The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor), kicks off his campaign today at Alimosho Local Government Area of the state.
Jandor said he and his team would tour the 245 wards in the state, adding that it was time to dislodge the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 governorship election.
He expressed confidence to win the election, stressing that it is overwhelmingly evident that the popularity of the APC in the state has dropped significantly due to the Sanwo-Olu’s administration’s poor performance.
The PDP candidate noted that there was a need for Lagosians to vote for someone who can rescue the state from years of failure and poor governance by the ruling APC administration despite party affiliations.
Jandor assured his audience that after a study of the state, he had carefully itemised and listed solutions to problems in all sectors in his manifesto, in a bid to transform Lagos.
“They have conditioned our system to think governance is rocket science. We are coming and we are going to do it better.
“This election, all of us need to collapse our party affiliations and say for the first time, ‘we can vote for an independent governor that would work for all of us.’ That is, a man that would not require second approval to do anything.”
“We have issues in Lagos State, some of these issues would take a while, but we would initiate policies that would deal with every sector one by one.
“What we hear is huge money coming to Lagos, but we don’t see anything on the street of Lagos, rather than admitting to their failures they are making excuses.”
The governorship candidate berated governor Sanwo-Olu’s administration, saying that the recent 30-year Lagos Development Plan published by the government is not different from the previous development plan prepared 10 years ago.
“What they have in their new 30-year plan ((2022-2052) is to make Lagos a mega city, which was what they had in the plan in the last 10 years,” he said.
He promised residents that he would change the face of governance, create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive, and promote the rule of law, equity, inclusiveness, security, transparency and accountability in his first 100 days in office if elected.