The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, has challenged the All Progressives Congress-led government in the state to domesticate the Freedom of Information Act which was signed into law by President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.

Agbaje said this in a Facebook post on Thursday.

The PDP candidate argued that the finances and the running of the affairs of the state were deliberately made opaque so that a godfather would continue to have his way.

He, therefore, stated that there was a need to free Lagos from the shackles of slavery.

Agbaje said, “The ruling party has accused us of negative campaigning because we have dared to challenge their record especially as it pertains to the transparency and openness of government.

“Lagos’ failure to domesticate the Freedom of Information Act has kept the people in the dark for way too long on how this states’ affairs are conducted but today we are ‘woke’.

“Lagosians want a government that would prioritize their needs over the dictates of one man in every single circumstance – housing, healthcare, jobs, opportunities for the youth etc. I know this because I hear it everywhere I go.

“People are tired of the secrecy. They are tired of the tyranny. And to belittle this is to underestimate the resolve of Lagosians to bring about a new order in Lagos in this election. To them, as it stands today, Lagos is not free.”

The PDP candidate wondered how the APC in Lagos could promise a better life for the people when trucks and trailers had been parked on the side of major roads thereby causing untold hardship for motorists.

He said the APC, through high and superfluous taxes like toll fees, had made the cost of transportation high and made life harder for the people.

Agbaje added, “Our vision to #setlagosfree is not a trend or a fad, it is real and it has started a groundswell of men and women across this state who are determined to live in a Lagos that is free from the control of overlords.

“It is real for people like Abdul, a young man that I met who works as a security guard for an office leasing company in Ikoyi. Abdul earns a little over N45,000 a month of which 60 per cent of that income goes into transporting himself to work every day. Get this: That number was actually around 44 per cent before the hike in the toll on the Lekki-Epe Expressway. For him, Lagos is not working.

“It is real for people like Bisola, a young mother of two, who lives on the Surulere-axis and has to contend with trucks that are parked recklessly on major roads and side streets – even on weekends – despite several complaints from her residential association. For her, Lagos is not listening.”
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DEY NO GO GREE NA

Lagos State have been bedshackled for long by parasitic nematodes whose life support is nothing but sodomistic corruption deals...

Shior

This is more or what we qant to see Jimi. Turn on the heat,anyone affaid of the heqt should leave the kitchen

Tinubu's hegemonic legacies must stop

JK is Just kidding. d Mumu, periodic politician don crawl frm under hin rock again. This time d defeat will be crushing. Wit Lagos bcoming Africa's 5th largest economy & thriving & attracting investments in a country that is a byword 4 poor governance, Lagosians will not giv room 4 d retrogressive politics of PDP. Agbaje will soon crawl back again. Na we customer for dis Lagos nah.

I hope Agbaje can make that one of his campaign promises.

kunleweb:
This is more or what we qant to see Jimi. Turn on the heat,anyone affaid of the heqt should leave the kitchen

Gbam!!

I dey tell you, the status quo needs to be changed

Sorry to derail this thread but I just changed my sig to ask, what is wrong with Nairaland? How can be debased to this level? Why ask christian to swear to be a muslim before he can defend his faith on a muslim thread, but do no such thing for muslims visiting a christian thread?

Yet they want human beings to support an illiterate, undemocratic self styled leader to rule over us with our educated minds... Someone who don't even knw the essence of being educated...

What Lagos is celebrating as development is just 0.1% of what it could have gotten if its management was transparent. Any government ran in secrecy or in the dark is definitely not for the benefit of the masses.

Jk should do grassroot campaign

My advice for him

Why Agbaje wan open Tinubu nyash nah...


Lagos na Tinubu workshop


Doubt me... Ask Alpha beta

webizone:
Sorry to derail this thread but I just changed my sig to ask, what is wrong with Nairaland? How can be debased to this level? Why ask christian to swear to be a muslim before he can defend his faith on a muslim thread, but do no such thing for muslims visiting a christian thread?

Leave them , na ocultic religion

guardsman:
JK is Just kidding. d Mumu, periodic politician don crawl frm under hin rock again. This time d defeat will be crushing. Wit Lagos bcoming Africa's 5th largest economy & thriving & attracting investments in a country that is a byword 4 poor governance, Lagosians will not giv room 4 d retrogressive politics of PDP. Agbaje will soon crawl back again. Na our customer in Lagos State nah.

I'm sure you have a better candidate? ...correct me if you are not just a pathetic jobless graduate whose means of livelihood is peddling unsubstantiated controversies with that tecno phone of urs...

webizone:
Sorry to derail this thread but I just changed my sig to ask, what is wrong with Nairaland? How can be debased to this level? Why ask christian to swear to be a muslim before he can defend his faith on a muslim thread, but do no such thing for muslims visiting a christian thread?

Muslims are First Class citizens...

Better put that in to your skull

Why ask for what you can't get...

guardsman:
JK is Just kidding. d Mumu, periodic politician don crawl frm under hin rock again. This time d defeat will be crushing. Wit Lagos bcoming Africa's 5th largest economy & thriving & attracting investments in a country that is a byword 4 poor governance, Lagosians will not giv room 4 d retrogressive politics of PDP. Agbaje will soon crawl back again. Na we customer for dis Lagos nah.

You are right my Yoruba Muslim friend

Why would we have freedom of information in Lagos..

It will certainly not benefit Tinubu

Jimi, unfortunately your yoruba brothers and slavery are like 5n6. So they may not listen to you. Slaves to hausa-fulani at de national level just to be brought close to power and slaves to tinubu at their region.Lagos is more of tinubu's personal property and Lagosians love to have it so. Who bewitched the Lagosians in this manner?

ZombieTAMER:


Muslims are First Class citizens...

Better put that in to your skull

The only way to know a first class citizen is class.

guardsman:
JK is Just kidding. d Mumu, periodic politician don crawl frm under hin rock again. This time d defeat will be crushing. Wit Lagos bcoming Africa's 5th largest economy & thriving & attracting investments in a country that is a byword 4 poor governance, Lagosians will not giv room 4 d retrogressive politics of PDP. Agbaje will soon crawl back again. Na we customer for dis Lagos nah.

5th largest economy And Lagosian are suffering lol

Do you know lagos is the poverty HQ of this country

Bros free yourself from mental slavery na 2018 we dey oo

Something you should have beendoing since 2015 when you lost.

How come Jimi just found his voice?

Now that is visible invisible monument of corruption headed by tinubu...

webizone:

The only way to know a first class citizen is class.

Which other class are you looking for... When you can't do anything about it

Jimi will stand a better chance in 2023 if he continues like this

deleo16:

If all the headquarters relocate back to Abuja and Niger delta... You wouldn't see any teeth to open

They would rather die than agree to such scrutiny by the public.

guardsman:
JK is Just kidding. d Mumu, periodic politician don crawl frm under hin rock again. This time d defeat will be crushing. Wit Lagos bcoming Africa's 5th largest economy & thriving & attracting investments in a country that is a byword 4 poor governance, Lagosians will not giv room 4 d retrogressive politics of PDP. Agbaje will soon crawl back again. Na we customer for dis Lagos nah.

How much tinubu dey give you wey you dey mumu yourself.Out of #1b wey he dey milk from Lagos na #20k he give bribe you to be his online watchdog.

Blackfire:
Now that is visible invisible monument of corruption headed by tinubu...

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