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\u2022LAGOS APC GuberCandidate, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Babajide Sanwo Olu is\nthe Lagos APC Guber candidate who has been campaigning vigorously towards next\nyear’s election. He is a man with many visions and one who believes good works\nsay it all. He has taken the bull by the horn with his house to house campaign\nin the last few weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The man who has cut an\nedge for himself both in the private and the public sector is no small fry in\npolitics. Born 53 years ago in Lagos State, he is an astute politician, trained\nSurveyor and public sector expert in human resources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He is from a Christian\nfamily and the entrepreneur turned politician has a good family to go with. As\nhe has made a huge success of his career life so has he made of his marital\nlife. He is happily married to a beautiful, highly reserved, power house and\nquintessential woman of substance, Dr. Mrs Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu. If all\ngoes as planned by the party, Dr. Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu will become the first\nlady of Lagos State and her status will change automatically. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This career woman\nsurely fits into her husband\u2019s rising profile. Though she is very much on the\nquiet side and rarely steps out for events, she has always been a modest woman\nand mostly attends events that are work related. But in recent time she has\nstepped up the game, storming the social scene and attended over 6 events in\nthe last 2 months most especially with her husband. <\/p>\n\n\n\n She is not your run of\nthe-mill woman, she is highly respected within her social circle. Very\nintelligent, cerebral and not really in the public glare like her husband. Not\nmany know her except for few who are her friends, family or colleagues that\nknows her. Her husband has not spoken about his marriage in all of his\ninterviews but recently he spoke glowingly about his better half to an online\nplatform, how their paths crossed, how he toasted her and what attracted her to\nhim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was an exclusive\nrevelation. On how they met, he responded \u201cWe met in the university. Maybe you\ndo not know I was a DJ. I used to be a paid DJ, meaning that I have my cassette\nplayer and other things. You guys now use MP3, flash drive and all. In those\ndays, I used to carry all my cassettes and record box around. I met her at one\nof the Jambite parties that we used to have for new students. I had been in the\nuniversity before she came as a Jambite. One of the things that usually\nhappened then was that we always served ice cream in our parties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It was not the\nconventional parties of rice and plantain you have these days. The good thing\nabout the whole thing is the fact that apart from being the DJ, which means I\nwould give them good music, I was also the person to serve the ice cream and\nthat means I would only give the ice cream to whoever I wanted. So, it was in\nthe course of serving ice cream that I spotted her. I saw her and said to\nmyself, \u2018wow, this little one\u201d. She was very innocent and looked too little.\nToday, she is a Medical Doctor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a medical student\nthen, after the first year at Akoka, she moved to LUTH at Idi-Araba to continue\nher medical studies. So, we continued. No telephone then, so I had to do the\ntrips. It had to be measured trips of every two weeks. You need to say to\nyourself that I will be back in two weeks, you better be there. That was how\nour relationship grew. We dated for a long time, about 8 to 9 years before we\ngot married. Like they say, everything is now history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Our lives together have\nbeen a rollercoaster. We have had our ups-and-downs like other people, which I\nthink is part of life. Life is not a bed of roses. There have been times I have\nnot been the perfect guy. I am human. One of the things that I know is that she\nis the stronger one in terms of family orientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She is the one with the\nkids, and takes care of them, while I go hustling like every man does. I am\nlike your regular hustler. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When I was in banking I\nhad to hustle, and in government you had to stay pretty late. She has been very\nconsistent with the children, even with her work, combining everything\ntogether. What most people do not know is that she went to the university more\nthan me. She has so many degrees and professional qualifications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You know the nature of\nher job where they take Oath of Service to humanity, to always care for the\npeople. She had to do all the night calls, and was still able to combine them\nwell with her role as a mother and wife. On several occasions when she had to\ndo her night calls, I also played the night call duty at home with the children\ntoo. In all, it has been an interesting journey together. We have different\nparts to play and we are doing excellently well together. We have grown to\nbecome stronger and become better persons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We have become better\nhusband and wife. We have become better friends. We understand ourselves, even\nbetter as friends than as husband and wife. I am happy she turned out to be the\nperson I call my wife today”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He also spoke on being\na family man<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt is almost three\ndecades. Almost 30 years now. Well, to be very honest with you, my wife has\nbeen the stronger person with the children as I said earlier. She has been around the children more than I\nhave been. I have missed few tea parties with the kids. You know when your\nchildren are in primary and nursery schools, there were tea parties they had at\n7 o clock or 9 0 clock in the morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I really cannot see how\nI would attend some of them \u2013 the meet and greet parties for primary 3 or 2\npupils that parents have to attend. She was always there for the children, but\nonce in a while when I show-up, the children were always happy.The little time\nthat I get to spend with them were quality time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We go on a few planned\nvacation together within and outside Nigeria. We make sure the children are\nwith us during such vacations and we enjoy such moments together as a family.\nIn terms of being a perfect family man, I really don\u2019t know what a perfect\nfamily man means or who one is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have run my race and\nI think if you see my children, you can ask them how I have done as a father. I\ncannot sit here and begin to judge myself. My children have turned up very well\nwith God helping us. A lot of credit must go to the Almighty God for protecting\nthem and for helping them to become the great human beings they are all turning\nto. A lot of kudos to my wife and some kudos to me as well\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n Babajide Sanwo-Olu has\na robust public sector service experience spanned over eight years during which\nhe was honorable Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Commissioner for\nBudget and Planning and Commissioner for Establishment and Training. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He also has an enviable\nbackground in the private sector with almost ten years\u2019 experience in the\nbanking sector having contributed to the growth and development of Lead Bank\nPlc, UBA and First Monument Bank. He obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree from the\nUniversity of Lagos and also an MBA in surveying from same university. He\nattended the Kennedy School of Government, USA; the London business school as\nwell as the Lagos Business School (LBS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n He was appointed\nspecial adviser on Corporate Matters by the then Deputy Governor, Femi Pedro in\n2003 and was also appointed Commissioner for Commerce and Industry in 2007\nduring Bola Tinubu Era.He also served as Babatunde Fashola\u2019s Commissioner for\nEstablishments, Training and Pension between 2007 and 2015.He is an associate\nmember of the Chartered Institute of Personal Management (CIPM) and fellow of\nthe Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Babajide Sanwoolu has\nwon numerous awards which include the symbol of excellence award from the Civic\nEnlightenment Association of Nigeria, a gold mentor award from the National\nAssociation of Nigeria Nurses & Midwives (NANNM), a platinum award from the\nLagos State Public Service Club and the 2009 best in Human Capital Development\naward from the Industrial Training Fund (ITF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2013TAYO FAJORIN OYEDIJI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u2022LAGOS APC GuberCandidate, BABAJIDE SANWO-OLU Babajide Sanwo Olu is the Lagos APC Guber candidate who has been campaigning vigorously towards next year’s election. 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