Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola
explained the difference between All Progressives
Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP).
Fashola who is a member of APC made the
comments yesterday, Februrary 2nd 2015,
during a meeting between members of the APC
and the organized private sector in Marina Lagos.
Read Fashola statement below:
“The manifesto of the APC is designed to address
2015 problems going on to 2019 while PDP has is
a 1999 manifesto and that probably explains the
disconnect between our realities and the realities
that you hear. The transformation that has been
put forth has headed south not west,”
“The Naira has weakened, interest rates has come
up and it is for us to chose whether we want four
more years of that and the Naira is essential in a
free fall in an economy that is currently import
denominated and it would only mean that the
purchasing power of our disposable income would
continue to reduce,”
“The necessity of now is to halt that free fall. That
is something we cannot vote continuity on. I will
not. But more importantly as the candidate, Gen
Buhari, has said, it is essentially not how much
really Nigeria earns, it is what value we get out of
that money,”
“If we had sold crude oil, our major income
earner for like almost 5-6 years at over a $100 per
barrel and all of us are saying there is pain, do we
want to continue now when there is reduced
income with the same team on the same
management capacity. If they couldn’t do
topnotch at $100 per barrel, can we trust them
to do more with less?”
