Ebonyi residents in Lagos pledge support for fashola

By RAYMOND TEDUNJAYE
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2011

The Ebonyi residents in Lagos have pledged their support for Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola in the 2011 polls, just as they conferred him with a chieftaincy title of "Omekafuluanya".
The Ebonyians who stormed the state secretariat of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), venue of the event in their hundreds, said the conferment of the title on the governor was in recognition of his laudable achievement in transforming the state.
In a speech at the occasion, secretary of Ebonyians in Lagos for Governor Fashola 2011, Barrister Princess Onu, said the governor has made enormous development in the state, describing him as leading light and inspiration to the present generation.
"Fashola is an outstanding and respectable governor, endowed with unparalleled intelligence, he is the father of the fatherless, husband to the widows and the backbone of the Lagosians", Onu asserted.
While adopting Governor Fashola for a second term tenure, Onu stated that the governor has been unrelenting and uncompromising in his vision for a better Lagos, where the dignity of the human personality will be respected and the future of generations to come can be guaranteed.
"Our mission here today is to support and adopt Governor Fashola as a consensus gubernatorial candidate in Lagos s state for the forthcoming elections in April 2011. I hereby concur in its entirety the address of the chairman Action Congress of Nigeria Ebonyi state and the entire Ebonyians in Lagos state and we pledged our support, loyalty and allegiance to Governor Fashola's administration", she stated.
In his acceptance speech, Governor Fashola applauded them for identifying with the prosperity and development in the state.
Fashola who also commended them for their peaceful co-existence in the state, further charged them to sustain and maintain same, while noting that peace is very instrumental for the economy of the country to thrive.
He counseled that they should always be in pursuit of what will unite the nation irrespective of the divergence of tribe, adding that " we all drink the same water, eat same meat, same fish inspite our difference ".
High point of the event was the decoration of the governor with the chieftaincy regalia by high chief Hyacinth Ogawgu, 1, who led an entourage from Ebonyi state.