Governance starts immediately – Sanwo’olu

… as Ambode hands over

Governor-elect of Lagos State, ba baji des anwo’ o lu, says his administration will hit the ground running immediately after being sworn in.

The swearing-in and oath of office ceremony holds this morning at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos Island, to be administered by the chief justice of Lagos, Opeyemi Oke.

Sanwo’olu stated this Tuesday when the outgoing governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, handed over to him, in what was described as “private handing over ceremony.”

Sanwo’olu rode into the Lagos House alongside his deputy, ob a femi Hamzat, at 12:15 pm and held a closed-door meeting with am bo de for about an hour before emerging

to assured lag os ian st hat it would be an exciting four-year journey.

“We are excited to be here for this symbolic ceremony. we had a private handing over, very private. We’re happy with what we have seen. after the swearing-into morrow( today ), governance will start in earnest,” Sanwo’olu said.

To quickly breathe life into governance in the state, the state House of Assembly would be expected to transmit the 2019 appropriation bill to the new governor for his assent. The budget consists of N479.691 billion capital expenditure and recurrent expenditure of N393.841 billion.

The lawmakers passed the budget on April 29, after raising it from N852.317 billion presented to the house by am bo de in february, but did not to transmit it back to the governor for assent.

Governance in Nigeria’s economic nerve centre has been in a lull since October 2019, in the aftermath of the primary election of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC), worsened by somewhat frosty relationship between the executive and legislative arms in the last months of Ambode’s tenure.

Meanwhile, Ambode has said that all the decisions, plans, programmes and policies of his administration in the last four years were taken with the best interest of Lagos in mind and for common good of all residents.

In a farewell state broadcast to mark the end of his administration, he said the driving force with respect to programmes executed was to lift more people out of poverty and make every part of the state economically viable and livable.

“A few of our policies might have been unpopular but these were decisions taken with the best interest of our state in mind. with the benefit of hindsight, maybe we could have done some things differently but our intention was always clear, for the good of Lagos,” said Ambode.

He commended the people for the constructive feedback to some of the policies of his administration, which, according to him, helped to surmount challenges, saying it had been a remarkable journey to serve the state.