Tuesday 20 January 2015

Agbaje And His Clueless Manifesto Can't Lead Lagos - Fashola

Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, Lagos State Governor, says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, is not qualified to rule a polished state like Lagos.
Punch reports that, he urged the people of Lagos to vote for the All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who he described as an achiever.

The governor disclosed this  at an APC rally in the Kosofe Local Government Area of the state on Monday, January 19.

The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, took 15 minutes to analyze Agbaje’s manifesto titled, ‘Bold Ideas’ said Agbaje’s manifesto was filled with lies.


He said it was unfortunate that Agbaje could criticize the state government for having the largest debt profile among other states when the Federal Government still owed Lagos over N50bn.

He further said, “We are trying to get out of the mess at the federal level and their apprentice governor wants to put us in more mess. The PDP-led Federal Government cannot even look after the police. I am the one funding their police. The Alausa Immigration Passport office was built furnished and equipped by the state government.
“Today all the federal roads have been abandoned and we are the ones repairing them. Today they owe us N51bn. They have not paid. So we do their job and this same apprentice wants you to vote for him.

“I have been on this job for eight years as governor and four and a half years as the chief of staff, that is the experience I have. Ambode was in government before me at the local government level and worked with me for six years. He knows what to do.

“Their candidate calls his plans bold ideas but I call them bold inexperience. He says he wants to give you Internet hotspot. Tell him to beg his boss in Abuja to give us electricity. You can’t have internet without electricity. He has no bold ideas but bold ignorance and bold inexperience.”
The governor lashed Agbaje for saying that 70 per cent of Lagos was a slum, stating that his government had transformed several slums in the state.

“He says we have not been developing slums. What was Oshodi? What does it look like now? Obalende now has 24-hour streetlight and a bus terminus. Who cleaned it up?” he said.

Fashola said Agbaje’s promise to boost the ocean economy showed that the PDP candidate did not know about the developments in the state.

He said, “He promised high-speed ferry but he doesn’t understand ferry service. There is no such thing as a high-speed ferry. What you have are called water taxis and they run between 22-25 nautical miles and which is 55 km per hour and that is not high speed so he does not know what he is talking about.

“Ferries run about 39/40 nautical miles and that is 70 km per hour and that is not high speed. What he didn’t tell you is that today, we are running over 20 ferry routes in Lagos such as Ijegun, Ikorodu, Ebute Ero, Egba, Badore, Epe and so on. Tell him to enter the ferry so that he will learn. Today we have 131 licensed ferry operators.”

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