Lagos LG polls: PDP has no place here- Tinubu

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Lagos LG polls: PDP has no place here- Tinubu

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National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sen. Bola Tinubu, has recently said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would record no win in the forthcoming council polls in Lagos State.The former governor made this statement while addressing hundreds of party ”˜faithfuls’ at the Lagos State APC Stakeholders’ meeting held at the Ikeja party secretariat.Reports have it that the stakeholders’ forum was in preparation for the July 22 council polls.The party chieftain was said to have regretted the loss of some seats to the PDP in the 2015 general elections and vowed it would not happen again.“2015 election was the greatest battle of our time. In the last election, we lost more than three LGAs to our opponents, which is very unusual.“We have asked our leaders in those local governments to examine what went wrong and work together to chart a new course to ensure the APC wins back those councils.The national leader commended party loyalists for their support to Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration, saying that the governor had proven his worth.“We are grateful to you the people for your great support during the 2015 election. We have continued to hold Lagos in spite of strong opposition.“Gov. Ambode has not let us down; he is doing a fantastic job in an environment where we have the economic challenges. He is doing it and he is doing very very well.“He has a very good team. He is doing a great job and we are very proud of that,” he said.Tinubu urged party leaders at the grassroots to shun bribery and favouritism, adding that quality leadership and merit should be upheld.“Our leaders should be fair to the people at the grassroots; we cannot please all, but we can satisfy the majority. This politics is give and take, compromise.’’“To appease some people, we asked the government to allow the Executive Secretaries to take over after the tenure of last council chairmen expired, instead of civil servants.“That was why executive secretaries were chosen to pave way for politicians.“When the term expired, we used sole administrators, but before we used them, we warned them that `when the elective position comes, you are not entitled to contest’.“We agreed that time, we cannot change it overnight; executive secretaries, however can contest,” Tinubu had said.Hundreds of party faithful and leaders across the 20 local government areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas were present at the meeting.  

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