The Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, for the 2027 general elections, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, has opened up on his plans for the state. He recently revealed that there is no agreement that he will only spend one term if elected, and Nigerians have been reacting.
According to him, he is grateful to finally be chosen as the party’s candidate after losing out in the process leading up to the emergence of former Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and current Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu many years ago.
Hamzat added that he intends to ensure 60 per cent of Lagosians have running water in his first two years in office.
His words, “Agreement? No, there’s no agreement.
Well, the truth of the matter is that my spiritual belief is that it’s God that chooses leaders. We don’t know God’s plan, so you must try. If you are canvassing to be a candidate and the party says no, it shouldn’t be a fight. I tried; I gave it everything that I have. Of course, you must try.
And God made it happen this time. Our leaders agreed. So, I’m grateful for that, but I must justify that confidence. And that’s all. So, if it’s not, it is not. The reality is that, at a time there can only be one governor.
Our manifesto is ready. We’re just looking at it because it’s very heavy. It’s about 537 pages. This is because there are so many things that we need to do. So what we are trying to do now is also to talk to market women, talk to drivers, talk to professors, talk to experts to see what should be the priorities going by what we’ve seen, and then bring it down, and prioritise.
Basically, some of the things we want to do is to even cost it as of today, so that we have a one-year, two-year, three-year plan, realistically, with a variation on price of 10 – 15 per cent, this is what we’ll need in the next four years. So that’s something that will guide our own thinking, as to what should be the priority?
For example, we want to make sure that 60 per cent of Lagosians have running water in the first two years. So what does it cost to do reticulation from Adiyan 2 to Ogba, because a lot of the pipes have burst?
The costing is about 97 billion. So how do we do it? Which one do we take as priority? How do we raise capital to do all these things?
So the manifesto is there from education to health. But one of the things that we’ve seen is that a lot of things need to be decentralised, and organisation needs to be better. And that, to me, is the bane of our society, as a country, or even as a region in West Africa.”
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