The Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria have made public its intention to support Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Lagos APC will hold its primary next we
The Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria have made public its intention to support Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The Lagos APC will hold its primary next week to decide who will be its governorship candidate in 2019 election among the incumbent Akinwunmi Ambode, Femi Hamzat and Babajide Sanwo-Olu. At a press conference in their Mushin office, the PSP operators said they believed that Sanwo-Olu, if voted in to replace Ambode, would restore their jobs which the incumbent administration took and gave to a foreign company, Visionscape.
The Vice Chairman of the association, Mr David Oriyomi, said the decision to back Sanwo-Olu, was in the interest of about 25,000 workers engaged by the 350 PSP operators, who had lost their jobs. Oriyomi said the association boasts of no fewer than 150,000 voters at the grassroots, who would be mobilised to help Sanwo-Olu to achieve his governorship ambition. He expressed the confidence that not only would the emergence of Sanwo-Olu as the next governor of Lagos State help to revive the business of the PSP operators, it would also restore Lagos to its former clean state.
He said, “This injustice should not be allowed to continue, the health and well-being of residents of Lagos must be paramount to all. It is, therefore, with great hope that we welcome the emergence of Sanwo-Olu, who has promised to run a participatory government. For this reason, we, the Association of Waste Managers of Nigeria, have decided to align ourselves with Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and pledge our full support to him in the forthcoming elections.
“This decision was taken in the best interest of the environment. We remain committed to servicing the great residents of the centre of excellence. It is time to clean up our city; we did it before, we are able and willing to actualise the Lagos of our dreams. We did not just choose to support Sanwo-Olu; we looked at the aspirants. We have the incumbent, we have Femi Hamzat and we have Sanwo-Olu. The incumbent, we have seen what he has to offer when it comes to waste management in the state – there is nothing he can offer us.
“Then Hamzat, we have not heard much from his camp; but Sanwo-Olu named the issue of the environment as one of the critical issues that he is going to tackle,” Oriyomi said.
