Funke Akindele, who is running for deputy governor of Lagos for the PDP, says she got into politics to help fix the city. She says that in the 23 years since Bola Tinubu and other governors took over the state in 1999, she has nothing to show for it.
Ms. Akindele promised that if the PDP won the election in 2023, women would be respected and the people would have access to health care, education, transportation, and other services.
She said, “We don’t want to raise illiterate people, and we want our kids to be better than us.” “The current party has been in charge for 23 years, and we have nothing to show for it. Our hospitals aren’t well-equipped, our roads are terrible, and floods are causing a lot of damage in our towns.”
Ms. Akindele told people in the Eleko Community in Ibeju-Lekki, where she is working with them on a local level, that she joined the race to save the state from “bad governance.”
“No one is happy about what’s going on in Lagos State right now. If people don’t figure out what to do, she said, “things will soon get very bad.”
The famous actress also said, “This is why I joined the PDP candidate for governor in the state, Dr. Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, aka Jandor, so that we can fix the state.”
She said that the PDP candidate for governor came from a poor family and used to wear torn uniforms, so he knew what it was like to be an average person.
“They (the APC-led government) banned Okada (commercial motorcycles) without thinking about how people would get around. Instead of making all kinds of tickets, they should make rules about what you can do.
“We will keep track of what you do and set up the right structures. After training them, we will give them more power. We’ll help widows by giving them loans and giving them more power. She asked, “What are we doing for our dads, too?”
Olusola Eruobodo, who used to be the chairman of the party in the area, said at the event that people in the area were ready to vote for any PDP candidate.
He said that the village hadn’t had electricity for more than 12 years.
Mr. Eruobodo said, “We want a government that will take care of us.”
(NAN)