₦airaland Forum

Niorte:
Tell us something about him then. You that know EVERYTHING about him.

My question to you.... Do you think Sanwo-olu can go ahead to implement a good policy he believes in if his godfather Tinubu says NO?

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu (born June 25, 1965) is a Politician from Lagos State who contested and won the gubernatorial primaries under the All Progressives Congress against incumbent governor, Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State in October 2018.[1][2] He is a graduate of the University of Lagos, as well as the London Business School, Lagos Business School and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Prior to his gubernatorial ambition, he was the Managing Director/CEO of Lagos State Property Development Commission (LSPDC).


Education
Sanwo-Olu has a BSc in Surveying and an MBA from the University of Lagos. He is an alumnus of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the London Business School and the Lagos Business School.[5]

He is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and Fellow of the Nigeria Institute of Training and Development (NITAD).

Career
Banking
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was the treasurer at former Lead Merchant Bank from 1994 to 1997 after which he moved to the United Bank for Africa as the head of foreign money market. He then proceeded to First Inland Bank, Plc (now First City Monument Bank) as a deputy general manager and divisional head. He was the chairman of Baywatch Group Limited and First Class Group Limited. He is a board member of the Department for International Development (DFID/DEEPEN) Fund and Audit Committee of Caverton Offshore Services Group, PLC.

Public service
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu began his political career in 2003, when he was appointed a Special Adviser on Corporate Matters to the then deputy governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro. He was later made the acting Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget until 2007, when he became the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry by then Governor, Bola Tinubu. After the General Elections of 2007, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was appointed Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions by Governor Babatunde Fashola. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu was made Managing Director/CEO of the Lagos State Development and Property Corporation (LSDPC) by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode in 2016.[6][7]

Some of his notable public sector achievements include the supervision of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) privatization projects.[8] He set up and was the Pioneer Board Chairman of Lagos Security Trust Fund. The LAGBUS System and the Control & Command Centre in Alausa were subsequently established under his directives.

Politics
On 16th September 2018, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu formally declared his intention to run for the office of the governor of Lagos State under the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC) Party, making him a major contender to the incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode.[8]

His declaration attracted endorsements from major stakeholders in Lagos State politics; including the Governor’s Advisory Council of the Lagos chapter of the All Progressives Congress[9] and members of the Lagos State House of Assembly,[10] which led to withdrawal of Dr. Femi Hamzat,[11] a governorship aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress APC in Lagos from the gubernatorial race.

He won the Lagos gubernatorial primaries of the All Progress Congress on 2nd October 2018

Awards
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has obtained a variety of awards in his career, some of which include:[7]

Platinum award from the Lagos State Public Service Club.
2009 Best in Human Capital Development award from the Industrial Training Fund (ITF).
Merit award from the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria.
Merit award from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management in Nigeria (CIPMN).
Merit Award from the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN).
LSDPC Impactful Leadership and Recognition Award.

Personal life
Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu is happily married with children to Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu.


SOURCE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babajide_Sanwo-Olu

Racoon:
The problem and trouble with Nigeria from 1914 till date.For amalgamating reasonable Nigerians with brutes & barbaric humanity, Lord Lugard will never find peace even in death.

As your father and forefathers found peace?

Yes, Lord Lizard is the problem of this country. He is the person that made the East-West road which was started during Obasanjo's regime to be uncompleted till date while billions of naira are allocated to it every year and looted by SS leaders.

Lord Lugard is the one that told James Ibori to steal several billions of naira and eventually end up in British jail while his people are suffering at home.

Lord Lugard is the same person that opened accounts for imPatience Jonathan's gatemen, cooks, maids and gardeners and thereafter deposited billions of naira in the accounts. After that, Lord Lugard then sneaked to tell Mama Piss Jonathan to go to court and claim the money while her husband was drunk on ogogoro.

Lord Lugard is the person that told Goatluck Jonathan to take a bribe of over $1 billion in the Malabu oil deal and share it with his fellow looters.

Lord Lugard is the person that used Diezaini Allison-Maduekwe's accounts to loot money all over the world. Lord Lugard then went to tell the British police to arrest her.

WE ALL MUST BE MAD.

The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, fixed March 8 to deliver judgement in an appeal the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, lodged to challenge the powers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to seize funds in bank accounts that were linked to her.

The former First lady is praying the apex court to set-aside a forfeiture order the Federal High Court in Lagos made on May 8, which granted EFCC interim ownership of N9.2 billion and $8.4million that were allegedly traced to her accounts. In the appeal she filed on January 31, Mrs. Jonathan formulated three issues for the Supreme Court to determine.

