The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South-West, Chief Makanjuola Ogundipe, says Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has not performed exceedingly well to deserve all the accolades he has been receiving from residents of the state.
According to the PDP chieftain, the Lagos governor had not performed up to his Akwa Ibom State counterpart, Mr. Godswill Akpabio.
Ogundipe said this at a forum of Local Government Area chairmen under the aegis of Goodluck Lagos Grassroots Project in Lagos on Monday.
He spoke alongside PDP leaders in the zone at the event themed, ‘Transformation Agenda: Continuity for National Progress’.
He said, “No one should say Fashola is doing well in Lagos. Go to Akwa Ibom and see what the governor is doing there. Look at the stadium in Akwa Ibom. How many stadiums has Fashola built? There are bad roads all over the state with heavy traffic every day.
“Instead of Fashola to fix the roads, he was busy repairing Federal Government roads and sending inflated bills to the Federal Government as the cost of repair”.
Ogundipe admitted that the Goodluck Jonathan administration had not been able to achieve much for the people of the South-West but said it was because Yorubas were not contributing to the success of the president.
He, therefore, called on the people of the region, especially Lagos, to ensure that the PDP clinched most of the positions up for elections including National Assembly seats so that Yorubas would be able to get juicy positions.
He said, “If you take a look at the current structure of the Federal Government, you will see that the South-West has been shortchanged. The reason is clear; we did not contribute to the success of the President. We are not even in key positions at the National Assembly and we find it hard to get highly placed positions.
“We must ensure that we vote for the PDP in all positions so that we can have a National Assembly that will make life easy for the President”.
He also said the political career of a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would come to an end next year after his party, the All Progressives Congress, would have lost the Lagos and presidential elections.
Speaking in the same vein, the Lagos PDP Chairman, Captain Tunji Shelle (retd.), said Jonathan would get 99 per cent of the votes in Lagos State.
“With a voting population of six million and counting, we have assured Mr. President that he will get 5.9 million votes in Lagos”, he said.
I’d like to remind ogundipe dat akwa ibom has d highest federal allocation in naija and hw van u compare lagos to uyo?uyo is jst a city while lagos is a metropolis if he doesn’t knw.