Olajide Adediran, governorship candidate of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, says the poverty level in the state has
increased since the start of Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s government.
Adediran said this on Sunrise Daily, a Channels Television
programme, on Thursday.
He said the unemployment rate has skyrocketed from 14.6 per
cent to 37.6 per cent, adding that the state, considered the commercial capital
of the nation, is not living up to its potential.
“Poverty rate when this guy (Sanwo-Olu) came into government
in 2019 was 4.5 per cent today it is 8.5 per cent. The unemployment rate when
he came into office was 14.6 per cent, today it is 37.16 per cent,” he said.
“That is what the
latest NBS report says. We had another report that in the year 2022, Lagos is
not ranked among the top five states with fiscal performance with all the
money. Another report speaks about the safest state in Nigeria, Lagos is not
among the first 10.
“You have a government with huge resources and you still
have all these statistics not speaking to the successes, it shows failure. The
reason is not far-fetched, there is a monopoly that will need to break up to
open up the space for new and fresh ideas. Until that is done, we will continue
to have the same report.”
Adediran, who was a former member of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), said Sanwo-Olu, the incumbent governor of the state, does not
have the political structure to win the governorship election, noting that he
is inconsequential in the large scheme of things.
“The current governor
is a product of the terrible system that we are speaking to. As far as this
campaign and everything is concerned, I will tell you that the current governor
is inconsequential,” he said.
“He is inconsequential because politically he has no
experience, he has no structure, and somebody just handed that office to him on
a platter of gold.”
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