Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of
Lagos state, says President Bola Tinubu demonstrated to the 78th session of the
United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) that Africa has opportunities and should
be listened to.
On Wednesday, Tinubu addressed
world leaders at the UNGA and spoke about his plans for Nigeria and the West
African region, including working to restore democracy to the Niger Republic.
Speaking with journalists on
Wednesday, Sanwo-Olu said Tinubu was able "to analyse the issues
concerning Africa, West Africa and Nigeria as a whole".
He said that the president demonstrated that Nigerians have chosen well, noting that Tinubu was putting Africa on the world map with his speech.
"He demonstrated that
Nigerians have actually chosen well, to be present at this point in time,"
Sanwo-Olu said.
"He was not only defining
what the role Nigeria will play will continue to play, but was also putting
Africa on the world map in expressing that even with global challenges the
entire world needs to be able to listen and watch the opportunities that abound
in Africa.
"You know, Africa has been
the whipping boy but Africa has not been unfairly treated, Africa has been the
one that we believe, is the untapped future resource of the entire world.
"And he was able to put that
forward to say that the world needs to listen and watch the potential that
Africa presents.
"And he was also now able to
take it further, you know, to all of the issues have been in West Africa, you
know with coups and counter coups and the rest of it, that is not fashionable,
it is so undemocratic but he was not trying to run himself over any of these
countries.
"It was more of
collaborative, that indeed, they need to be able to speak to them, and be able
to reverse that very unfortunate trajectory that we're seeing coming out in
Africa, where coups are becoming the order of the day."
The governor said Tinubu put the
country on its path to take its place in the UN with his speech.
"We are on the path of
ensuring that the renaissance of Africa is not lost almost and that the world
to watch and the world should be able to carry Africa along and let us indeed
give Africa its fair share, its fair place in global politics and in the
economic agenda of the world," he said.
Sanwo-Olu said Tinubu's outing at
the UN meeting was "credible".
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