Sanwo-Olu: Tinubu demonstrated at UNGA that Nigerians have chosen well

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, says President Bola Tinubu demonstrated to the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Africa has opportunities and should be listened to.

On Wednesday, Tinubu addressed world leaders at the UNGA and spoke about his plans for Nigeria and the West African region, including working to restore democracy to the Niger Republic.

Speaking with journalists on Wednesday, Sanwo-Olu said Tinubu was able “to analyse the issues concerning Africa, West Africa and Nigeria as a whole”.

He said that the president demonstrated that Nigerians have chosen well, noting that Tinubu was putting Africa on the world map with his speech.

“He demonstrated that Nigerians have actually chosen well, to be present at this point in time,” Sanwo-Olu said.

“He was not only defining what the role Nigeria will play will continue to play, but was also putting Africa on the world map in expressing that even with global challenges the entire world needs to be able to listen and watch the opportunities that abound in Africa.

“You know, Africa has been the whipping boy but Africa has not been unfairly treated, Africa has been the one that we believe, is the untapped future resource of the entire world.

“And he was able to put that forward to say that the world needs to listen and watch the potential that Africa presents.

“And he was also now able to take it further, you know, to all of the issues have been in West Africa, you know with coups and counter coups and the rest of it, that is not fashionable, it is so undemocratic but he was not trying to run himself over any of these countries.

“It was more of collaborative, that indeed, they need to be able to speak to them, and be able to reverse that very unfortunate trajectory that we’re seeing coming out in Africa, where coups are becoming the order of the day.”

The governor said Tinubu put the country on its path to take its place in the UN with his speech.

“We are on the path of ensuring that the renaissance of Africa is not lost almost and that the world to watch and the world should be able to carry Africa along and let us indeed give Africa its fair share, its fair place in global politics and in the economic agenda of the world,” he said.

Sanwo-Olu said Tinubu’s outing at the UN meeting was “credible”.