Winner of Lagos-East by-election promises to meet expectations of people

Winner of the senatorial by-election in Lagos East on Saturday, Tokunbo Abiru, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has declared his commitment to the agenda he laid out before the electorate-offering people-focused quality representation; ensuring the welfare of his constituents; working with his colleagues in the National Assembly to ensure special status for Lagos; promoting policies to improve national economic performance and financial sector development; implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); facilitating completion of all federal and state road projects in Lagos East; promoting ease of doing business; supporting the 5 for 5 agenda for police reform; supporting fiscal federalism and joining forces with colleagues in the Senate and members of the House of Representatives to ensure devolution of powers to the sub-national governments.

Abiru declared: “Within the limits of our statutory mandate, this is the time to make the aged smile; empower our jobless youths; minister to the vulnerable; secure the future of brilliant indigent children and support the implementation of the ideals of our party.

“To achieve these enviable goals, we are already in the process of establishing an Endowment and Empowerment Fund to actualize my private philanthropy. The Fund will implement different interventions we are coming up with in line with my agenda and the ideals of our party.

“Already, our team is perfecting the modalities for the implementation of all these intervention programmes. By the middle of January, we will unveil these programmes in full and begin implementation immediately.

“I thank our people for this mandate and promise to live up to your expectations. Thank you and God bless.”