2019!!GROUP ENDORSES AMBODE IN LAGOS
TWO HORSE RACE
BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU...
A Lagos state based
non -governmental and profit based organization, The Yoruba Self Determination
Advancement Forum [YOSEDAF] has declared that against the background of recent
political developments within the state,the body has decided to throw its full
weights behind the candidature of Mr Jimi Agbaje of the Peoples Democratic
Party [P.D.P.]in the race for who governs the affairs of the state in 2019.
At a packed hall at the Lagos Airport Hotels in Ikeja, Lagos
,Nigeria,the body insisted that it was time that the people work their talk and
as such will not sit back and allow some few individuals to be dictating the
pace of who rule the affairs of the entire state as against the collective will
of the people.
The body noted that with the advent of civil democracy in
the land in 1999 ,the people of the state had 100 percent expectations that
they were going to reap from an expected democratic dividends but quickly added
that this has not being the case due to varying starvation in a lot of people's
lives .
The body lamented what it called the pauperization of the
people in the name of urban renewal while also disagreeing with the destruction
of community market facilities and outright expropriation with concomitant
primitive accumulation of wealth in the hands of a handful few.
The body found it strange at the poor attention being paid
to public education by the current state leadership even with the All Progressives Congress
controlled state government continuing to use free education as some kind of
mantra.
It speaks:"for the genuine and established
industrialists and businessmen ,cut throat taxes and levies and multiple
taxation have suddenly turned seasoned commercial magnates to perpetual
debtors who cannot meet their targets
and are in constant fear of insolvency ,total bankruptcy and the debtors
jail"
"From the foregoing,there is no gainsaying the fact
that Lagos state needs a new lease of life ,there is the need for something
refreshingly different in the Lagos atmosphere ,just as the weak and slippery
ground created by the greed of the few
who have become corrupted absolutely by absolute power must be regained and made firm again for the
good of all and sundry"
The body insisted that it was overly concerned about the
direction the affairs of the state was drifting and that it was high time some
very distinguished Nigerians still very active in their political prime does
something to help in its rescue.
The body added that it endorsed Mr Jimi Kolawole Agbaje due to his ancestry ,enviable pedigree, disciplined
nature, consistency ,fearless nature and the love he has for people of the
grass roots in all ramifications .
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