Primary Election: Ambode Starts Campaign,Trains 1,960 Agents

Tayo Olanipekun

Ahead of the Saturday’s direct primary election, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has inaugurated the Ambode Campaign Organisation (ACO) coordinators and offices in the the state.

This is as he also approved a specialised training for 1,960 personnel that will serve as agents for the election in all the 245 wards of the 20 local government areas of Lagos State.

The Directorate of Media and Strategy of ACO, in a press statement on Thursday, said the agents were selected and trained “to be the eyes and ears of Governor Ambode as the candidate of choice in the primary election.”

The agents have also been tutored to be vigilant and conduct themselves in a peaceful and orderly manner as loyal members of the All Progressives Congress (APC), according to the statement.

Their conduct should show they “want the best for the party and for democracy by ensuring that the best candidate emerges on a level playing ground,” it noted.

Governor Ambode had, on Wednesday, reiterated his intention to participate in Saturday’s primary election in line with the preference of the party and the influential Governor’s Advisory Council (GAC).

His position has sent jubilation and encouragement to the teeming supporters of the governor who believe that Ambode deserves a second term in office in order to consolidate on his numerous landmark socio-infrastructural achievements in the past three and half years.

In his declaration on Wednesday, Ambode had stated his intention to seek re-election with a “grateful heart, open arms and a pledge to open and deeper attention to the concerns of this one, big family.”

He also stated that a return of the party’s ticket to him will “guarantee the stability of the state’s growing economy; ensure continuation of the growth and development it has witnessed over time and ensure that the opposition does not take root in Lagos State.”

Meanwhile, buoyed by the governor’s genuine commitment to the development of the state as well as his gratitude and reference to the National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and elders of the party in the state, several special interest groups in Lagos APC have endorsed the governor’s candidacy, insisting that his sterling performance and reconciliatory conduct should earn him the deserved second term in office.