Lagos PDP tasks Fashola on ACN's forces

Opeyemi Adesina

The Lagos State People Democratic Party (PDP) has advised Governor Babatunde Fashola to admit failure in governance and do the needful by confessing to lagosians the actual Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) forces and pressures that have made governance difficult for him so much so that virtually all sectors of the Government has embarked on protracted Strikes in the 5 years Old of his Administration.

This spiritual advise should be heeded within 14 days to avoid the imminent insurrection against his administration.

The advise is coming on the heels of the ongoing teacher's strike which has now paralysed Secondary and Primary schools education in the State.

A statement made available to our Lagos Correspondent and signed by its Publicity Secretary, Barr. Taofik Gani, on behalf of the state chairman, Tunji Shelle, the party opines that the situation now is very unimaginable and demands that Governor Fashola should speak out on his constraints in Government.

"Honestly, the situation in Lagos State baffles us. The State has no excuse to neglect the Teachers. The demand of the Teachers for 27.5% salary increment is modest especially as atleast Seventeen other States in the Country have been paying same.

The party posited that Lagos State is so wealthy but the ACN led government is not prudent, proactive and conversant with the immediate needs of the people, thus squandering the state's resources on white elephant projects that do not have any direct impact on the people. A state that has collected over 17Trillion Naira from the Federal Government; realises atleast 48Billion Naira monthly as IGR should be solvent enough to pay its workers" The party holds that the education sector in the State has collapsed. " Our schools system has collapsed. It is either the tertiary institution is too expensive to access or the junior schools are shut.

The party added that: "This calls for concern and the ACN must admit this failure. We counsel thus: That the SURE-P allocation to the State be immediately deployed to pay the Teachers and also subsidise the LASU school fees; That the Government must stop wastage like the distracting Eko Atlantic City Project; That the Government must stop extortionate tax system in order to motivate cooperate bodies resume their supports to public schools; That the Government should give scholarship to at least two children of teachers in the State.

The Party has however appealed to the striking teachers to be keen on amicable settlement in the interest of the innocent teenage Students.