₦airaland Forum

'I've always maintained that knocking Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) for his achievements all because I'm running for Governor on a different platform will just be playing mere politics - and that's not what I've set out to do in this campaign. However, I like to think that Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) and I have very different positions and ideologies when it comes to leadership and what we both think is critical to developing Lagos into a world class mega-city.

This leads me to an issue that needs to be addressed. An issue that has to do with our doctors and healthcare workers.

First and foremost, I find it heart wrenching that at our level of development in Lagos, we still have to grapple with the decision of paying the salaries of our doctors. You see, quite simply, we cannot expect to have grown our economy by almost a hundred fold in the last 16 years without improving the lives and working conditions of our healthcare workers. It's not just logical. What's the purpose of building schools, if our children cannot afford it? What's the purpose of building bridges, if it doesn't connect people to commercial activity? What's the purpose of leadership, if there are no followers? What's the purpose of such great prosperity, if it doesn't trickle down to the least of us? This is where I think we fundamentally differ. There's a semblance of being progressive on the surface but the position and decisions that the honorable Governor has made over his tenure leaves us to wonder if truly he and the leaders in the Lagos' ruling party, the APC, are true Progressives - in the footsteps of great Yoruba leaders like Awolowo and LK Jakande.

You see being progressive has nothing to do with your party. It's in your lifestyle, in your instinct, it's subconscious. I learnt this from my great mentor Pa Abraham Adesanya - A man that took me under his wings as a young politician and taught me all that I know about politics. He would say, "It's about the people, Jimi. At the end of the day, no other metric counts, no validation is greater than the one you see on the faces and in the lives of our people. If they are hungry and without jobs; if they're without a roof over their heads; if they're uneducated and lack the basic life skills to compete; then we've all failed even if we build the tallest of skyscrapers or the longest of bridges."

That's what I call being Progressive.

So don't lecture me on experience. If your so called experience doesn't have a human face to it, it's all for nothing.

Let me assure Lagosians that hope is on the way. And being a Pharmacist myself and understanding the importance of a healthy people to national development, I intend to do more in this area. I have said under my watch, we shall introduce a free-health insurance scheme that would be beneficial to Lagosians and service providers, amongst other things. It's bold - no doubt - but it's possible. As long as we have the the political will to see it through, it will happen.

Government must begin to work not for a few elites that gather on the main streets of Bourdillon but for ALL people. Whether you're a banker or a blacksmith, an electrician or an exporter, teachers, Okada riders, students and lecturers. We are all one people in pursuit of the basic needs in life: opportunity, liberty, dignity of work and the pursuit of happiness.

So in this election, let us make it clear to the opposition that when it comes to being Progressive:
It is not in the size of the cap, it's in the THOUGHTS.
It's not by the shape of the glasses, it's in the VISION.
And it's definitely not for them to decide whose feet the shoes fit. Our progressiveness is about the PATH that Lagosians themselves choose to travel and our ability as leaders to harness that.

God bless.'

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJimiAgbaje/posts/

Just in case

Lol

JK should call a spade a spade.
Do not makes me angry!
Fashola is a thief!
He should be stoned in Tinubu square.
with Amoda Tetanus Tinubu the gbomo gbomo killer

Nice piece from an intellect.
No insults. No name calling. Just setting the record straight from his own perspectives.

How i wish that the general political landscape of the country is dominated by men of great intellects like these; and not polluted by thugs, motor park touts and people with low leadership and/or intellectual standards

wow! this is a smack down! intelegent response!

Jimi is miles ahead of Ambode and his masters.

Ambode is our next governor.....
Someone should ask Agbaje what he has done for the development of Lagos or is it eloquence we will take as good governance ??.......

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alextayo:
'I've always maintained that knocking Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) for his achievements all because I'm running for Governor on a different platform will just be playing mere politics - and that's not what I've set out to do in this campaign. However, I like to think that Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) and I have very different positions and ideologies when it comes to leadership and what we both think is critical to developing Lagos into a world class mega-city.

