It’s been about nine (9) months Isince I resigned as the head of LSDPC, and so far, it has been a pretty interesting journey, at some point, it seemed like a rollercoaster, but I was able to fare well and stabilize all of the expectations, both from the public and myself.
It has been an eye-opening journey, right from the point of being an aspirant, to a candidate and then going through all of the turbulent campaign processes, going around the 20 local governments and 37 LCDAs, having several meetings with all level of stakeholders and pretty much selling my campaign programs to everyone and letting them understand the different things I am about and the different ideas I plan to bring in. Debates, interviews, and more meetings, down to the election day itself and having it postponed again, and then the final election day with the anticipation of the results and finally I was declared the winner. I had to deal with post-election fever and the transition period.
It has been pretty interesting, revealing and engaging but in my own way I’ve had to create my own positive journey through it all. It has been a journey that God has personally helped me pull through and I have received massive support from a lot of people, from the entire leadership of the party to the teeming population of Lagos, from friends and family members and personally, I truly appreciate what the journey is turning out to be.
So much greater than what is behind, so we all need to be forward-looking and expectant because greater and mightier things are ahead of us.
My emergence as the flagbearer of the party brought about a sense of belief in what the party was trying to achieve, which was giving power to the teeming party flag bearers at that time. It wasn’t such a difficult call, just that a lot of people probably didn’t have any idea of my previous experience in governance, so it wasn’t turbulent in anyway, because my emergence as a candidate was something I was certain about and I had a lot of support coming out from that which was really humbling to me. Moving from that point, we believed that Lagosians needed to be convinced, we never really imagined that victory was a done deal, we rolled up our sleeves and got to every Lagosian, every stakeholder that truly wanted to hear us. We went to every nook and cranny of the state, visited almost every part of the state that we could identify.
I imagine that we communicated properly and sold our programs adequately and we ran a campaign that people testified to be unique and the most innovative in the political scene of the country. Having worked that hard and having it being capped with a victory at the end of the day, one has to be appreciative to both God and the people that gave their support throughout the entire journey.
