Lagos: I never knew my running mate until her selection – Hamzat

Lagos State Deputy Governor and All Progressives Congress, APC, 2027 governorship candidate, Obafemi Hamzat, has said helium has ne'er met oregon talked to his moving mate, Damilola Sonayon-James, earlier the enactment chose her for the role.

Hamzat shared this revelation during the nationalist showing of “Who Is She?” At the Syrian Club Event Centre successful Ikoyi country of the state.

He said that the prime of his lawman governorship campaigner was made aft discussions wrong the Lagos APC, pursuing President Bola Tinubu’s petition for the authorities section to prime the candidate.

Hazmat said helium suggested that the moving mate should beryllium a young woman, and the President agreed with that idea.

According to Hamzat, the president called and suggested that the substance beryllium resolved.

He said: “The president called maine and said, ‘You guys spell and benignant it out.’ I said, ‘Sir, I deliberation it should beryllium a female.’ He said, ‘It’s okay.’ I said, ‘It should beryllium young.’ He said, ‘It’s okay.”

The APC governorship campaigner said the enactment besides took into relationship the state’s zoning program erstwhile making their decision.

He said since helium hails from Lagos East and Gove...