Lagos Deputy Governor Unveils 100-Point Manifesto for 2027 Election

Dr Kadri Hamzat, the incumbent deputy governor of Lagos State, has unveiled a 100-point manifesto titled The Lagos Promise (Ileri Eko). He presented the document on Friday at the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts in Lagos. Hamzat is the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate seeking to succeed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

The manifesto is anchored on seven pillars covering transportation, healthcare, education, housing, security, job creation and government accountability. Hamzat said the plan sets out specific deliverables his administration would pursue if elected and inaugurated on May 29, 2027.

“Lagos is a water state. The lagoon must be our third highway.”

On transportation, Hamzat promised to grow the public bus fleet from 1,000 to 4,000 buses, enabling one million passengers to be carried daily. He also pledged to extend the Blue Line rail project to Okokomaiko and connect the Blue and Red lines through an interchange at the National Theatre Station.

His water transport plan includes dredging an additional 140 kilometres of waterways, optimising 15 ferry routes, refurbishing 25 terminals and jetties, and procuring 75 additional electric vessels under the Omi Eko project. He described the lagoon as the state’s third highway and proposed a unified ticketing and timetable system for road, rail and water transport.

On healthcare, Hamzat promised to increase Maternal and Child Centres from 10 to 15 and expand the Ilera Eko health insurance scheme from nearly two million beneficiaries to one in three Lagos residents. He said centres would be taken to communities that had waited longest for them.

The document was described by ThisDay as the first concrete and actionable manifesto publicly presented by a major gubernatorial contender in Nigeria ahead of the 2027 general elections.