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Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly Aspirants, LAHAA Forum 2023 officially kick-started campaign activities for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the Governor of the state Babajide Sanwoolu ahead of the forthcoming elections.
The aspirants who lost tickets in the last primaries conducted by the APC shrugged off their disappointments and declare support for all candidates of the party especially Tinubu and Sanwoolu.
The Central Coordinator of the Directorate of LAHAA in the Independent Campaign Council of the APC, Adeyinka Odukoya, said they adopted the ‘market storm’ initiative as a strategy to sell the party to market men and women.
Odukoya said they would visit major markets in all 20 local governments of the state with the view to capturing about three million votes for both Tinubu and Sanwoolu in the next election.
“We have promised to galvanize three million votes for Tinubu and Sanwoolu in the 2023 election and if we want to execute that project we have to go to the people that matter and we know that markets are places where we can find people from different strata of the society including religion, ethnic and social order. When we take the message to the market, we are speaking with all Nigerians. We are storming all major markets across the state to tell them about Asiwaju and Sanwoolu and they will, in turn, take the message back to their various communities,” he said.
Members of the directorate stormed the Onigbogbo market in Ikeja Local Government on Saturday to campaign for the candidates of the APC including Tinubu and were well received by the market men and women.
Adebiyi Adesipe, Coordinator of LAHAA Forum in Ikeja LGA, said it was strategic to kick start the initiative in his local government because Tinubu comes from there. He added that despite losing the party tickets, they were obliged to support all the candidates of the APC at the polls.
“We are behind Tinubu and Governor Sanwoolu; everybody that contested in the last primaries whether we got the tickets or not are solidly behind all of our candidates and are campaigning as if they are the ones on the ballot papers and we are holding our bloc for Asiwaju and other APC candidates. If we are saying we want to touch the grassroots and we didn’t reach the markets it means we are not serious about this election. We are not only talking to them at the markets about our candidates; some people have said they hadn’t seen our souvenirs, you can see that we have been giving them these; we also engage in what we call medical outreach where doctors and nurses are attending to these markets people free of charge.
“Asiwaju and Sanwoolu may not reach out to all the people but when you see us, members of LAHAA, you have seen our leaders and we can take back to them the feedback from our people,” he added.
The Chairman of the Committee on Strategy and Operations, Sola Akande, added that “Asiwaju and Governor Sanwoolu are easy to sell because we have seen what they have done in the past; they are tested and trusted. Asiwaju was a Governor in Lagos and we all saw how he turned around the fortunes of the state and the blueprint for development he masterminded which his successor has been implementing. Secondly, Sanwoolu has done a tremendous job within the four years he has been in office as we have seen even in the commissioning of major projects recently. These two people represent efficiency in governance and that is why we have come solidly behind them to encourage all Lagosians to accept their candidacies.”
