{"id":17120,"date":"2026-11-13T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/2027-lagos-needs-more-than-promises-doherty-tickles-hamzat\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T16:45:47","slug":"2027-lagos-needs-more-than-promises-doherty-tickles-hamzat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/2027-lagos-needs-more-than-promises-doherty-tickles-hamzat\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Lagos needs more than promises, Doherty tickles Hamzat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Funso Doherty, has challenged his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Obafemi Hamzat, to offer more than promises ahead of the 2027 governorship election.\n<\/p>\n<p>Doherty stated this while contrasting his manifesto, titled \u1ecc\u0300n\u00e0 Tuntun, meaning \u2018The New Way\u2019, with Hamzat\u2019s manifesto, \u00ccl\u00e9r\u00ed, which translates to \u2018Promise\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>He spoke on Friday at the BusinessDay Policy Intervention Series Town Hall with the Organised Private Sector, where candidates presented their positions on the development of Lagos State.\n<\/p>\n<p>Doherty urged Lagos residents, business owners and private individuals to assess the outcome of successive administrations in the state and decide whether they wanted a different approach to governance.<\/p>\n<p>He said voters dissatisfied with the current situation should consider the alternatives available and determine which candidate they trusted to lead the state in a new direction. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe first question you ask yourself is: Are you satisfied with the situation today as a business owner, as a business leader, as a private individual? Are you happy with what the outcome is of 27 years of governance? Honestly ask yourself because it\u2019s you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that those unhappy with the outcome should consider which of the candidates offering alternatives they were comfortable handing leadership over to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the answer to that is no, then the next question you must ask yourself is, of the people that offer an alternative, who do you feel most comfortable handing that baton over to, to move you in the next direction?\u201d he asked.\n<\/p>\n<p>Doherty then drew attention to the titles of the two candidates\u2019 manifestos, using their meanings to question whether Lagosians wanted another promise or a different approach.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy manifesto is called \u1ecc\u0300n\u00e0 Tuntun. The Deputy Governor\u2019s is called \u00ccl\u00e9r\u00ed, which is \u2018promise\u2019. My own is called \u2018The New Way\u2019. Do you want promises, or do you want The New Way?\u201d he said.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State governorship candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, Funso Doherty, has challenged his All Progressives Congress counterpart, Obafemi Hamzat, to offer more than promises ahead of the 2027&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}