Posted on: 09:46 Sat, 21 May 2016



The Lagos State Government will
formally welcome President
Muhammadu Buhari on Monday,
May 23, 2016 on a two-day working
visit to the State.

It will be President Buhari’s first
official visit to the state since he
assumed office about a year ago.

A statement issued by the State
Commissioner for Information and
Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, stated
that this is the first time in about
15years that a sitting President will
be visiting the State on a working
visit and is a testimony to the
landmark achievements in the last
one year of Governor Akinwunmi
Ambode as well as the good
working relationship between
Lagos State and the Federal
Government.

Ayorinde added that President
Buhari during the visit, would
formally commission the Lagos
State Emergency Management
Agency (LASEMA) Rescue Unit in
Cappa Oshodi built by the State
Government to ensure prompt and
swift response to emergency
situations in the State.

He said the President would
thereafter commission the newly
constructed Ago Palace Way in
Okota, Isolo after which he will pay
homage to the Oba of Lagos, His
Royal Majesty, Oba Babatunde
Rilwanu Aremu Akiolu at the Iga
Iduganran, Lagos Island.

The Commissioner disclosed further
that the President would later in
the day be hosted to a reception
rally by the State Government at
the Tafawa Balewa Square, (TBS)
Lagos where he will also
commission and hand over security
equipment and vehicles contributed
by the Governor Akinwunmi
Ambode-led administration to
securities agencies to beef up
security in the state.

The release added that activities for
the first day of the President’s visit
would be rounded up with a State
Banquet in his honour at the Eko
Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island.

The President will on Tuesday
participate as the Special Guest of
Honour at a breakfast session with
Corporate Lagos to be hosted by
Governor Ambode at the Lagos
State House, Marina, after which he
will have a short session with the
public service at the State House,
Alausa-Ikeja.

The Commissioner quoted Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode as being
joyous over this landmark
presidential visit to the State that
contributed so much to his
emergence as the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He added that Lagosians are
looking forward with excitement to
receive the President in the State,
just as he urged residents to bear
with law enforcement agents and
traffic control authorities who will
effect road diversions in some of
the routes that the President
motorcade will pass through during
the visit.

SIGNED
STEVE AYORINDE
COMMISSIONER FOR INFORMATION
AND STRATEGY
LAGOS STATE
MAY 21, 2016