Lagos PDP governorship candidate Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran (Jandor) has declared that he will fix critical issues in the state once elected at the 2023 polls.
Dr. Olajide made this assertion in a chat with newsmen in Lagos on Sunday at the Protea Hotel & Suite Ikeja, adding that all the state needs is a Governor that need not await directives from someone else but has the developmental blueprints skewed out from the start.
“There is only one thing that we need, this election all of us need to collapse all party affiliations for an independent governor who does not require second level approval to make Lagos work. It is time to berth a Lagos wealthy in truth, not on paper.
Jandor reiterated his plans to declare a state of emergency in the education sector, which has well over 2million children out of school through deliberate partnership with over 18,000 private schools in the state to take them off the streets, while the private schools are given tax holiday.
He also intend to automate all health facilities in the state to ensure availability of bed space for patients seeking healthcare as well as abolishing all forms of inhuman treatment meted out on them.
On the issue of traffic robbery, Jandor unveil a strategy he feels will debar such which will be routed through the NURTW leadership in the identified black spots within their garages.
Jandor said that: “We are much aware of what we want to do, I started from the ruling party deliberately to commit that unpardonable sin, as you should never have that aspiration , the day you do you are marked.
According to Jandor many of the costly economic mistakes of the present administration in the state are traceable to the manner the reins of power was suddenly tossed at them, when they least expected, so they end up being dictated to.
He cited the movement of the organisation of Headies Award to Atlanta Georgia as a clear indication that the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration lacks what it takes to bolster the state’s economy to harness its inherent wealth potentials.
Jandor also berated the state government for not putting round pegs in round holes as regards many of its appointments of agencies headship, citing the drainage and water resources Special Adviser Engineer Joe Igbokwe as only active on facebook and a booth licker rather than functioning in the assigned duties.
Speaking to his manifesto and campaign strategy, the PDP gubernatorial candidate said that many Lagosians and especially majority of the people within the ruling party yearn for a Governor that does not require second level approval before doing anything, a yearning he is poised to satiate.
He further made public that his campaign will commence Wednesday 19th October 2022 at Alimosho local government and will go round the 245 wards of the state.
” We are hitting the streets with our campaign Wednesday 19th October is the flag off date in Alimosho and we will visit the whole 245 wards in the state.
“Everybody must know and feel their Governor not like before where they have such only introduced to them .
“ Majority of the people within the ruling party want it badly- the change, a Governor that does not require second level approval before doing anything.
“It is the ruling party’s style to choose an unprepared mind for governor of the state, such cannot create political structure, we did.
“We now have a new Lagos PDP thirsty for winning election, our candidacy signals a radical departure from the norm.
“It is time for all of us to come together and be deliberate about it. They lack the idea of what it take to run the government.”
Meanwhile Mr. Pelumi Ayanwola brother to the late Bamise who was murdered while on board a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle from Ajah Area of Lagos, was also at the venue of the parley and he cleared the air on the claim that Jandor lied about settling the mortuary charges that the Mainland Hospital Mortuary Yaba was said to have demanded from the bereaved family, before the corpse of their slain daughter deposited there could be taken for proper burial rites.
Pelumi noted that contrary to the state government’s claim that they paid the said charges already, it was Jandor who called on him having got the wind of the development to hear him out and do the needful out of compassion and that not until the government saw the news report on 10th of October of the gesture from him towards the family, they never cared.
In his words,“Jandor did not lie, I was the one that insist that let’s allow the world know that he paid. government was barely reacting to the news they saw.
“ We appeal to the Lagos State government, please know that we have blood running in our veins too, please show some empathy and not add insult to the injury we are nursing.” Pelumi said.