APC used the same Lagos-Abuja alignment strategy for both Ambode and Buhari's campaign, and they have maintained their ground, while Mr Jimi Agbaje has been speaking in a dishonourable manner from both sides of the mouth. Now that GEJ has lost, JK is telling us that Lagos does not need the center, and that he is separate from the PDP. JK is an intelligent man who is ready to say and do anything, no matter how ridiculous, to win elections. We must reject double speak!
JK claims to be independent minded. It shows his shallow understanding of multi-party democracy,a fundamental component of which is party supremacy. Besides, how can Mr. Agbaje boast of being independent minded when he was rigged in as candidate in a brutal display of shame of a party primary, while he looked on helplessly and basked in the europhia of such rape on democratic tenets, where the minority was greater than the majority? An everlasting PDP doctrine that has been repeated at the Governor’s forum elections where 16 was greater than 19, Ekiti state National assembly saga where 7 was greater than 19, just to mention a few.
How does JK intend to repay his financiers and those who defied all democratic decorum to rig him in? Now that PDP has lost the center and Obanikoro can no longer be compensated at the center as promised, will he also fall back to Lagos for compensation? And is it with the same funding that the APC government is generating from the same taxes JK has promised to reduce?
Mr JK, how do you intend to reduce personal income taxes, when it is the prerogative of the National assembly and President? Do you even understand the Nigerian tax system at all? Why promise to un-ban Okada when Okada was banned in major PDP states and Abuja way before Lagos effected its partial ban? Is this another vain promise?
If you are now distancing yourself from the PDP, how do you plan to govern efficiently in a disgruntled political platform? Or do you intend to also decamp since your double speak has shown you have little regards for honour? Should a honourable politician be hobnobbing with an ex-convict, even as his godfather?
If from your write up, you have admitted the APC government has done well even without federal support, don't you think they will do better now that the same ex-APC governors, who drafted the governance model and plans for Lagos, and know where the shoe pinches in Lagos, are going to be part of the government at the center? Should we sacrifice this promising future for your mostly impractical promises?
Besides, why did JK blatantly declare outbreak of violence and insurgency, and a system shut down if GEJ looses, saying it was the only way Nigeria could peacefully progress, and now turnaround to ask for a peaceful relationship from GMB's government if he wins? Thought you had no faith in the continued peaceful existence of Nigeria without GEJ?
I advise all Lagosians to take a sip of water, and critically examine this man called Jimi Agbaje, before buying his sweet-talk hook, line, and sinker!
JK is PDP, especially now that they have lost the center. PDP needs Lagos as their new cash cow since Abuja is gone. Bode George needs a new NPA and a new avenue to access public treasury. All other PDP cabals need Lagos as their last hope to fall back on. Bola Tinubu isn't perfect. But the APC has a tested governance model that is functioning and has been largely commended. PDP has none, and is full of hawks and sycophants who ruined President Jonathan’s administration and will come back to Lagos to feed fat and take us back 16yrs!
We pray that doesn't happen. This is the closest we've ever been to Lagos-Abuja governance alignment. And a Lagos government in collaboration with a Buhari-Osinbajo led federal government is way better than a government under the same bandwagon of leadership failures we chased out from Abuja.
God bless Lagos!