She urged the apex court to go ahead and determine whether section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related offences Act, 2006, which permits the EFCC to seize assets that are suspected to have been unlawfully acquired, is not in conflict with provisions of the 1999 constitution that guarantees the presumption of innocence of accused persons. Mrs. Jonathan’s lawyer, Mr. Kehinde Adedipe, SAN, told the apex court that section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud Act gave EFCC the nod to approach a court to seize assets it considered “suspicious”, without notifying the owner. He said section 6 of the Act provided that seizure and forfeiture of such assets must not be based on conviction for any crime. Adedipe argued that the Court of Appeal in Lagos was wrong to have upheld the interim forfeiture order the EFCC secured against her client, on the premise that Mrs. Jonathan was at liberty to apply and adduce reasons why it should be set-aside.

“My lords, what that section has done is to criminalise an accused person even without conviction. The implication is that by an application that is made ex-parte, an individual is assumed to have committed an infraction of the law. “Hearing one party and asking the other side to come back and justify why an order should be vacated, does not mean that they have been granted equal opportunity as provided for in the constitution. “It is reversing the onus, even without trial or conviction. The purpose of the constitution is to protect the citizens. “In this case, it looks like it has already been assumed that the citizen was guilty by taking away her assets”,Adedipe argued.

Besides, he contended that EFCC failed to state the nature of any unlawful act that produced the funds it suspected to have been acquired through fraud. He maintained that it was wrong for the anti-graft agency to rely on mere suspicion to seize funds traced to the ex-First lady. “There was no material whatsoever to back such suspicion. I therefore urge your lordships to allow this appeal and set-aside the decision of the Court of Appeal, as well as to dismiss the judgement of the High Court upon which the interim forfeiture order was made”, Mrs. Jonathan’s lawyer added. Meanwhile, EFCC, through its lawyer, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, urged the apex court to dismss the appeal as grossly lacking I merit, insisting that Mrs. Jonathan’s contentions were based on misconception of the law. EFCC maintained that it has powers under the law to seize assets that are “reasonably suspected to have been acquired with proceeds of unlawful activities”.

The commission told the apex court that the lower court had before it granted the interim forfeiture order, compelled it to make a publication, requesting Mrs. Jonathan or any person that had interest in the fund to appear and show cause why it should not be forfeited to the government. “My lords, instead of coming to the high court to show cause, this appellant ran to the Court of Appeal. “I urge your lordships to dismantle this appears and uphold the constitutionality of section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud Act”, EFCC’s lawyer submitted. After they had listened to both sides, a five-man panel of Justices of the apex court led by Justice Musa Dattijjo, adjourned the matter till March 8 for judgment.

The court however declined request to hear another appeal Mrs. Jonathan filed to challenge an order of the Federal High Court in Abuja that granted EFCC temporary ownership of two properties in Abuja that were linked to her. The apex court noted that the said appeal which Mrs Jonathan filed through Chief Mike Ozekhome, was not listed in the cause-list for hearing on Wednesday. It will be recalled that Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the High Court in Lagos granted interim forfeiture order against Mrs. Jonathan on the strength of an ex-parte motion by EFCC. The seized funds were said to be in the custody of the defunct Skye Bank Plc, Diamond Bank Plc, Stanbic IBTC Bank and First Bank Plc. EFCC had in a 15-paragraph that was deposed by one Huleji Tukura, averred that its investigations revealed that the funds were siphoned from the Bayelsa State Government treasury.
It alleged that the funds were moved when the former first lady served as a permanent secretary in one of the Ministries in the state. “The funds sought to be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria are not the 1st respondent’s lawful earnings but are rather reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities”, it insisted.

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/seizure-of-assets-s-court-reserves-judgment-in-patience-jonathans-appeal/

pyyxxaro:
Abeg who knows were I can buy bushmeat in Chibok Phase ll

Kindly check Tafawa Balewa Crescent off Kill-and-Go Street by Maim-and-Slaughter Avenue. You will see one Aboki selling very cheap.

baliyubla:
Can imagine how many Chadians and Nigeriens have been registered to vote. This must be the dullards blueprint to rigging the elections.

Now tell me who the dullard is. A man that has won election before election date or you online miscreants? I told you all idiots that by the time INEC releases 2019 presidential election results, Buhari's vote in the North alone will be more than the total registered voters for the whole country. You can then go to court and waste your time. The PDP rigged him out in 2003, 2007 and 2011, now he is back for a revenge. Never will generational looters lead by the Owu paedophile letter writer and the US fugitive together with the drunk ineffectual buffoon in Otuoke and the disgruntled ex-military Generals get near our treasury again. The end justifies the means, anything to stop looters from coming back to power is justified.

