{"id":237995,"date":"2025-12-07T07:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/it-shows-nigerians-trust-our-partys-direction-sanwo-olu-gives-reason-for-governors-defection-to-apc\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T07:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T07:33:08","slug":"it-shows-nigerians-trust-our-partys-direction-sanwo-olu-gives-reason-for-governors-defection-to-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/it-shows-nigerians-trust-our-partys-direction-sanwo-olu-gives-reason-for-governors-defection-to-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Shows Nigerians Trust Our Party\u2019s Direction\u2019 \u2013 Sanwo-Olu Gives Reason For Governors\u2019 Defection To APC"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu<\/strong>, has asserted that the steady defection of governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) reflects Nigerians\u2019 growing confidence in the ruling party.<\/p>\n

Abia Radio News<\/strong> reports that Sanwo-Olu made this known on Saturday at the closing session of the two-day Progressive Governors\u2019 Forum meeting in Lagos.<\/p>\n

Sanwo-Olu said the increase from \u201cbarely 18 or 19\u201d governors in previous years to 25 today shows that Nigerians trust the APC\u2019s leadership and direction.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWe are now 25 progressive governors. When we began, we were barely 18 or 19. This growth shows that Nigerians trust our party\u2019s direction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While commending his colleagues for their commitment to national development and loyalty to President Bola Tinubu<\/strong>\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda, Sanwo-Olu noted that the unity and cultural representation displayed during the meeting were\u00a0a strong demonstration of \u201cunity in diversity.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stressed, \u201cI want to sincerely thank my colleagues for staying through more than 12 hours of rigorous discussions. It is never easy, but you all showed exceptional commitment to the progress of our nation.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYou came prepared, you represented your states beautifully, and Lagos is proud to host you. People back home will ask you for this cultural experience because you truly showed what unity in diversity means.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Sanwo-Olu, the APC governors used the meeting to examine key national issues, especially security and welfare, and agreed to submit collective recommendations to the president.<\/p>\n

Governor Sanwo-Olu further reaffirmed the forum\u2019s loyalty to Tinubu, whom he described as \u201ca father, leader and humble statesman.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cFor the past 12 hours, we have asked ourselves tough questions: How do we better the lives of our people? How do we support our president and strengthen our country by supporting the national agenda?.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have committed ourselves to supporting Mr President and ensuring his government succeeds and succeeds very well.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has asserted that the steady defection of governors to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) reflects Nigerians\u2019 growing confidence in the ruling party. Abia Radio News reports that Sanwo-Olu made this known on Saturday at the closing session of the two-day Progressive Governors\u2019 Forum meeting in Lagos. Sanwo-Olu said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":237996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2430,2431,2432,251],"class_list":["post-237995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-apc-governors","tag-babajide-sanwo-olu","tag-defections","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Lagos-Governor-Babajide-Sanwo-Olu-e1733771077870-1000x600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}