A Nigerian/American based Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Annmom Founder for Mother’s Welfare, has called on residents of Lagos to shun ethnic and religious sentiments in their choice of whom they will vote for as their governor on Saturday.
The group’s coordinator, Ms Ann Ehigiator, in a statement on Thursday, asked Lagos voters to cast their votes wisely and shouldn’t allow any ethnic jingoist to confuse them.
However, Ehigiator canvassed support for the incumbent governor of the state, Babjide Olusola Sanwo-Olu.
The coordinator who called on Lagosians particularly non Yoruba speaking residents to come out in their large numbers to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate at the polls, said Sanwo-Olu had been adjudged one of the best governors in the past four years.
“To whom much is given, much is expected. The governor has surpassed all his campaign promises in his desire to build a metropolitan Lagos”, she said.
She added: “We have come to address you Lagosians once again on the need to eschew ethno-religious and other anti progressives sentiments, come out en mass to cast your votes for the best candidate of the people who have shown enough zeal to catapult the state among the world best. So far, Africans envy Lagos being the fifth largest economy in Africa. So vote the incumbent governor so he can take Lagos into the league of the world five best metropolitan cities.”
She said the non Yoruba speaking Lagosians in particular should ensure that Sanwo-Olu who is the most popular choice among Lagosians is shown an overwhelming love at the polls by giving him overwhelming victory at the end of the 2023 gubernatorial contest.
The Bini, Edo state-born mobiliser stated voting the incumbent governor means voting a more prosperous, secured and accommodative Lagos.
Another member of the group and the national Coordinator, APC Coalition for Mass Mobilitation, Comrade Musa Aliyu Otigba, said Sanwo-Olu and APC have done their best to build a greater, stronger and more egalitarian state where no citizen is discriminated upon.
He wants Lagos voters to vote continuity in massive development across sectors of the economy and superlative governance in the state.
Annmom Foundation is registered in both Nigeria and the United States of America, and has also been involved in identifying and mobilising for ‘best candidates’ for political offices in Nigeria and in diaspora.
