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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State on Wednesday expressed his readiness to participate in Saturday’s Primary Election where members of the All Progressives Congress across the state are expected to choose the party’s flagbearer for the 2019 governorship election through direct primaries.

Speaking at an interactive session with Public Affairs Officers in the employment of the State Government at LTV Combo Hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan, noted that the State is a breeding ground of innovative activities, which must be well propagated.

Welcoming the LCDAs Business Summit Committee, led by its Vice Chairman, Dr. Olatunde Olusunmade, to his office on Wednesday, the Commissioner said the initiative would provide an institutional forum for engagement and interaction between the private and public sector on matters of common interest such as security, job creation and business growth.

Warning that the continued expansion of the 24 million population within a territorial land mass of 923,773 square kilometres is leading to huge infrastructural deficit that federal allocations and internally generated revenue have not addressed, both urged State Governments to create productive economies to stem the drift to Lagos.