Abiru asks APC leaders to prove Lagos voting strength with bye-election

Tokunbo Abiru, candidate of All Progressives Congress (APC) in the October 31 Lagos east senatorial bye-election, has appealed to the party faithful and leaders in the senatorial district to use the forthcoming bye-election to prove the voting strength of Lagos state to the entire country.

Abiru, a former commissioner of finance in Lagos, has also pleaded with the party faithful to go from community to community, house to house or local council to local council, convincing about two million registered electorate in Lagos east to vote the APC in the bye-election.

He made this appeal at a meeting with the APC leaders in Epe division on Monday, promising them people-oriented representation and assuring them that he would always put people and party first if and when elected.

The meeting, which held at the residence of Akanni Seriki, a Governance Advisory Council (GAC) member in Epe, was attended Kaoli Olusanya, vice chairman of Lagos APC, Bode Oyedele, husband of Ogun state deputy governor, and Wale Raji, a member of the house of representatives.

After the meeting the party leaders leaders, Abiru had another meeting with the council of Lagos  Ijebu traditional rulers at the palace of the Aladeshonyin of Odo-Noforija, Oba Babatunde Ogunlaja, also in Epe local government area.

The monarchs, who were at the council meeting, include the Ayangbure of Ikorodu, Oba Kabiru Shotobi; Oloja of Epe Land, Oba Kamorudeen Animashaun; Olubeshe of Ibeshe, Oba Rasheed Ogunsanya and 15 others.

While he appealed to the monarchs and their subjects to support his candidacy for the bye-election, the senatorial candidate challenged the APC faithful to prevail upon the decided and undecided electorate in Lagos east to vote the APC and its candidate.

“We must use this bye-election to show the strength of APC not only in Lagos East, but also in Lagos State to the entire country,” he said.

“We must reach out to those who have decided for our party and those who have not decided for our party. We must prevail upon them all to vote for us massively.”

He, thus, promised to represent the APC and the people with integrity, commitment and passion leveraging all the experience, competences, knowledge and relationships he had acquired over three decades as an economist, chartered accountant, banker, commissioner for finance, senior banker and CEO.