This leads me to an issue that needs to be addressed. An issue that has to do with our doctors and healthcare workers.

First and foremost, I find it heart wrenching that at our level of development in Lagos, we still have to grapple with the decision of paying the salaries of our doctors. You see, quite simply, we cannot expect to have grown our economy by almost a hundred fold in the last 16 years without improving the lives and working conditions of our healthcare workers. It's not just logical. What's the purpose of building schools, if our children cannot afford it? What's the purpose of building bridges, if it doesn't connect people to commercial activity? What's the purpose of leadership, if there are no followers? What's the purpose of such great prosperity, if it doesn't trickle down to the least of us? This is where I think we fundamentally differ. There's a semblance of being progressive on the surface but the position and decisions that the honorable Governor has made over his tenure leaves us to wonder if truly he and the leaders in the Lagos' ruling party, the APC, are true Progressives - in the footsteps of great Yoruba leaders like Awolowo and LK Jakande.

You see being progressive has nothing to do with your party. It's in your lifestyle, in your instinct, it's subconscious. I learnt this from my great mentor Pa Abraham Adesanya - A man that took me under his wings as a young politician and taught me all that I know about politics. He would say, "It's about the people, Jimi. At the end of the day, no other metric counts, no validation is greater than the one you see on the faces and in the lives of our people. If they are hungry and without jobs; if they're without a roof over their heads; if they're uneducated and lack the basic life skills to compete; then we've all failed even if we build the tallest of skyscrapers or the longest of bridges."

That's what I call being Progressive.

So don't lecture me on experience. If your so called experience doesn't have a human face to it, it's all for nothing.

Let me assure Lagosians that hope is on the way. And being a Pharmacist myself and understanding the importance of a healthy people to national development, I intend to do more in this area. I have said under my watch, we shall introduce a free-health insurance scheme that would be beneficial to Lagosians and service providers, amongst other things. It's bold - no doubt - but it's possible. As long as we have the the political will to see it through, it will happen.

Government must begin to work not for a few elites that gather on the main streets of Bourdillon but for ALL people. Whether you're a banker or a blacksmith, an electrician or an exporter, teachers, Okada riders, students and lecturers. We are all one people in pursuit of the basic needs in life: opportunity, liberty, dignity of work and the pursuit of happiness.

So in this election, let us make it clear to the opposition that when it comes to being Progressive:
It is not in the size of the cap, it's in the THOUGHTS.
It's not by the shape of the glasses, it's in the VISION.
And it's definitely not for them to decide whose feet the shoes fit. Our progressiveness is about the PATH that Lagosians themselves choose to travel and our ability as leaders to harness that.

God bless.'

https://www.facebook.com/OfficialJimiAgbaje/posts/

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This guy is just Kidding...
Anyway how have you impacted upon the lives of lagosians Has a supposed technocrat?
I love what APC lagos is doing Ambode will do his campaigning, Fashola will be tackling Mr Agbaje and Tinubu will liase btw National and State ....
BTW where is Koro??

I am officially addicted to Jimi Agbaje

adaweezy:
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This guy is just Kidding...
Anyway how have you impacted upon the lives of lagosians Has a supposed technocrat?
I love what APC lagos is doing Ambode will do his campaigning, Fashola will be tackling Mr Agbaje and Tinubu will liase btw National and State ....
BTW where is Koro??

janjaweedean, did you go to Koro's house and didn't see him there?

Everybody knows that Ambode is Tinubu's errand boy.... He was the one that fueled the Fashola vs Tinubu crisis sometimes ago. Anytime Tinubu demands for money and Fashola is unwilling to release such money, all he (Tinubu) does is put a call across to Ambode and the rest is history...

How long do we want to continue having ERRAND BOYS running the state. Even Fashola as an incumbent governor was incapacitated at the APC Primaries when his candidate Sashore (SAN) lost out.

