The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has explained why Lagosians should reject the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate, Jide Adediran, at the poll.
He said the main opposition candidate, who worked with him as a cameraman and consultant when he was governor, lacked the required maturity, experience, competence and capacity to run Lagos, which is the fifth-largest economy in Africa.
Fashola maintained that being a cameraman and following the governor to state functions do not qualify Adediran to be governor.
The PDP candidate, a former reporter with Lagos Television when Fashola was governor, covered the Lagos State House at times handled the camera during the governor’s events. He owns the Core Media.
However, Fashola put him on the scale during the launch of Eko O ni baje 10,000 Foot Soldiers for Tinubu/Shettima and Sanwo-Olu/Hamzat, saying that his “boy” does not have the qualities required for the number one seat in the state.
Reacting to the minister’s comment, Adediran said he was never a cameraman. He said he will continue to hold his former boss in high esteem.
The former governor said PDP cannot win presidential poll because it is polarise.
Fashola, who is also the Director of Election Planning and Monitoring, APC Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), canvassed support for the APC presidential standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, his running mate, Senator Kashim Shettima, Governor Babaijde Sanwo-Olu and his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat.
Fashola, who took a swipe at the PDP, said: “Some people say they will take the land from us. That is too much. I did the job of a governor for eight years and part of what helped me was that I was Chief of Staff to the governor. Even, that was not enough.
“So, just following a governor being a cameraman and then, watching me for eight years, then, you think you will now be a governor, you are not ready. Come to our leadership school, you are not yet ready.
“That is why you will see that they are focusing on the 51 billion naira Lagos State is generating. You did not see the immigrant population that is coming into Lagos every day. The bigger the prosperity, the bigger the problem. Their party doesn’t see people; they don’t see the problem.”
Fashola urged members of the APC to canvas massively so that more people can vote for the party.