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Olajide Adediran, also known as Jandor, the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate for governor in Lagos State, has demanded that Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu quit due to the state’s recent string of building collapses.
This came after a seven-story building collapsed on Sunday at Oniru Estate in Victoria Island, killing no less than six people.
Adediran stated that the governor of Lagos State has made numerous unmet pledges to stop these calamities and the ensuing preventable deaths in a statement released on Wednesday and signed by his media assistant, Gbenga Ogunleye.
“It is not enough that the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, the government official assigned to the Ministry in question, resigned,” he stated. In addition to the fatalities of this recent event and the more than 100 persons who died in the state’s approximately 47 building collapses between 2019 and the present, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has failed all Lagosians.
“The governor’s guilt was established by his failure to ensure due diligence on the governance process by engaging qualified employees. Instead of using his commissioner as a scapegoat as was planned, the governor ought to have resigned himself. He has made a lot of empty pledges to stop these catastrophes and the ensuing preventable fatalities.
He showed insensitivity and a contempt for human life by attending a social gathering in the distant United States to deliver an award while the victims’ blood was still warm.
The All Progressives Congress’s Lagos State chapter’s spokesman, Mr. Seye Oladejo, responded by calling Jandor’s call “childish” in a statement made available to The PUNCH on Wednesday.
The Lagos State government, he continued, “has not shied away from looking into the circumstances behind such instances and using the big stick when appropriate. We are still dedicated to completely sanitizing the sector, even though there may still be a few bad apples that try to get around the system.
“The PDP’s celebration of the atrocity and dancing on the graves of the victims in the name of politics is unacceptable, nasty, and uncivilized. The Lagos State government is still steadfastly dedicated to safeguarding the lives and property of every Lagosian. We shall continue to make every effort to uphold all laws and regulations while serving as the governing body for all types of building.
“To put it plainly, it is in poor taste to demand the governor’s resignation in such a juvenile manner. It reflects the opposition’s palpable anxiety of an impending, defining defeat in the next elections. Even by the poor standards of the PDP, the reference to Mr. Governor’s trip is childish and silly. Kadri Obafemi Hamzat, the deputy governor, was there. Other senior officials made sure the search-and-rescue effort continued without interruption, as well.
Vincent Paul
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