Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said that he does not wish to be addressed with a title.
According to Mr Sanwo-Olu, executive officers should only be addressed as ‘Your Excellency’ when they have been judged to have performed well.
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The governor told a congregation at the King’s Court Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Lagos, on Sunday that he was working on an executive order to ensure that a person will only be addressed as such after performing well in office.
“I don’t want title in front of my name. I am actually going to come up with an executive order. This ‘excellency’ thing, I think it is when you have finished and if you earn it, then you should be called ‘excellency’.
“If you haven’t earned it; if you haven’t delivered, there is nothing excellent in the excellency. You are just Mr Governor for crying out loud and it is only when you have finished the kingdom assignment, when you have finished God’s work in the chosen place that you have been called to do that people can say in truth that you are a good representation and you deserve to be called ‘excellency’,” he said.
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Sanwo-Olu assured that bad roads across the state would be repaired as soon as the rains subside.
The congregation Sanwo-Olu addressed is headed by Ben Akabueze, who is also the Director-General of the Budget Office and former commissioner to ex-governors of Lagos, Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola.
