By Moshood Adebayo
President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow begin a 2-day working visit to Lagos, his first official visit to the state since he assumed office about a year ago.
The visit will be the first time in about 15years that a sitting President will be visiting the state on a working visit, and this is being attributed to the landmark achievements recorded in the first year of the state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.
During the visit, Buhari would formally commission the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) Rescue Unit at Cappa Oshodi built by the state government to ensure prompt and swift response to emergency situations in the state.
The President would also 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 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 donated by the
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode-led administration to security agencies to beef up security in the state.
Activities for the first day of the president’s visit would be rounded off with a state banquet in his honour at the Eko Hotels and Suites, Victoria Island.
On Tuesday, the president will 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 state commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Steve Ayorinde, who described the visit as an indication of a good working relationship between Lagos State and the Federal Government, quoted Ambode as being joyous
over the president’s 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 receiving the president, 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’s motorcade will pass during the visit.