The Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday expressed profound gratitude to residents of the state for what he called the massive support they had extended to his administration in the outgoing year, which he said had made the achievements recorded in key sectors possible.
Ambode assured that more projects would be implemented to make life comfortable for the people in 2018.
Speaking at a special Christmas Party put together by the state government and held simultaneously in all the 20 local government areas of the state, Gov Ambode said the Lagos Project was on course, and that his administration was gradually and steadily building a state that would work for all.
The governor said he was delighted to join in the celebration of Christmas in a special way in the state, being the first time it would be held simultaneously in all the LGAs, adding that the significance of the season was important “as it brought to the fore the need to remind each other of the virtues of love, kindness, tolerance, piety and humility which Jesus Christ personifies.”
Also speaking in Epe at one of the centres for the celebration, the wife of the governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, charged Lagosians to embrace love and tolerance for peaceful co-existence.
Mrs Ambode, who noted that the Governor’s Christmas Party was designed to bring yuletide festivities closer to the grassroots, identified love and tolerance as the strongest basis for harmonious living, among people of different ethnic and religious affiliations.
