Why Ambode Did Not Get Our 2nd Term Ticket – APC

All Progressive Congress (APC) chairman in Lagos State, Alhaji Tunde Balogun has broken down why his party did not give ex-Governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode a 2nd term ticket.

According to him, going by the achievements experienced during Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola’s governments, Lagos State has always worked with a ten-point agenda for development, but Akinwunmi Ambode did not continue from where past governors stopped.

Tunde Balogun said some of the points on the agenda were transportation, health, education, environment and security, but Ambode abandoned most of them.

His words, “When he (Tinubu) was there, he did a lot in the area of transportation, health, and the environment before he left office after eight years. Babatunde Fashola took over and followed the same programme to the letter and you found development all over the place.

When Fashola sought re-election, he won with a very large margin because of his performance. When Ambode took over, at the beginning he was adhering to the programme of the party but after some time, he deviated. That singular mistake cost him his second term.”

“In the areas of roads, there were potholes and the major road projects embarked upon by Fashola were abandoned. These were not part of our dreams and vision for Lagos. We plan to have very good management of wastes and complete projects. We did not plan to have abandoned projects and potholes everywhere… that was what cost him the second term that he wanted.

“Some of the projects Fashola embarked on were the railway and the express road from Mile 2 to Badagry. He (Ambode) abandoned them. We also had conspicuous housing projects, one in Ilubirin that he abandoned while the waste management system was run aground. As a party, we have to be responsive to what the people want otherwise we would become a failure”.