and Lagos state governor, Babatunde Fashola, shows no sign of abating
anytime soon.
While these two have gone head to head and taken on each other
verbally at different campaign venues and the latest offering of which
comes from Agbaje, who goes out of his way to explain to Fashola, that
experience is nothing without a 'human face'.
1. "I've always maintained that knocking Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN)
for his achievements all because I'm running for Governor on a
different platform will just be playing mere politics - and that's not
what I've set out to do in this campaign. However, I like to think
that Governor B.R. Fashola (SAN) and I have very different positions
and ideologies when it comes to leadership and what we both think is
critical to developing Lagos into a world class mega-city."
2. "What's the purpose of building schools, if our children cannot
afford it? What's the purpose of building bridges, if it doesn't
connect people to commercial activity? What's the purpose of
leadership, if there are no followers? What's the purpose of such
great prosperity, if it doesn't trickle down to the least of us? This
is where I think we fundamentally differ."
3. "There's a semblance of being progressive on the surface but the
position and decisions that the honorable Governor has made over his
tenure leaves us to wonder if truly he and the leaders in the Lagos'
ruling party, the APC, are true Progressives - in the footsteps of
great Yoruba leaders like Awolowo and LK Jakande."
4. "You see being progressive has nothing to do with your party. It's
in your lifestyle, in your instinct, it's subconscious. I learnt this
from my great mentor Pa Abraham Adesanya - A man that took me under
his wings as a young politician and taught me all that I know about
politics. He would say, "It's about the people, Jimi. At the end of
the day, no other metric counts, no validation is greater than the one
you see on the faces and in the lives of our people. If they are
hungry and without jobs; if they're without a roof over their heads;
if they're uneducated and lack the basic life skills to compete; then
we've all failed even if we build the tallest of skyscrapers or the
longest of bridges."
5. "So don't lecture me on experience. If your so called experience
doesn't have a human face to it, it's all for nothing. Let me assure
Lagosians that hope is on the way. And being a Pharmacist myself and
understanding the importance of a healthy people to national
development, I intend to do more in this area. I have said under my
watch, we shall introduce a free-health insurance scheme that would be
beneficial to Lagosians and service providers, amongst other things.
It's bold - no doubt - but it's possible. As long as we have the the
political will to see it through, it will happen."
6. "Government must begin to work not for a few elites that gather on
the main streets of Bourdillon but for ALL people. Whether you're a
banker or a blacksmith, an electrician or an exporter, teachers, Okada
riders, students and lecturers. We are all one people in pursuit of
the basic needs in life: opportunity, liberty, dignity of work and the
pursuit of happiness."
7. "So in this election, let us make it clear to the opposition that
when it comes to being Progressive: It is not in the size of the cap,
it's in the THOUGHTS. It's not by the shape of the glasses, it's in
the VISION. And it's definitely not for them to decide whose feet the
shoes fit. Our progressiveness is about the PATH that Lagosians
themselves choose to travel and our ability as leaders to harness
that."
--YNAIJA
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