Jimi is a politician and has worked together with Tinubu during the Afenifere era, so they knew each other so well, but because Tinubu does not want a politician who may eventual betray him the way he betrayed Ganiyu Dawodu, he masterminded Fashola (a technocrat) to run for the office of the governor. So he systematically pushed Jimi out of the party.

I only pray they don't kill Jimi they way they slaughtered Funsho Williams (R.I.P)

eyeview:
Jimi is miles ahead of Ambode and his masters.

Particularly on this issue raised, Fashola has been a horrendous disappointment and REGRESSIVE governor.

Not many remember how he carried his sick father abroad while telling Lagos doctors, who were on strike, to go to hell literally.

Fashola sends dad abroad for medicare
As the crisis rocking the state's health sector worsens
MAY 13, 2012

Ademola Fashola, the father of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, has been flown to the United States for medical attention for an undisclosed ailment, as the crisis rocking the health sector in the state continues.

The governor's father was said to be accompanied by two doctors from the state, one of who is the Medical Director of Ebute-Metta Health Centre, F. O. Williams.

The governor, on Monday, sacked 788 striking doctors following their failure to respond to queries issued to them to defend the strike action.

The doctors had gone on a three-day warning strike to press for the full implementation of an agreement reached with the state government over an improved salary structure called CONMESS.

A senior official of the state government, who did not want his name published, confirmed that the elder Fashola had been evacuated from the country before the strike.

"I also heard about it but it didn't happen during the ongoing crisis," he said. "I heard that his father had been flown out before the strike started at all."

As at the time of this report, Dr Williams could not be reached as calls made to his mobile phone were unsuccessful.

Following the sacking of the doctors and their subsequent forced eviction from their staff quarters, the state government announced that it has employed 373 substitute doctors into its health system.

The state' Commissioner for Health, Jide Idris, also said more applications have been received from doctors interested in working in state-owned hospitals.

However, checks at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) and some other state-owned hospitals revealed that many of the new doctors were yet to resume; thus jeopardising the fate of hundreds of sick residents.

One of the affected doctors, who also did not want his name published, claimed that the governor once stated, during one of their negotiations, "that he has no need for public hospitals".

"Fashola told us that he doesn't use facilities in state hospitals and that whatever project he carries out there is not for himself," he said.

The doctor also claimed that former Lagos State Governor and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain, Bola Tinubu, last year, at a meeting to broker peace between the state government and the doctors, said the state could afford to shut down all its public hospitals.

"Tinubu told us that if his mother fell ill, he could afford to fly her outside the country and even pay the bills if all residents visited private hospitals," he added.

When contacted, Idris confirmed that the governor's father was recently flown abroad, but on a referral from LASUTH. "He was attended to at the teaching hospital; and it was at the teaching hospital that he was referred abroad," he said, while refusing to state the nature of Fashola's ailment.

From: http://dailytimes.com.ng/article/fashola-sends-dad-abroad-medicare

Yet some of our people not only want to reward these anti-people Thief'nuibu cabal with retention in Lagos state but even worse with promotion to Abuja presidency
How did we become so daft as a people

eaglechild:
We can't complete Lagos light rail project

We obviously can't complete Lekki international phantom airport.

And you will be the biggest fool to think that we can complete Eko Atlantic.

Use your head people where do you think we are getting all the money we are using to sponsor Buhari



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anonimi:
Particularly on this issue raised, Fashola has been a horrendous disappointment and REGRESSIVE governor.

Not many remember how he carried his sick father abroad while telling Lagos doctors, who were on strike, to go to hell literally.





Yet some of our people not only want to reward these anti-people Thief'nuibu cabal with retention in Lagos state but even worse with promotion to Abuja presidency
How did we become so daft as a people

He is a Party National Leader
His Wife is a serving Senator gunning for second term
His Daughter is the Iyaloja General
His son-in-law is a serving house of Reps member
And now you want to give him access to the Presidency.....

Oh God, when will your people be wise.

In as much as I wont like to vote for GEJ, I totally faulted GMB partnership with people who cannot be trusted with public funds. Only God knows how many more family members will be imposed on us.