Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday took a swipe at the sixteen years presidency of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) between 1999 and 2015, saying the State benefited nothing from the party’s reign.
Speaking at the National Consultative Forum of the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups, a coordinating body of all the groups campaigning for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo in 2019, held at Nicon Luxury in Abuja,
Governor Ambode said the country would not go back to Egypt by bringing PDP back to power having crossed the Red Sea. He said just 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, adding that the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket remains the best option to take the country to the next level from 2019.Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (right); Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode (left) and APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu during a National Consultative Forum organised by the National Committee of Buhari Support Groups (NCBSG) with the theme: Nigeria, On the Right Track, at the NICON Luxury, Abuja, on Tuesday, December 4, 2018.
“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.