{"id":60359,"date":"2025-02-02T17:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60359"},"modified":"2025-02-02T17:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:31:13","slug":"2027-igbo-youth-group-endorses-seyi-tinubu-for-lagos-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/02\/2027-igbo-youth-group-endorses-seyi-tinubu-for-lagos-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Igbo Youth Group Endorses Seyi Tinubu for Lagos Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lagos State Igbo Youth Organizations LASIYO has endorsed Seyi Tinubu as its preferred candidate for the 2027 Lagos governorship election.<\/p>\n<p>LASIYO a coalition of socio cultural groups including the Igbo Youth Assembly Lagos State Umu Igbo Youth Cultural Association Lagos and Igbo Youth Initiative Lagos announced the endorsement during a meeting in Victoria Island Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Led by President General Obioma Andrew Vice President Bellarmine Chiemezie and Secretary General Chukwuemeka Francis the group cited Tinubu\u2019s leadership vision and commitment to Lagos residents as key reasons for their support.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement LASIYO highlighted Tinubu\u2019s contributions to youth empowerment infrastructure and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis initiatives in education and skills development have empowered over 1,000 youths while his infrastructure plans aim to enhance the state\u2019s transportation network and boost economic growth by 20 percent\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>The group also commended his leadership style emphasizing inclusivity transparency and accountability. \u201cWe believe Seyi Tinubu possesses the expertise and vision to address Lagos\u2019 challenges and drive sustainable progress for its residents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 The Lagos State Igbo Youth Organizations LASIYO has endorsed Seyi Tinubu as its preferred candidate for the 2027 Lagos governorship election. LASIYO a coalition of socio cultural groups including the Igbo Youth Assembly Lagos State Umu Igbo Youth Cultural Association Lagos and Igbo Youth Initiative Lagos announced the endorsement during a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60361,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60359\/revisions\/60361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}