The governorship candidate of the Alliance for Democracy (AD) in 2019 election in Lagos State, Chief Owolabi Salis, has commended the Nigerian First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, for her recent Smart Garden Initiative.

The Ikorodu-born, United States based Lawyer described the move as a right step latent with the promising prospect to transform the agricultural sector from its present rudimentary bare subsistence to immensely transformative proportion for national self-sufficiency, if properly handled with sustained and intensified consistency.

Salis said the initiative came very close to the content of his manifesto on Agric.

He said the plans he harped upon during his three-time campaigns for governorship spanning 2007 to 2019, variously on the platforms of Peoples Democratic Party and Alliance For Democracy.

The lawyer also stated, “In those periods, my team and I, had worked out an operational methodology to ensure that every available arable land in Lagos State were converted to agricultural usage as part of a comprehensive blue-print drawn towards the crucial goal of agricultural self-sufficiency, in accordance with the advice which I had vociferously called on successive governments before then, and even up till now, to heed in other to save the people especially the poor, from the throes of starvation” he stated further.”

He also gave kudos to Chief Afe Babalola the Founder and Proprietor of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti who at an event said that he often sources his food needs including meats from his own farm and would never purchase food from outside.

“Indeed this epic revelation by Chief Babalola is an exemplary action that commends itself for emulation by us all, because this is a man, who has all the financial resources in this world to afford whatever he desires, yet he jettisoned that option and instead decided to show us a worthy example in self-sufficiency.’’