginning to have a place of abode in all the
debris that are all over the state. So they brought
in the vision scape. The concept vison scape
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