How Sanwo-Olu entered Tinubu’s inner circle — Ex-aide, Dapo Thomas
By Efe Onodjae Former Special Assistant to then-Lagos State Governor Bola Tinubu, Professor Dapo Thomas, has revealed how the 2002 Ikeja Cantonment bomb blast and the solidarity s that followed paved the way for the political relationship between Tinubu, former Deputy Governor Femi Pedro and eventual Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Less than a year later, while Thomas was attending an international Ford Foundation workshop in South Africa, he received news that Pedro had been appointed Deputy Governor of Lagos State.
Reflecting on Pedro’s rise, Thomas wrote that it illustrated “how small the world truly was,” noting that someone who had once sought his help to secure a meeting with the governor had, within a year, become Tinubu’s deputy—with Babajide Sanwo-Olu serving as his Special Adviser.
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