...Holds Interactive Session With Community Media Practitioners in Lagos
...Promises To Pay N100k as Minimum Wage
AgegePulse Magazine
The governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Babatunde Gbadamosi, popularly called BOG has proffered what he called "practicable solutions" to many challenges facing Lagos and Lagosian.
Gbadamosi received a standing ovation after speaking eloquently at the just concluded Today's Community Newspaper Interactive Session for governorship aspirants and other politicians seeking elective posts in Lagos State.
Gbadamosi highlighted several challenges facing Lagosians while speaking to newsmen at the community media Parley in Ilupeju, Lagos. He went on to proffer feasible solutions to tackle them systematically.
BOG revealed that every Lagosian faces a lot and expends too much of money on travel time because of gridlocks across the state. He mentioned key areas where Lagosians spend their hard earned money ranging from high schools fees, poor power supply which leads to incurring other expenses such as fueling and other source of alternative power supply adding that if all of these are settled by government, life will be more easier for people.
GbadamosI assured that in his first hundred days in office if elected, he would try increasing the salaries of civil servants in the state, but he did not explain how he would raise the additional fund needed to do this.
He, however, bounced back from the initial flutter, arguing that his priority will be to immediately fixed the roads and boost the infrastructural shortfall of the state by building rail lines to all the exit points of the state, opening up water transportation and the movement of containers by barges instead of contesting the roads with trailers.
The ADP candidate, who berated the ruling party in the state for lack of prudence in running the state finances, said he would bring his experience from the private sector to handle the spending of state fund.
According to him, he would be able to do this because he does not have any godfather, which was a snide remark on the candidate of the ruling APC, Mr Sanwo-Olu, who enjoys the backing of a former governor of the state, Bola Tinubu, generally believed to be the de-facto political leader of the state.
Mr Gbadamosi pointed out that the state budget website no longer exists stating that the APC led government is known for being opaque rather than open. He said if elected into office, he would operate an open government.
He berated the current government for being unable to complete its light rail project in 10 years and wondered why the state was paying for it from its purse when it could have welcomed the private sector to finance the project. He also said at a cost of almost $1 billion, the light rail project was too expensive.
He said he would open up the state waterways and improve tourism as a means of growing the state's tax revenue if elected into office.
He hailed community media practitioners in the state as viable platforms through which government activities are spread to the grassroots. He promised to make community media major part of his government if elected.
President of the Association of Practioners of Community Media, APCOM in Lagos, Chief Dayo Akintobi during his vote of thanks, appreciated Mr. Babatunde Gbadamosi for honoring them as special guest at the Interactive Session which enables him to articulate his vision to Lagosians.
