Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola says Lagos State
is too big to be handed over to the Peoples Democratic Party’s, PDP,
governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje to experiment with as he lacks
experience.
Fashola, who spoke on Tuesday at a Town Hall Meeting with
artisans and tradesmen, said the All Progressive Congress, APC,
candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, should be trusted to govern and lead Lagos
State in the right direction as he has the needed experience to do so,
having beein in government for 27 years.
Though the governor did not mention Agbaje’s name, he
was referring to him when he advised Lagosians not to trade experience
in government business for experiment and trial and error that the
opposition (PDP) wanted to bank on.
According to him, Ambode is better suited for the state’s
number one job because of his competence saying he worked with him for
over six years as Accountant General of the State and would start from
where he handed over the baton to him.
He said he could thump his chest and vouch for the
governorship candidate of the APC in Lagos State as one who would be a
worthy successor to him.
Backing his contention with several anecdotes, the
governor urged residents of Lagos not to make the mistake of electing
someone without cognate experience who would only end up wobbling and
fumbling with the fortunes of Lagos.
Fashola stated that he was ready to defend his stewardship
in office at any time and at any forum if called upon to do so because
his government had been very impactful to the lives of the average
residents of the state.
He thanked the artisans, tradesmen and farmers for their
honesty and truthfulness about the positive change that has come into
their lives through the activities of the State Government in the
informal sector.
The governor said he wholeheartedly supports their request
for a continuation of the prosperity that is being enjoyed in the
informal and agricultural sector under the present administration,
adding that the only way such continuity could be actualized is by
voting to ensure that the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerges
victorious at all levels in Lagos State and the federal elevel in 2015.
He stressed that this is the time and period for Nigerians
to make very important decisions about their lives as the elections
approach and that the people should be bold to take up their leaders on
what they have done with the time they have spent in office before
asking for renewal of tenures.
The governor added that when President Goodluck Jonathan
was seeking the votes of Nigerians before his first term in office, one
of his sloganeering catch phrases was that as a child he had no shoes
and walked barefooted but that now the campaigns would be about issues
as the era of having no shoes to curry sympathy was gone.
Fashola said the President also made several promises such
as the one he made in Lagos during the campaigns in 2011, where he
promised to reconstruct the road leading to the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, adding that four years after, nothing had
happened in Lagos.
Speaking at the event, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, running mate
to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC presidential candidate, called on
Nigerians not to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan, as doing so will
only attract hunger.
He said Nigeria under Jonathan had already entrenched deep
poverty and that retaining him for a second term would mean more
hunger, and that the time had come for power to change hand at the
centre.
Also speaking, the APC Lagos governorship candidate,
Akinwunmi Ambode said APC from the period of Bola Tinubu to Governor
Babatunde Fashola has continuously provided good governance to the
people of the state, saying if voted into power, his government would
not deviate from the principle.
He appealed to Lagos residents to vote massively for him
during the governorship election and for General Buhari at the
presidential election next year.
“Our promise to you as a party is to provide good
governance and able leadership. We want to take good care of your
businesses. If you have been making N1000 profit before, what we want
for you is, after providing all the facilities you need for your
business, that your profit swells to N10, 000.
“We know that when you make more profit, you will have
more to take care of yourself, your children and your home. We promise
not to stress you with our policies. I also want to remind you that no
matter what we do, if we do not take over the central government, we may
be hindered in a way and may not be able to provide all that we want to
provide for you,” he said.
According to Ambode, “there must be change of government
at the Federal level. APC must take over in Abuja. In Lagos, we remember
where the former Governor Bola Tinubu started from and how Governor
Fashola consolidated on his achievements and raised the bar, that is
what we want to continue in Lagos.”
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