Lagos Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor, pledged on Sunday to make homeownership more accessible through a mortgage scheme with a 10% down payment and a 25-year repayment period, TVC News reported. He also outlined plans for an integrated transport system. His manifesto separately proposes linking rail, bus and ferry services under one transport card.
Mr Hamzat spoke at a governorship debate on Sunday, 8 November 2026, which TVC said was organised with Channels Television and the Punch, Vanguard and TheCable newspapers. Four candidates were billed to take part. INEC’s election calendar lists governorship and state assembly elections in participating states for 6 February 2027. This report covers only Mr Hamzat’s pledges.
He said Lagos had delivered 18,000 housing units over the past eight years and that the priority was to complete estates still under construction, including Ibeju and Ajara in Badagry. That figure is his claim, and NewsVelocityNG has not verified it.
The manifesto behind the pledges
The pledges track The Lagos Promise (Ileri Eko), the 100-pledge manifesto he unveiled on 30 October at the Wole Soyinka Centre in Iganmu. The published manifesto contains a homeownership pathway with a 10% down payment and single-digit interest. It proposes integrating rail, bus and ferry services under one transport card, and it commits to expanding and reforming the bus and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network.
The specific target of raising the public bus fleet from about 1,000 to 4,000 comes from reports of his launch speech, ThisDay reported, not from the manifesto’s written commitment.
The campaign said at the unveiling that 87 of the 100 pledges are firm commitments within the state government’s powers and 13 are aspirations needing cooperation from the Federal Government or other bodies, according to ThisDay. Reviews of the published document by Lagos Metropolitan and Proshare identify 86 commitments and 14 aspirations. The difference reflects the distinction between the figures announced by the campaign at the unveiling and the classifications in the published manifesto. The published manifesto classifies the mortgage pathway, bus-network expansion and the one-ticket integration of rail, bus and ferry services as commitments.
Where reports differ
TVC’s debate report gives the bus fleet as 34,000 in its text, and the same story appears under a headline reading 4,000. NewsVelocityNG has not used the 34,000 figure, because no debate recording or reliable transcript has been reviewed.
The 25-year repayment period is attributed solely to his debate remarks as reported by TVC. At an October town hall he reportedly spoke of up to 20 years, according to Parrot Nigeria. The reports reviewed do not explain how the proposed mortgage scheme would be financed.
