……. Receives Endorsement From Groups In Alimosho
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran (JANDOR), has said that he would allow local governments to operate independently if elected in 2023.
Adediran, who stated this during the kickoff of his gubernatorial campaign tour of Alimosho local government area, said that his administration would ensure funds accruing to councils across Lagos was not tempered with.
He added that there would be mechanism that would monitor judicious use of councils funds for projects that would benefits the people of the council.
Adediran lamented the deplorable state of infrastructural across councils areas across Lagos State, saying that it was an indication of the failure of the Sanwo-Olu’s led administration in the state.
“We would run a government that is responsive and accountable to the people of Lagos State.
We would make sure that the roads are motorable.
“My administration would give autonomy to the councils, any amount given to them we would ensure it is judiciously spend in executing projects for the people in the council.
“This is part the reasons why I am doing wards tour of the state to see what the people need, I want to go everywhere across Lagos”, Adediran said.
Meanwhile, Adediran had received endorsement from political leaders, artisan groups and religious leaders in the council.
Receiving the PDP candidate, the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the council, Owoeye Taiwo, lamented that despite the huge voting population of the people in the Alimosho, successive administrations in the state had not done much for the council, adding that several part of the state lacks basic amenities and had been neglected.
He added that the people were tired of failed promises by political leaders, while advising the PDP candidate to keep to his campaign promises if elected into office after the gubernatorial election in 2023.
The PDP candidate also received endorsement from tailoring association in Alimosho during his campaign visit.
Hakeem Kolade, chairman of the association in the council pledged that the group would work assiduously towards the electoral victory of the PDP candidate in the gubernatorial.
Kolade noted that it was time for Lagos State to have a governor that would have all spectrum of the people at heart, adding that the people are tired of the APC administration in Lagos.
“We are tired of APC, that is why when you see our members a lot of them are suffering, the country is becoming more difficult everyday.
“Nothing have changed in the last eight years, rather we are finding it difficult to survive. We would come out and vote for you next year and we are asking all our members to do same”, Kolade said.
Responding, the PDP candidate said that he would work for the overall interest of Lagosians, promising that he would give compulsory education from primary to secondary school with free school uniforms.
According to him, “I would make sure that I give free education from Primary to secondary, with free uniforms.
“If elected my government would be our government, it remains in our hands and we have only eight years that day to decide”.
Similarly, the PDP governorship candidate also received endorsement from non-Yoruba speaking indigenes in the council, and several political leaders after he visited their wards.
The PDP candidate and his campaign team would spend three days touring major wards in the council.
