Agbaje no match for Lagos APC, says Fashola

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Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Jimi Agbaje, is no match for the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the state.
The governor said Agbaje’s performance in the 2007 election was a clear indication of the strength of his candidacy.
Addressing reporters at an end-of-year briefing at the Lagos House, Alausa, Fashola said: “Agbaje is not a threat to us. Let’s go and check the result of the 2011 election.
“He got three per cent of the votes cast. We have defeated the PDP in all elections since 1999. Our candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode, is going to defeat Agbaje with your support.
“This is not the place to experiment; one needs a lot of experience to achieve what we have done in Lagos.
“When you look at what their party has done with the country, for instance, there are missing funds, non-functioning rail, epileptic power supply and others, do you want that to happen in Lagos?”
On comments credited to Vice President Namadi Sambo that people were leaving Lagos because of high taxation, the governor described it as a mark of ignorance.
Fashola said he believes Sambo was misquoted or the utterance could be a reflection of the quality of people the country parades as its leaders.
“That statement is a very serious display of ignorance if it was true that the Vice President said so.
“How do you then justify the perception that people are leaving Lagos?
“ Is the Value Added Tax (VAT) being collected from Lagos reducing compared to other states?
“Is the air traffic into Lagos reducing? Or have you a significant reduction in traffic in Lagos? More hotels are being built in Lagos, companies are licensing and operating in Lagos.
“Displaced people from other parts of Nigeria are moving into Lagos. Has the workers’ demand in Lagos reduced? Has the demand for hospital services reduced?
“So it is a very grave statement to make. That is why I said may be he was misquoted because that is the Chairman of the Nigeria Economic Council.
“So if he misunderstands what is happening in the nation’s commercial and economic nerve centre it may be a very revealing index to his understanding of the economy.
“It may also confirm to you that some of the things you heard from the president that he receives all sorts of contradictory advice and may be this is part of it.
“It is a very dangerous statement to make. It is either ignorant or diabolical and either way it is not good because it tells you then why the economy is not functioning.
The governor who reeled out the achievements of his administration in different sectors said the APC had delivered dividends of democracy to lagosians.
On the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) distribution and the preparedness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the elections, Fashola said the real head of the commission should be a statistician and not a professor or an academician.
“It is not about theory, it is about practical. People who should also do this job should be those who have managed distribution activities in the country. It is not a judicial work but about logistics,” he said.

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Ok.... Lets test that at the polls

Sai Agbaje 2015

Who is afraid of Jimi? Its only in Lagos somebody will award bogus contract and still excute them using his own firm. Running the state like personal estate and warning civil servants not to speak to press, oh, oga fash desperate to pocket the state to further extend their dynasty. Harmburger can't safe una cos JK is ok,

It will shock you.........JIMI will have Lagos!!!!

Mr. Fashola na fear dey catch you and your political father, Lagos state is not a private business and is not owned by an individual.