Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has reiterated that his government will be people-oriented, just as Mr. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, urged the Lagos electorates to vote for him and his running mate, Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, in the Saturday election, saying no one should trade experience for someone merely desperate to be governor.
Speaking during a live television interview programme on Television Continental, where he, Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat were guests, Fashola, who was the immediate-past governor of Lagos, said that voting for the APC candidate would guarantee continuity of the great strides that Lagos had made since 1999.
According to the former governor, the candidacy of Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat was the best that could happen to Lagosians, saying the two men were not novices to the workings of government.
“They are not only tested, but have also been part of the process of development that Lagos has witnessed since 1999 till date,” he added.
Fashola said that Lagos could not afford to experiment at this point in the history of the state, stressing that the people had gone beyond that stage where governance would be left in the hands of inexperienced individuals.
“We have gone beyond the stage of experimenting. This is not a state to experiment,” he stressd.
Imploring voters to cast their ballot for the APC, Fashola said it was not that Sanwo-Olu and Hamzat were the most brilliant, but they had what it would take to provide good governance by the virtue of the experiences they had garnered over the years, both in private and public sectors.
He, therefore, urged Lagosians not to jeopardise their future by allowing novices to take over the reins of governance.
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Sanwo-Olu, while assuring Lagosians that their needs were captured in his planned programme, tagged ‘Project THEME’, saaaaid the manifesto was the product of broad consultations the team embarked on during the campaign.
He said: “Our government is to serve the people. Not necessarily from our own point of view alone, but also from what people want. We campaigned vigorously throughout the state, where huge consultations were made.
“We visited all the local governments, interacting with many groups that included the artisans, market men and women, traditional rulers, transport operators, including every cultural and ethnic groups and many more.
“So, our programme of action, apart from what we felt should be done, were arrived at from these interactions.”
Hamzat, on his own, said technology would take the centre stage in their government, even as he specifically mentioned education, traffic management, health, the economy and security as the sectors that technology would play prominent roles.
Hamzat emphasised the need to expand the state’s tax base, noting that much money would be required to meet government’s obligations to the people.