Memphis357:
2019 is going to be BLOODY!

What I heard from an All Progressives Congress - APC chieftain this afternoon is chilling

They are not campaigning with achievements as reasons to why they should be re-elected

Muhammadu Buhari is poised to spill blood where necessary as long as he doesn’t lose power to anybody !

2019 will be BLOODY

Don’t get excited or distracted with the wave of arrests . That is all a ruse.

The real plan is violence and the only to stop them is the Electoral Act as amended signing and he won’t sign it

They are poised for war!!!!!

Your blood will be the first to be shed.

If I wake up tomorrow and discover that the Lagos-Ibadan expressway which is currently 70% completed did a reverse and went back to the death trap that PDP left it for 16 years. Also if I discover that the new rail-line from Lagos to Ibadan which is about 95% completed is not more there and it was just Buhari's abacradabra. If I also discover that the Kaduna_Abuja rail-line is no more there and that the international wing of the Port-Harcourt airport which Buhari just commissioned has reversed to the pitiful and disgraceful way that PDP left it for 16 years. Then I will stop supporting Buhari.

Drnice2:
Even Comedians celebrate their wives. Please, when will Buhari(aka Jubril) celebrate his own wife?
I guess in Saudi Arabia.
"The Lifeless" says Trump.
Anyways, Happy Birthday to the Celebrant above.
Mine is coming up soon, who wish to attend?

When your daddy celebrates his wife, the woman that gave birth to a nincompoop like you.

Another idiot is about to be unfortunate in life.

Is this comparable to imPatience Peace Jonathan who was made the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education in Bayelsa State while she was living permanently in Abuja as First Lady and authentic C-in-C? A woman whose English is worse than that of Senator Ademola Adeleke the Dancing Senator with F9 in English as highest educational qualification.

If Aisha Buhari cannot be on the board of a committee against drug abuse, then what is she doing in Aso Rock?

GoTV:
What else will Buhari do to please the igbos? Second niger bridge is almost completed alongside Zik mausoleum yet these people are hell bent on voting Buhari out forgetting that doing so will cost them 2023 igbo presidency. I just pity those people

I think Buhari really messed up by adding a single block to that 2nd Niger Bridge. I thought their lord and saviour Goatluck has commissioned the 2nd,, 3rd and 4th Niger Bridges. Buhari should have allowed Igbos to be using canoes to cross over to their erosion ravaged land of crime and drugs when the bridge they are currently using finally breaks into multiple pieces. Ungrateful drug pushers and kidnappers.

Colourich:
You don't love her but you love having sex with her. You are not serious at all. You must marry her

Marry her for wetin? Was pregnancy part of the bargain? He asked her sex and she gave him good sex. Did she mention pregnancy as part of the bargain?

Eketem:
Beating you pulling out your hair but you are concerned about malice smh.

Go and beg as usual, weak annoying women when he kills you tomorrow people will be demanding empathy

How many years have you been married that qualifies you to put mouth in husband/wife matter? You think marriage is like boyfriend/girlfriend? My friend go and sit down in one kiosk and drink ogogoro as usual.

Lexusgs430:
Once an abuser, always an abuser..... You have given him the licence to be domestically violent with you..... Even if he apologies, it does not stop the DV.

You need to nip DV in the bud..... The same way keeping malice is a hobby to him, so is DV.....

From hair pulling, to slapping, to belting, to testing a knife.....

So, she should pack out of her home and move into your house. Or rather, she should go and learn Karate so that she can beat her husband very well and teach him the lesson of his life. I think your brain is not working, go and buy another one from skull miners in Osogbo.

The Bible says a wise woman keeps her home. Madam, what did you do to your husband that brought out the beast in him? But the husband needs serious counselling and reorientation shaa.

Passovile:
And this is the best, a nation with over 100 million people we could come up with a president.

Over 180 million people with over 100 million of them being lazy youths and IPOB miscreants with no future ambition.

Atikuloot come and see ooo. You have lost before election date. Check well, these are Buhari's women foot soldiers. Atikuloot stands no chance.

GuyWise101:
The evil hearted dwarf cum fake pastor is shameless to say the least.

This one is an unfortunate child. You will commit suicide after Buhari wins 2nd term.

Mr Dele Momodu, Nigeria's fattest fool. Please tell us PDP's achievements for the 16 years they spent in office apart from your untrained niece called Sofia that PDP's boy Davido made a baby mama

Okoyeeboz:
No sir, it is her father's consistent adultery that ruined the marriage.

And he is committing adultery with some people's Tithes.