Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has stated that he never saw himself as a politician until 2018 despite holding public office for over a decade.
The governor who was elected into office this year disclosed this whole speaking at the 3rd Alumni Lecture of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Faculty of Engineering Alumni Association.
He said;
“I saw myself purely as a professional – a technocrat- in politics and public service.
“The opportunity to run as governor was a bigger responsibility than anything I had ever done, and, and unlike everything before, not a role to which I could be simply appointed. I can say that it was at that point that I became a politician”.
Governor Sanwo-Olu succeeded Akinwunmi Ambode as governor of Lagos State in 2019.