We Are Strongly Behind APC, Tinubu – Badagry Royal Fathers

Traditional rulers from Badagry Division of Lagos State
have pledged their total support for the All Progressives
Congress (APC), following the emergency of Mr Cornelius
Ojelabi as the Lagos party Chairman.
The royal fathers pledged the commitment in Lagos in a
communique issued at the end of a parley organised by
the Lagos APC Chairman-elect, Mr Cornelius Ojelabi, for
traditional leaders from the division.
Reading the communique after the meeting, Mr Tolani
Sule, Assistant Secretary, Badagry Division Leaders’
Forum, said that the royal fathers thanked APC National
Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for Ojelabi’s
emergence as APC Chairman in the state.
“The entire kingdoms in Badagry Division recognise and
appreciate the goodness in the choice of our son, Hon.
Cornelius Ojelabi, as the Chairman of APC in Lagos State.
“We resolved that we are strongly behind the All
Progressives Congress. The entire traditional leaders
from Badagry Division pledged our continuous support for
the ruling APC.
“We are grateful for all the developmental projects
ongoing in our division, and we call for more,” Sule read.
He said that the meeting would hold at least once every
year.
“We also agreed that there should be unrestricted
communication between Obas and governments,” he said.
Speaking after the meeting, the traditional leaders
promised to mobilise support for APC in the 2023 general
elections.
Oba Momodu Afolabi-Ashafa, the Onijanikin of Ijanikin
Kingdom, told newsmen that the meeting availed the royal
fathers the opportunity to understand more about the party
and the government.
He called on the party to do more for the Badagry
Division, saying that efforts should be intensified to
complete Lagos-Badagry Expressway, among others
projects.
Prince Rabiu Oluwa, the APC apex leader, Badagry
Division, and the APC West Senatorial Leader, said that,
with the choice of Ojelabi, the party would be better.
Princess Adebisi Sosan, a former Lagos State Deputy
Governor, said that the royal fathers had to rise up and
support the party with the ceding of the party’s topmost
seat to the division.
“This is the party Obas must put in everything to cooperate
with.
“No matter the challenges anyone is going through, we
need to stand and identify with this party and make this
party to be successful,” she said.
In his remarks, Ojelabi, thanked Tinubu, Gov. Babajide
Sanwo-Olu and other APC leaders for the mandate.
He said that he would need the support of all, including
the traditional institution to succeed
“Charity begins at home, I am from Babagry Division and I
think it is important to come and present myself to my
people and appreciate their commitment and prayers in
the course of attaining this position.
“That particular mandate belongs to them. I am only
holding the mandate for them. I am soliciting their
support. Badagry Division must invest in APC in terms of
votes,” he said.
No fewer than 30 royal fathers attended the occasion.