Governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos
State, Mr Jimi Agbaje, has promised to cancel the controversial Lekki-Epe toll,
if elected into office.
He hinged this on the fact that the toll-gate was untenable as it was
standing on an existing road.
Agbaje, however, disclosed that the Lekki Phase 1 inner bridge would
remain, in view of it having been started from scratch by the concessionaire
company.
According to the directorate of media and publicity of his campaign, the
governorship candidate, who was accompanied by his running mate, Alhaja Safurat
Abdulkareem, disclosed this on Wednesday, during an interactive session with
the Muslim community in the state.
Agbaje, who commended Governor Babatunde Fashola for some of the
successes recorded in the state, however, said Lagos was in urgent need of
change and not continuity.
He hinged this on the fact that most of the problems afflicting the
state were products of what he referred to as “vested interest.”
The PDP governorship hopeful noted that these successes were, however,
not being felt by ordinary Lagosians, whom he said were totally alienated from
governance.
Agbaje assured his Muslim hosts, who included the national missioner of
the Ansar-ud-Deen Society of Nigeria, Sheik Abdurahman Ahmad, that the problem
of allowing Muslim children to wear the hijab veil to school would be solved
through a synergy between the state and the mosque
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