₦airaland Forum

What is the problem with the APC people? They are not organised.

Q: What inspired you to enter the PDP governorship contest in Lagos State?
A: I am motivated, first of all, by the level of desperation that I see around me,
by the degree of deprivation that is obvious to most Lagosians and by the fact
that we have enough in terms of human resources, enough in terms of
financial resources to engender massive improvement in the way we live our
lives these days in Lagos State as well as the expectations of our people from
government, even while at the same time not making government to manage
every aspect of our people’s lives and to use the weapon of tax destruction to
overburden our people with what I would consider these days to be impunity of
taxes; tax on prosperity, tax on wealth, tax on success, which is discouraging
of investment.

If you are successful you can expect the Lagos State government, currently
under the APC, to come after you with its plethora of taxes whose next effect
is to discourage investment in the state; to discourage enterprise among the
people of Lagos State.

And there is no better example of this than the sustained attacks on the last
link in the distribution chain: the retailers, the street traders, the roadside
hawkers by the government’s agencies like KAI and the multitude of uniforms.
I am motivated to throw my hat in the ring because I believe that I have the
ability to resolve a lot of the issues that are setting the people against one
another.