Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the All
Progressives (APC) Candidate for Lagos Guber election, says people should get
it out of their blocked brains that he came out from nowhere.
The former commissioner of
establishment, training, and pensions, said he started the first pension
commission anywhere in Nigeria, stating that he had always been in the system.
Sanwo-Olu, who said he has 30
years of postgraduate experience adds that he worked in the private sector for
17 years and the public sector for 13 years.
Clearing the air on his
controversial emergence as governorship candidate in Lagos, Sanwo-Olu told
Channels TV that those complaining can’t cry more than the bereaved.
“I really don’t know what
controversy you are talking about. You cannot cry more than the bereaved. You
cannot start a race until when INEC say you start the race,” Sanwo-Olu said.
“You can not start an agenda of
politics if the right atmosphere is not ripe. There is no need for me raising
my hand two-three years ago, if there is no vacancy, if there is no means, if
there is no time that says that this is time for you to start.
“It was when they said we should
start that I started. It is just that all of us need to take it out of our
blocked brains that if you don’t know somebody and you now know somebody, you
would be wondering where does this guy appear from?
“I have always been there. I have
done a lot of firsts, firsts, first, which are not directly attributable to me
but which we need to bring out now.”
I PAID THE FIRST N18,000 MINIMUM
WAGE
The APC candidate went on to reel
out his achievements including the set up of Lagos Pension Commission and
LAGBUS.
“I was the one that set up the
security trust fund, a lot of people don’t know that The first tenure of BRF,
within the first two months, with all of the contacts I have in the private
sector, we got all of the bank MDs, we raised over 260 vehicles in the first
six months,” he added.
“I ran the security trust fund
before my dear uncle, Makanjuola, became the chairman, I brought out the
blueprint.
“Secondly, I started LAGBUS, I
registered LAGBUS, I wasn’t commissioner of transport. We went to Cairo, we did
a 200-bus procurement off-balance sheet, meaning that without any recourse to
government.
“I started the first pension
commission in this country, even before the federal government started their
own commission. I paid the person that paid the first N18,000 minimum wage
before even the federal government paid theirs.”
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