2023: Afenifere Endorses Candidate For Lagos Governorship Race

2023: Afenifere Endorses Candidate For Lagos Governorship Race

The Lagos State branch of the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization Afenifere has endorsed the BOOT Party’s governorship candidate in the state, Wale Oluwo.

Tunde Onakoya, chairman of Afenifere in Lagos, said on Wednesday that the group will “conquer” the tight grip of All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu on Lagos through Oluwo’s candidacy.
Onakoya spoke at the unveiling of the Wale Oluwo Campaign Organization in Lagos’ Anthony neighborhood.

“For us, we have been in politics for many years. The present presidential candidate of the APC (Tinubu) used to be a member of Afenifere, he came from the US (United States) and joined us and we know how much Afenifere contributed in raising him.

“He has left us and has not replenished what he got from us. It is through Mr Oluwo that we are going to conquer him,” the Afenifere chieftain stated.

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Lanre Anjolaiya, another Afenifere chieftain who also serves as the director general of the Oluwo campaign, stated that while the group remains committed to Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi, Afenifere will support Oluwo in the 2023 Lagos governorship election.

Oluwo, a long-time ally of ex-Lagos governor Akinwunmi Ambode, left the APC after protesting his exclusion from the party’s governorship primary on May 26, 2022. He later became a member of the BOOT Party and ran for governor of Lagos.

Oluwo, a former Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources during the Ambode administration, has promised to run against Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in 2023.

Oluwo said in Lagos on Wednesday that he had the BOOT Party as a “backup plan” before the APC governorship primary at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in May because he was aware of the ruling party’s “antics.”

“I am proudly Afenifere, and I believe in the time-tested Afenifere ethos and programs enunciated by Chief Obafemi Awolowo and his subsequent successors under the philosophical caption of ‘Freedom for all and life more abundant,’” he said.

Oluwo pledged to “return the wealth of Lagos to the people of Lagos,” “birth a fairer Lagos that creates opportunity for all, not just a few,” and “reposition Lagos as a globally competitive investment destination,” among other things.

The BOOT Party governorship candidate stated that his campaign platform will be available in the coming weeks. He also launched the party’s “solution series,” which he said would address some of the major challenges that Lagosians face, such as energy and transportation.

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