In preparation for Saturday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary, Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s campaign team says it has trained 1,960 personnel to be “eyes and ears” of the governor in the election.
The Ambode Campaign Organisation said on Thursday that the trained personnel would serve as agents in all the 245 wards in the constitutionally recognised 20 Local government areas where the primary election is expected to take place.
In a statement on Thursday, the Organisation said the agents had been selected and trained “to be the eyes and ears” of Gov. Ambode as the candidate of choice in the primary election.
The contest on who will fly the party’s flag in the 2019 governorship election is between Ambode, Mr Jide Sanwo-Olu, the Managing Director, Lagos State Development and Property Corporation, and Dr Femi Hamzat, a former Commissioner for Works.
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It would be recalled that the Ambode Campaign Organisation coordinators and offices were recently inaugurated in the three senatorial districts in the state, with functional outposts across the 20 local councils.
The campaign team noted that while being vigilant and uncompromising, the agents had been trained to conduct themselves in a peaceful and orderly manner as loyal members of the APC.
Ambode had on Wednesday reaffirmed his readiness to participate in Saturday’s primary election in line with the preference of the party and the Governor’s Advisory Council.
He expressed profound gratitude to National Leader of the Party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; party elders and executives; GAC members; all APC members and every Lagosian.
According to him, their support, understanding and prayers have assisted him in no small measure in being used as an instrument through which the state has redefined the concept of greatness.
