•Lagos APC chairman: campaign starts Monday
Lagos State All Progressives Congress (APC) deputy governorship candidate Dr. Obafemi Hamzat yesterday said there would be chaos if the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is voted back into office.
Urging Nigerians to reject the party, the former Works Commissioner stressed that the “PDP should be dead and buried in 2019”.
Hamzat spoke at the unveiling of APC’s campaign vehicles at the party’s office on Acme Road, Ogba, Ikeja.
The ceremony was presided over by the state Chairman, Alhaji Tunde Balogun, who announced that the campaigns would begin on Monday at the Ikeja Division.
The chairman said the branded vehicles would be distributed to the 57 councils for campaigns, adding that they would be returned to the party secretariat after the elections.
Hamzat said: “We are unveiling the vehicles to disseminate information in Lagos, the Southwest and Nigeria. Our campaigns will be very easy because the PDP government let Nigeria down in 16 years. They spent N1.7 trillion on power in 16 years and they could only generate 2,950 megawatts (MW). Between 2015 and now, the APC government has generated 16,500MW.
“The PDP-led Federal Government did not finish a single road between 1999 and 2015. The asphalt for Oyo-Ogbomoso road was not done. The Gombe-Yola-Taraba road, which leads to the state of their candidate, was done by this government. We should protect Nigeria. The PDP should not return to power for the sake of our children.
“When there was oil money, the PDP did less. We have done more with less: N266 billion was put in the budget. That is why we could finish the roads.
“The PDP government claimed it has done Ibadan-Oyo-Ogbomoso road. It was just the bidding cost. The PDP should be buried. They never did well.”
Hamzat chided the Lagos State PDP governorship candidate, Mr Jimi Agbaje, for promising to give freedom to Lagosians.
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The APC chieftain emphasised that the state had been liberated since 1999.
He said: “Agbaje is talking about freedom. Who has put him in shackles? Who is enslaving them? They are not talking about education, road, water, health. In 1999, Lagos was a bankrupt state. The state was earning N600 million monthly. The salary was N1.2 billion. Asiwaju Tinubu raised the internally generated revenue (IGR) of the state.
“Lagos has grown phenomenally. It can survive without the Federal Government. Lagos is the fifth largest economy in Africa; bigger than 31 countries.”
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