April 4, 2015 – Lagos State Governor Mr. Babatunde Fashola has said that Nigerians will soon start enjoying benefits of projects that seemed impossible to deliver when the President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari takes over leadership of the country.
Fashola who was speaking at a rally in Lagos said Nigeria is going to experience rapid transformation and development when APC led government takes over from the present Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government.
“Provision of Electricity is not a rocket science. It is possible and APC government will make it possible. General Muhammadu Buhari will switch on electricity across the country. What that means is saving money that people use to provide electricity for themselves. At least Artisans will save N1,500 everyday if they have the problem of electricity solved.”
The governor urged the teeming supporters to vote APC candidates in the forthcoming Governorship and State House of Assembly polls.
Fashola said the candidates vying for governorship and deputy Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode and Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule have experience about governance having worked as Accountant General and Secretary to the Lagos State Government respectively.
He repudiated the insinuation that the APC Governorship Candidate was dismissed from the State’s Civil Service, describing it as one of the many lies of the ruling party aimed at deceiving voters into voting for them.
Fashola explained that Mr. Akin Ambode retired voluntarily from the Public Service after 27 years of meritorious service to the State adding that he wrote him a letter of commendation.
The governor urged the civil servants to ignore the Governorship candidate of the PDP in the State, Mr. Jimi Agbaje who has placed posters in the environs of the State Secretariat, Alausa, promising to implement the National Minimum Wage and pay leave allowances to the Public Servants if voted in as Governor of the State.
Corroborating the governor on the brewing issue of minimum wage payment, the Special Adviser on Media to the Governor, Mr. Hakeem Bello, explained that the administration of Mr Babatunde Fashola was not only the first to implement the Minimum Wage structure but also added to the N18,000 Minimum Wage across board, a gesture for which the Public Servants commended the administration.
On the issue of Leave Allowance, Bello said the Governor recently met with the Public Servants during which he explained that his administration did not stop paying leave allowances but that the system of annual payment of the allowance changed when the Public Servants themselves requested that they be moved from Harmonized Salary Structure to Consolidated Salary Structure as obtains in the Federal Civil Service.
