The 2023 governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran (aka Jandor) has said that he will free the state from the stranglehold of former Governor and presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu.
Jandor vowed to end what he described as Tinubu’s 24-year monopoly in the state.
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“We will come in and do things differently. The problem of Lagos is that we have one head thinking for the state of Lagos for the past 24 years,” Jandor said on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Thursday.
He also accused Tinubu of continuously removing “performing governors” in the state.
Jandor said though former Governor Babatunde Fashola survived an attempt to remove him in 2011 and returned for a second term, his successor, Akinwunmi Ambode couldn’t survive a plot that saw him removed after a single term in 2019.
He promised to decentralise developments across the 20 local government areas of the state if elected in the forthcoming polls.
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“In our very first year in office, we will do a whole lot across Lagos. We need to decentralise development. Everybody comes to the centre for greener pastures but if you give the development where they are, they will actually stay there.
“We will do a whole lot because we will be coming in as independent government; the one not tied to the apron string of anybody and that will allow us to make Lagos wealth that we only hear about now, work for Lagos,” he said.