Governor Sanwo-Olu loves Ndigbo and has demonstrated this through consistent good deeds towards the Igbo. He, however, refrained from making these public because he does not want to play “cheap politics”.

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr. Gboyega Akosile, disclosed this during an interview on Tuesday in Lagos.

“Governor Sanwo-Olu has demonstrated his love for the Igbo in several ways. But beyond the Igbo, I’d say it’s his love for humanity,” Akosile said.

Giving instances, he said: “Take for instance, the family of the late Ndubuisi Kanu loves Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu because of his deep relationship with the former Governor. When he passed on, the Governor took the burial as his personal project, giving the late elder statesman a befitting burial. He didn’t say because he was an Igbo man, no! He looks at everyone as a Lagosian.

“You and I remember the case of Nigerian gold medalist, Chioma Ajunwa. Governor Sanwo-Olu redeemed a pledge made by the State Government of a beautiful house. Today, she’s a house owner in Lagos State courtesy of Governor Sanwo-Olu. What of the more recent one, that of (former Super Eagles Captain) Henry Nwosu, whose medical bills were picked up to the last kobo by this gentleman?”

Akosile also noted that Sanwo-Olu “appointed an Igbo man into his Cabinet so that there would a seamless relationship between him and the Igbo.”

He pointed out that “there are many good deeds of Governor Sanwo-Olu towards the Igbo that we have not made public because we don’t want to play cheap politics but truth is, the man loves the Ndigbo in Lagos.”

Sanwo-Olu, candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is favoured to win re-election for a second term during the Saturday, March 11, 2023 polls, which he is facing strong opposition from the flagbearers of Labour Party (LP) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).