LAGOS 2015: YOU’LL FAIL AGAIN JUST LIKE YOU DID IN 2007 – TINUBU TELLS AGBAJE

A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and immediate past Governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu, has said the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the state for the February elections, Jimi Agbaje, will fail again like he did in 2007. 

 

Tinubu said this at the Lagos-West senatorial district campaign of the APC on Wednesday. 

 

According to him, Agbaje is not a saleable candidate and is also no match for the APC candidate, Akinwunmi Ambode. 

 

The former governor said when the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration refused to give Lagos State its allocation and the state could not pay salaries, it was Ambode, who was the then Accountant-General that transformed the economy which led to the increase in the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, and turned the state into one of the biggest economies in Africa. 

 

“In 2007, we had governorship primary and Fashola won but he (Agbaje) failed and refused to accept the result. I told him to accept the fact that Fashola was more diligent and experienced than him but we told him to remain in the party and we would teach him the way but he refused. 

 

“You see, when a toddler is trying to run when he cannot even walk properly, his mother has to guide him so that he will not fall and break his teeth. He left and joined the Democratic Peoples Alliance. The DPA presented him as its candidate but he failed, we beat him mercilessly.
 

“Later, he wanted to return to the party and we asked him if he would become a commissioner but we knew it was unlikely because he had even refused to be the deputy governor. Before we knew it, he had gone to join the Ebola party. God forbid that Ebola takes over Lagos. 

 

“See where we are coming from and where we are going. They say they want to replace us in Lagos. Someone who cannot take care of himself wants to take care of Lagos. Don’t experiment with Lagos,” Tinubu said. 

 

Speaking also at the event, Governor Babatunde Fashola, slammed President Goodluck Jonathan for always blaming the insecurity in the country on previous administrations. He also urged the people of the state vote Ambode, saying he was convinced he is the right man for the job. 

 

Fashola said, “I have never said I cannot do my job because my predecessor failed. To say that you cannot buy guns because Maj. Gen Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) failed to do so is flimsy. 

 

Our military were one of the most respected and did well in Sierra Leone and Liberia. “Even if Buhari did not buy guns, is it the guns of 1985 that he wants to use to fight today?” 

 

In his remarks, Ambode, promised to build on the achievements of Tinubu and Fashola. 

 

He also said his government would set up an employment trust fund and make loans available to entrepreneurs, but warned that if PDP was voted into power, they’ll run down the economy of the state which has been improving despite the global fall in oil price.
 

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