The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Lagos State Adedeji Doherty has reacted to the statement credited to the Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, blasting him for saying that PDP has not been detained to win elections in the State.
Doherty made the remark on Friday at the 8-Day Fidual Prayers of one of the chieftains of the party in Badagry. He maintained that Balogun was definitely not in touch with the reality on ground.
The PDP leader said he could recall the very narrow results of the 2019 presidential elections and should be battle-ready for 2023, stressing that the APC had continued to enjoy the spoils of their 20 years of rigged elections in the State. He pointed out that it would all come to an end very soon.
“Lagos State is yearning for change and the change must come. We have endured 20 years of degradation whereby the State debt had hit the rooftop of over N2trillion naira and still climbing. Our industries have collapsed, unemployment is astronomical, education is nonexistent, healthcare is not affordable and it is behind in terms of equipment and staffing.
“Our roads have turned to death traps with potholes and traffic congestion spread all over the State, abandoned projects litter the whole State, including the Atlantic City.”
Doherty said that there were no libraries nor recreational centres for children neither was there modernised stadium or sports centre built over the past 20 years.
He said that the APC had always won elections in Lagos when PDP was not ready to contest any election. “Look at the various health epidemics resulting from the dumpsites all over the State. This is indeed a dehumanizing policy, which allows the Lagos Stare Waste Management Agency (LAWMA) dump refuse around residential areas, a disgusting sight.
He maintained that a political party which could not sort out traffic congestion along the Apapa axis, the Badagry corridor and the wanton contractual corruption going on in the State. He stressed that as a Lagosian by birth, he knew that the PDP was getting ready for a battle time come 2023.
