The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos, Abdul-Azeez Olajide Adediran, otherwise known as Jandor, lacks the experience and competence to govern the state.
Fashola, who governed Lagos between 2007 and 2015, gave the jibe at the launch of his 10,000 ‘Eko O Ni Baje’ footsoldiers to conduct grassroots mobilization for Tinubu/Shettima and Sanwoolu/Hamzat.
According to him, Jandor, who has struggled to point at any meaningful public service experience, must first enrol in the Lagos Progressive Leadership School to ready and prepare himself for the important task of governing the commercially successful city-state.
Noting how his own experience as Chief of Staff to Tinubu whilst the latter governed Lagos, he criticized Jandor’s media experience, in which he largely served as a camera attache before assuming reportorial duties, as grossly inadequate.
“I did that job for eight years and part of what helped me was that I was COS to the governor. I saw it up close but even then it wasn’t enough. So just following a governor, being a cameraman and then watching me for eight years, you think you will now be a governor? You are not ready,” he said.
“Come to our leadership school, you are not yet ready. And that’s why you will see in their adverts that they are focusing on the 51 billion naira that Lagos is generating. They only see money, they don’t see people and responsibilities.”