Lagos governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa say the executive and legislative arms of the state government will be forging stronger collaboration to deliver more developmental projects and people-oriented programmes and policies in the days ahead.
The two officials spoke to journalists at the 15th Executive-Legislative parley held Wednesday at Ajah, Lagos, with the representatives of state in both chambers of the National Assembly in attendance. The parley is themed “harmonious relationship among various arms of government: a necessity for greater Lagos.”
The annual parley, according to Sanwo-Olu, is a platform for elected and appointed members of the state to appraisal their performance in relation to the mandate given to them by the people. He said the parley had been designed in a manner that allows the executive and legislature to consider areas requiring a more effective collaboration in quest to meet the aspirations and expectations of Lagosians.
Sanwo-Olu explained that although the constitutional roles and responsibilities of the two arms of government differ, they were nevertheless, designed to achieve same goals. These, he said, include good governance and delivery of maximum value of democracy to the electorate, adding that the officials would rise from the parley with greater resolve to better serve the people.
The speaker, Obasa, who commended the executive for the initiative, told journalists that members of the House of Assembly working in tandem with the representatives of the state in the National Assembly, have not given up on their push to secure a ‘special status’ for Lagos in view of the state’s strategic role in Nigeria.
Lagos, with an estimated population of 21 million people, believed to be the largest of Nigeria’s 36 states, is also the commercial hub of the country, a position that brings its infrastructure under severe pressure.
JOSHUA BASSEY
