The Honourable Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) has lied again and I think it's time to address his repeated blunder.

With regards to my taxes, there is no truth in this latest piece of misinformation that the Honourable Governor has been peddling. Following the repudiation of his initial allegations about JAYKAY PHARMACEUTICALS unpaid taxes, he has lied again, giving the impression that my company has gone to pay money supposedly owed to the government.

JAYKAY PHARMACEUTICALS has not paid a kobo since the day the Honourable Governor launched his initial attack. We stick to the facts contained in its initial publication, which encapsulated the company's reaction to the Governor’s initial falsehood. To now insinuate that I have gone behind the curtains to pay N500,000 is clearly political silly season, for lack of a better phrase, and quite frankly, beneath your person.

It's understandable that we've both had our differences in course of this election season, but when the Honorable Governor goes about launching unbridled, flat-out-false attacks at me about something as important as taxes, you leave me no choice but to call you out, Sir.

When I got into this race, I decided to make it about the issues. My opponents, not so much. They talked about me being inexperienced and at some point they saidI was too old to govern and we responded with BOLD IDEAS intended to put Lagos on a new trajectory - one that is NOT based on the Jagaban's tax-and-spend economics but on a framework that would radically push us to new economic frontiers for some of the most under-developed regions of the state like Epe and Ikorodu. They ridiculed our ideas around government-enabled free wifi hotspots across the city - an idea targeted at widening the reach of a world of knowledge that the Internet offers to our young and aspiring populace - especially in areas of low penetration. They called it bold ignorance and out of touch with reality but quickly went on to implement wifi Internet-enabled buses a couple of weeks after. As much as we're glad that our BOLD IDEAS inspire you as much as they do us, one must begin to question the seriousness of the opposition in Lagos to make this election about the issues.

How ever you cut or dissect our success as a state over the last 16-years, the fact is that Lagos in the Economic intelligence Unit (EIU) is still ranked 137th out of 140 cities listed in the liveability index. This means that if you take 140 cities worldwide where people consider good to live in, Lagos is the fourth worst place to live in. Apart from this, a World Bank survey shows that of the 36 states in Nigeria, Lagos is still the worst state in terms of the ease of securing Building Permits. It is still on record too that the party the Honourable Governor represents has delivered less than 5,000 housing units till date. It is still on record that more students in Lagos fail WAEC than those who pass. Even when we consider corruption, we are aware that Honourable Governor Fashola is yet to challenge anyone for corruption at the state level. Or is he saying Lagos is 100 percent corruption-free? Yet he goes about castigating the Federal Government. He should walk his talk and lead by example – expose and prosecute high-ranking corrupt officials in his government and the state civil service. The corruption in the Lekki Toll Plaza will be made public in due cause.

Clearly, we still have a lot of work to do as a State but the Honourable Governor Babatunde Fashola has set out to exploit the commanding heights he occupies in the seat of government to bully us. And quite frankly, we shall stand up to bullies.

I think what Lagosians should begin to ask is what is driving the Honourable Governor Fashola’s violent outbursts? What has he got to hide? Other than lay the facts bare to enable the public form an informed opinion.

I refuse to be baited into his self-declared verbal warfare. My politics and campaign will be issues-based and no roforofo badmouthing from anyone, no matter how highly placed, will steer me away from development-based politicking.

There are more pressing issues, more important conversations to have and more problems to solve. And the people of Lagos are wondering if their leaders get it. The teachers, the students, the blacksmiths, the bankers, the taxi-man, the small-business owners, they all hope that their leaders understand that the outcome of this election and the future of this state is bigger than any one personality or party. Whatever we do or commit to doing determines whether they have food to put on their tables; whether they can own homes, pay salaries or that their children can go to schools of their choice. They deserve better. The people definitely deserve better.

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I said it, JK is OK even better than our "SAN".. JK for Lagos... GEJ till 2019!!!

Punch line: Agbaje no can enta for Lagos State

Seun should do the needful

Let's see who wins.

Agbaje,go and sit down.They don't want you in town you are singing,who will back you up

This looks like an edited interview sort of. @OP please provide the source of your story.

temitemi1:
I said it, JK is OK even better than our "SAN".. JK for Lagos... GEJ till 2019!!!

Jk we know.....the other nigga aspiring is a puppet current governor a puppet as well

A o le fi iku we orun. (Death is incomparable with sleep)

JK is far better than Tinubus errand boys intellectually. I pray he wins so that all those hidden frauds by APC/Tinubu/Fashola will become public knowledge.

Agbaje is the man that can free lagosians from the fraudulent iron grip of jagaban & co.

We are tired of multiple taxation, Agberos, criminal tolls and selfish silence of the elites.

In JK we trust. Eko onibaje ju bayi lo o.

Bluetooth2:

This looks like an edited interview sort of. @OP please provide the source of your story.

following him on facebook so just got it from his page

Talk is cheap. JK should show us a copy of his receipt and paste it in the newspaper dailies like Fashola has challenged him to.

WisdomFlakes:
Talk is cheap. JK should show us a copy of his receipt and paste it in the newspaper dailies like Fashola has challenged him to.

he who asserts proves....let fashola show us evidence of his claim

Too much talk, go and clear your tax arreas before coming out to contest.
Oni gbese

PentiumPro:
Too much talk, go and clear your tax arreas before coming out to contest.
Oni gbese

you will call gej's supporters blind and tribalistic followers, abi?

JK is ok.
the man is sound.
tinubu and fashola will go to jail.

WisdomFlakes:
Talk is cheap. JK should show us a copy of his receipt and paste it in the newspaper dailies like Fashola has challenged him to.

^^^Not before Buhari shows us a copy of his certificate!

Am beginning to doubt fasholaz "SANship", d guy dis days behaves like a thug. His duty assigned to him by asiwaju of corruption is to follow d mental patient called ambode to rallies and be dancing shoki everywhere. Ganjaman cum wife beater(family trait) cum mad(mental case) me ruling lagos since 1999