{"id":198624,"date":"2026-04-08T19:22:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/im-lagosian-like-tinubu-akpabio"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:45:49","slug":"im-lagosian-like-tinubu-akpabio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/im-lagosian-like-tinubu-akpabio","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Lagosian like Tinubu \u2013 Akpabio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday declared that he is a Lagosian like President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio made the disclosure during the inauguration of Ojota-Opebi link bridge, E-GIS, and Alausa complex in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Representing Tinubu at the event, Akpabio recalled how he spent his early years in Lagos as a young Corps member.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cYou wonder why the Senate President came to represent the president in Lagos. It\u2019s because the Senate President himself is a Lagosian. I lived right behind Bourdillion and I have been there for 30 years, I worked at Ajose as one of the directors of the telecom companies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI practiced law in Lagos from the day I became a young lawyer from the days of my youth Corps, I was on Lion building. I know Opebi, I knew Allen and I\u2019m in a position to testify to the transformation of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the President called me and why is he the President? He is not the President of the military but a civilian President of the democracy he fought for all his life. And who represents that democracy, it\u2019s the Chairman of the National Assembly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday declared that he is a Lagosian like President Bola Tinubu. Akpabio made the disclosure during the inauguration of Ojota-Opebi link bridge, E-GIS, and Alausa complex in Lagos. Representing Tinubu at the event, Akpabio recalled how he spent his early years in Lagos as a young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":198623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-198624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019m Lagosian like Tinubu \u2013 Akpabio - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday declared that he is a Lagosian like President Bola Tinubu. 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