Being Tinubu’s Puppet, A Compliment, Sanwo-Olu Tells Agbaje

Samson Folarin

The war of words between the Lagos governorship
candidates of the All Progressives Congress, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the
Peoples Democratic Party, Jimi Agbaje, continued on Friday, as the APC
flag bearer promised to retire his rival after the March 2 election.

Sanwo-Olu
said he was proud of being called a puppet of the national leader of
the party, Bola Tinubu, adding that it meant he had mastered the art and
science of governance.

He spoke while reacting to a statement by Agbaje, in which the latter described him as a puppet.

The
APC candidate, in a statement by his media team, said he sympathised
with Agbaje over the “imminent disgraceful defeat awaiting him at the
March 2 poll, and consequent retirement from four years electoral cycle
contest.”

“Sanwo-Olu described Agbaje’s recent vituperation,
where he described him as a puppet to the national leader of the APC,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as a not only complimentary, but an affirmation of
the notion that he is the most experienced for the job, having been
properly schooled in the art and science of governance.

“He
further reminded Mr Agbaje and his co-travellers in the journey of
political ignominy of an incontrovertible fact that he (Mr Sanwo-Olu)
has been part of the progressive social, economic and political
trajectory of modern Lagos, which started with Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and
was passed on to the actualiser, Mr Babatunde Fashola, who in turn
handed over to the incumbent governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, for
consolidation.

“Mr Sanwo-Olu’s private and public experience is
not what the likes of Jimi Agbaje could buy over a supermarket shelf,
and would take them at least two decades of quality experience to place
them on the same pedestal like him,” the statement said.

The
statement berated Agbaje for promising to spend 50 per cent of the
state’s budget on education, saying he was a learner for leaving out
several critical areas of daily existence.

Source:- Punchng