The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has berated the<\/p>\n
governorship candidate of the PDP, Mr. Jimmy Agbaje for saying that he
\nwill cancel the Public Private Participation arrangement that saw to the
\nexecution of the Lekki-\u00c9p\u00e9 Expreessway.<\/p>\n
The party said the threat is an irrational election promise directed at
\nforeign investors, which stands to cripple the economy of Lagos and affect
\nthe wobbling Nigerian economy.<\/p>\n
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of
\nthe APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that it is quite surprising that at
\nthis age and time when the drive for foreign investment is needed to break
\nthe shackles of economic doom, an aspiring candidate to the Lagos State
\ngovernorship stool should issue such naked threat to Investors to boost
\nhis electoral chances.<\/p>\n
The party said that an Agbaje\/PDP government will spell doom as the
\nsixteen disastrous PDP wreckage of the country.<\/p>\n
“Two days after Agbaje’s disastrous election promise to cancel the
\nforeign-driven concession on the Lekki-\u00c9p\u00e9 Expressway, Punch newspapers
\ncarried a report that foreign investors, alarmed by the economic and
\npolitical risks in the country, had pulled out N783.17 billion from the
\nNigerian Stiock Exchange. This is an alarming economic statistics that
\nshould worry every Nigerian but in his desperation to con Lagosians of
\nvotes, Agbaje is threatening to stop foreign investment in Lagos such as
\nthe concession arrangement behind the construction and subsequent tolling
\nof Lekki-\u00c9p\u00e9 Expressway.<\/p>\n
“Lagosians will like to know from Agbaje and his PDP why their PDP federal
\ngovernment is promising a non existent 1.8 kilometers Second Niger Bridge
\nthat will be tolled from at least six positions for twenty five years
\nwhile he is making a campaign issue of tolling a well delivered Lekki-\u00c9p\u00e9
\nExpressway that meets the great needs of the beneficiary towns for a
\nrelief from endless traffic bottlenecks the PDP federal government has
\nturned blind eyes to.<\/p>\n
“Again, Lagosians are aware that the dilapidated Airport Road, which the
\nPDP federal government has abandoned while playing politics with completed
\nworld class roads in Lagos is tolled and we wonder why Agbaje and Lagos
\nPDP have not promised Lagosians that their assumed government will not
\nonly stop toll collection on the road but will build him in the unlikely
\nevent that they control the government of Lagos State.<\/p>\n
” Lagos APC notes that out of frustration from the criminal negligence the
\nPDP federal government has meted out to federal roads in Lagos for the
\npast sixteen years, the Lagos State government has undertaken the
\nreconstruction of many federal roads in Lagos and is currently delivering
\nworld class reconstruction of such roads like the Lagos- Ikorodu Road and
\nthe Lagos- Badagry Expressway which serves as a gateway to the country but
\nwhich had been completely abandoned by the PDP federal
\ngovernment.<\/p>\n
“But we find it alarming that someone that dreams of governing Lagos is
\nissuing such economically disastrous threat to foreign investment in a
\nstate like Lagos when the federal government under the control of his
\nparty has made the sing song of attracting elusive foreign investment the
\nepicenter of its failed economic programme for the past sixteen years.
\nWhen we consider that his party is today promising Igbo an elusive Second
\nNiger Bridge that will be built through PPP and the same concession
\narrangement that drives the Lekki-\u00c9p\u00e9 Expressway, we cannot but expose the
\nshallowness, desperation and hypocrisy of Jimmy Agbaje and the Lagos PDP.<\/p>\n
“It is easy to make bogus promises like Agbaje is now dishing out but
\npracticality it is Nothing entirely. We know those dragging Agbaje like a
\nsoulless puppet rank among the worst types of pests that can descend on
\nany entity. The Disaster the PDP led governance has made of Nigeria in
\nsixteen years is all there to warn us to visit pestilence and destruction
\non a working, stable and secure state like Lagos that mops up the fall
\nouts of the wreckage which PDP had made of Nigeria in the past sixteen
\nyears. Lagosians are warned that Agbaje and PDP have nothing to offer
\nLagos than to reduce it to the same rubble PDP has reduced Nigeria in
\nsixteen years of unprecedented waste laying.”<\/p>\n
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