The All Progressives Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has debunked Governor Akinwunmi Ambode's allegation made on September 30 that he once suffered from mental health issues and had undergone rehabilitation at Gbagada General Hospital.
He affirmed that he is mental fit to contest the 2019 general elections. He made this revelation on Sunrise Daily, a live programme of Channels Television, on Wednesday morning, while responding to claims by Governor Ambode.
The APC gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State further disclosed that in politics, people are bound to make “unfounded allegations” in a bid to gain the upper hand. According to him, “This is me. I’m 53 years old. I’m sure I’m older than all of you (programme anchors).
“I missed my exercise this morning just because I needed to come here. But you know, in all of the things you’ve talked about, people get overly excited. For whatever it is, emotions will rise.
“People will say things that they haven’t corroborated very well. People will say things that they haven’t checked. It’s not him (Ambode) that would have gone there to check; someone must have hurriedly said that and just in the bid to catch up, you hold on to anything," Sanwoolu said.
According to the APC candidate, since his first exit from government office, he has been giving back to the society through his non-governmental organisation. He however noted that the only time we went to the Gbagada hospital was when his foundation went to donate to the needy.
He said, "I give to all other hospitals, including that hospital. I have never ever been there before. And by the way, my wife is even a medical doctor.
“In fact, we’re doing something today at Eko Hotel for 5,000 or 6,000 kids. I go round and give to the poor.
“I’ve been training people and doing a lot in my senatorial district. So, I give back to the poor. It’s ensuring that when we have the opportunity, a lot of people need our help and we can do it.
“I go to various hospitals, various orphanages and I just give and give," he said.
Sanwo-Olu further added that his emergence as APC candidate was as a result of the party’s desire to avert the likelihood of vote-buying among delegates.
He said, “APC took a decision way before the primary started and said it was going to use what they call direct primary.
“Direct primary means that every card carrying member of the APC is going to have a say in who emerges in all of the spheres of positions — be it presidential, governorship, House of Representatives or House of Assembly.
“It’s not the delegates system and we’ve seen the negatives of the delegates system.
“With the delegates system, you have 3,000 people locked up in a room and they choose the person who is going to be the governor. And they said — as discussed (earlier in the programme) — that is vote buying.
“With 3,000 people, you know who they are. You can physically go to each one of them and say to each one of them, get me on board. And they said, no, it’s going to be direct primaries, meaning that if you have a one or two million card carrying members, you let all of them participate,” Sanwoolu disclosed.
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