Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday took a swipe at the 16-year presidency of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between 1999 and 2015, saying the state benefited nothing from the party’s reign.
Governor Ambode said this while addressing the National Consultative Forum of the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups in Abuja.
The group coordinates all other groups campaigning for President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election.
Ambode said that within three and half years from 2015 till date, the All Progressives Congress (APC) had been able to lay a solid foundation for Nigeria’s economic growth and prosperity, and that President Buhari’s re-election would take the country to the next level.
“Sixteen years of PDP, I can say it clearly that Lagos State never enjoyed anything from them. Three and half years of APC, I can clearly attest here that whatever it is that we have achieved in Lagos in the last three and half years, the present Federal Government has largely contributed to the things that we have achieved be it in terms of right of way.
“Be it in terms of approval for waivers for import duties and other things that have actually made Lagos to be on the progressive trajectory that it had been in the last twenty years.
“So, for me it is very easy and it is just common sense that we have to uphold the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket to allow that economic progress and the growth in the GDP that we want for Nigeria rather than allowing it to get dismantled and then make us to go back to Egypt after crossing the Red Sea and we are not going back to Egypt,” Ambode said.
