2019: We’ll free Lagosians from Tinubu, APC’s grip, says ADP
By
The Action Democratic Party (ADP) Lagos State chapter, has said that it would free Lagosians from the grip of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and its national leader, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
The ADP said that they are seriously disturbed by the unfavourable conditions of Lagosians and Nigerians in general, who have continued to wallow in abject poverty due to lack of social amenities, enabling business environment which had made many of them not to benefit from the dividend of democracy but were heavily taxed.
The party in a statement issued on Saturday by its State Publicity Secretary, Prince Adelaja Adeoye, wondered why Lagos, whose internally generated revenue yearly, was about N500billion yearly cannot provide clean potable water for residents, but instead charges levies on residence with bore holes in their homes providing water for themselves.
The statement said that it was sad that Lagos had continued to make international news in bad light, wondering why the APC-led government would continue to brag about Lagos being a mega city when major roads, public schools and public infrastructures were in state of coma.
The party further accused former governor of the State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, of slowing down the progress of the state by commercialising and politicising the state for personal gains, stressing that Tinubu’s continuous imposition of candidates for elective positions in the state was to cover up the fraud the party had perpetuated in the state since 1999.
“What is happening now is that if the state is not called the dirtiest slum, it is called most stressful state for workers in Africa. This is as a result of inadequate amenities to support workers in the state.
“Why the APC-led government continues to brag about Lagos being a mega city when major roads, public schools and public infrastructures in the state are in comatose. Despite the yearly allocations of billions of Naira for roads and other infrastructural developments, most of the outer and inner roads in the state are eye sore, impassable, with inferior construction for the few ones done”.
The party will work harder to present credible individuals with required leadership skill set, focusing on competence, capacity and character, whose aim will be to provide good services and purposeful leadership to all Lagosians in its forthcoming primary elections ahead of the 2019 elections.
“No man is above the law, we urged the EFCC to look into the fraud, tax evasion and money laundering allegations of N150 billion levelled against Alpha Beta by its former Managing Director, Dapo Apara, a company reportedly linked to the former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu”.
Iniobong Iwok