An aspirant for governorship on a Peoples Democratic Party ticket in Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi, has said the residents of the state will free themselves from the grasp of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu in 2015.
He said there was no chance the former legislative head of the state would keep on determining what’s to come for the people of the state, including that the decision party in the state, the All Progressives Congress, will not win the coming governorship race.
Gbadamosi, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, asked the media not to be diverted with purposeful publicity, which he said, was being utilized by the APC to mislead the individuals of the state.
He said, “There are issues in Lagos, upon which the media need to beam its searchlight. It will appear that to some extent, the public is being misled with what is going on in Lagos State: that there is unprecedented progress in Lagos, whereas what we have is unprecedented stagnation.
“There is a very serious infrastructure deficit in Lagos and we have never experienced the type of gridlock we are experiencing in the state now.
“You can spend six hours from Ibeju Lekki to Ojo or Agege. So, where are the projects we hear in the news? Most of the projects are just maintenance of what have been on the grounds for decades because no new routes have been opened in the past 16 years.
“This is the first time we would experience such. Lagos was established in 1967 and between then, Lagos-Ikorodu Road was expanded and later Lagos -Ibadan Expressway was built and the Third Mainland Bridge was also built.
“I know that Lagos deserves better than what it is getting now. Things have been worse in the last 10 years.
“It is clear that the current government does not know what it is doing. The cost of N2.2bn per kilometre in the expansion of Lekki-Epe Road is criminal.
“It looks like the Lekki -Epe concession company did not put down any kobo and yet it is milking people dry. (ireporterstv)
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