On Sunday, the All Progressives Congress (APC) organised a Christmas Carol, claiming the emergence of former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, as Nigeria’s president in the February 25 presidential election was designed by God.

The Carol of Five Lessons, which pulled a huge crowd of APC members and followers, was held at the party’s Secretariat on Acme Road in Ikeja.

“I want to commend Mr Chairman, Pastor Cornelius Ojelabi and your team for this great event that you have put together. We cannot forget soon; this legacy that you are setting for yourself is going to outlive you even after your administration,” Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said.

He added, “We cannot forget that under your watch and your able administration, you have produced the first president of Nigeria from Lagos State.”

The governor said the party had every reason to be thankful to God for all He had done and helped the party to achieve, especially the electoral victory in 2023 at both state and federal levels.

He said that the theme of the Carol was an acknowledgement of the past victory God had given to the party.

“It would not have been by human power or wisdom by us but only by the grace of God. The journey of the APC has been one marked by resilience, dedication and unwavering commitment to ideas that bring us together. Let us remember the value that defines us,” Mr Sanwo-Olu explained.

The Lagos governor urged the party members to always remember Mr Tinubu in their prayers for God’s grace and inspiration to set the country on a sustainable path of economic progress and development.

Mr Ojelabi, the Lagos APC chairman, said the party deemed it to come before the Lord to thank Him for the grace of being alive as 2023 winds down and the victory granted APC in the year.

“We owe it a duty to give the Lord praise and adoration for giving us this expensive gift of life free of charge. We in the APC, particularly those of us in the Lagos chapter, appreciate the goodness and mercy of the Lord in our lives.

“We see the great things He keeps doing for us, especially in the outgoing year, and do not take any of them for granted. We do not see the victory that the Lord gave us in the last elections as a product of our efforts,” said the APC chair in Lagos. “We do not see the grace the Lord granted us to be the party that will restore the lost glory of our country as our making and neither do we believe that we have any magic wand to have been the preferred party of Lagos residents since 1999.”

“It is only God,” Mr Ojelabi declared.

He assured the party members that they would not labour in vain.

(NAN)