Vi c e – P resident Yemi Osinbajo yesterday held a close-door meeting with the first Executive Governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, to seek his blessing for 2019 general elections. Osinbajo, the vice presidential of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was in Lagos for the continuation of his door-todoor campaign to Mushin and Surulere local governments, visited Jakande, a former Minister of Works and Housing, in his Ilupeju residence in Lagos. Lagos APC governorship candidate, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu and close members of Jakande’s family attended the closedoor meeting between Osinbajo and Jakande, which lasted for about 30 minutes. Speaking to New Telegraph newspaper on the close-door meeting, Jakande’s son, Seyi said the Vice President Osinbajo visited the former governor to seek his blessing and to inform him about the performance of APC administration.

“Vice President Osinbajo said he decided to pay visit to the elder statesman as part of his door-to-door campaign to Mushin Local Government Area. Vice President Osinbajo said he decided to visit him to seek for his blessing and to inform him about the performance of President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration,” he said.

The vice president after visit to Jakande also visited some houses and markets in Mushin and Surulere local governments. Despite heavy presence of security operatives, party faithful and supporters besieged Jakande’s resident in there thousands to welcome the vice president and expressed their support him and his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari. Accompanying the Vice President during the door-to-door campaign were chieftains of the party, including Sanwo- Olu, the Majority Leader of House Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila; Senator Ganiyu Solomon and Senior Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Babafemi Ojudu, among others.

Addressing a crowd at Shitta in Surulere, Osinbajo, who urged Nigerians to vote for APC candidates in the February 16 and March 2 elections, said the ruling party would take Nigeria to a greater height. “APC is taking Nigeria higher and higher. We are not stopping. Our country is going higher. Come February 16, vote for APC,” he said. Also speaking, Gbajabiamila urged all the party members to unite and work for the party’s success in the forthcoming elections. Sanwo-Olu said: “On February 16 and March 2, let us make sure we vote for APC because APC is going to take us to next level. We are going higher and higher. We should vote for Buhari, Gbajabiamila and Desmond Elliot.”