Agbaje says Lagos has always done well under opposition

Lagos State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, says the state has always been doing well as an opposition state.

Agbaje said this in a statement while reacting to claims by the All Progressives Congress governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, who said that Lagos would perform better if it was aligned to the centre.

Agbaje had also said during a governorship debate (before President Goodluck Jonathan’s defeat), that Lagos would experience better development if it was aligned with the centre. The APC had since last week been using it to campaign against him.

However, on Sunday, Agbaje said Lagos had always been in the opposition since the Second Republic when the Unity Party of Nigeria under the leadership of Alhaji Lateef Jakande, transformed the state.

He noted that during the short-lived Third Republic, Lagos belonged to the National Republican Convention of Sir. Michael Otedola and in the Fourth Republic, it was under the leadership of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and then Governor Babatunde Fashola who had been in the opposition until the APC won the presidential election last week.

Agbaje said the people of Lagos had nothing to fear if they remained in the opposition because the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, had promised that he would not run a vindictive government.

The PDP governorship candidate said since the APC was demanding for change, change must also come to Lagos next Saturday.

...Punch