Lagos APC governorship aspirant Jim-Kamal declares intent ahead primaries

• Draws five-point development plan

Otunba Olanrewaju Jim-Kamal one of the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship hopefuls, has rolled out a five-point program plan targeted at reshaping Lagos State.

Ahead of the party’s primaries Jim-Kamal officially declared his poise to jostle for the governorship seat on Saturday, while celebrating President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s reforms, which he claimed has brought about a lot of ease on the nation’s global appeal for investors.

The vibrant politician who formed the Dynamic Group in the late 80’s, Jim-Kamal as Chairman with Aruna Yusuf (Ilerika) as his vice could not hide their joy as indigenous Awori people, whose time has come to make more meaning, aided by long political history and grassroots grasp.

“Lagos started from where I was born, Awori’s own the land, but we have been marginalized.

“We have to be very diplomatic now that informs our resolve to jostle for the seat, as we control 16 out of the 20 local governments in Lagos.”

Jim-Kamal stated that he will be tackling issues of governance in Lagos through the homefront, the youths, women and more.

“Education must be automatedly free, every child must be in school, market mothers will get alleviation packages, the core of our program is the family.

“We are going to start from the home, we don’t want to see unemployed youths in Lagos, all we need is their data and they will receive minimum of 100,000 naira every month.

“We will ensure we fix the youths up employment wise, others that are in the civil service will enjoy upgrades that suits their needs.

“We will also ensure automated health-care especially for our mothers, all health centres will be upgraded to general hospitals, with well equipped medical facilities.

“Also for our mothers once you are 60 years old in Lagos you must be receiving 150,000 naira every month. I need the help of the youths to make it work.

“Roads is an area of our core competence, we will replicate what the federal government is doing with the Lagos-Calabar five lane coastal road, in Ikorodu, Imota, Badagry to Ceme to open up the hinterlands.

“I have foreign partners from abroad who brought in not less than 15bn dollars for the federal road projects, they have also promised to spend 50bn dollars on roads in Lagos.

“We will start from concentric zones in Lagos, which will be decongested by opening Badagry to Ceme border, encouraging you to leave the center and move in to the hinterlands.

“We will have rice plantation along the Badagry axis and in two years we will be eating our own rice in Lagos, also our human capital will be intensified.

“On insecurity we are going to police Lagos. How? All entrances and exits will have security gates”.

“It will be in our policy statement that will be repeated on our inauguration day by the grace of God.

According to the words of “Dynamic Group”, stakeholders Alhaji Kehinde Ogunleye and the event’s Chairman Planning Committee Alhaji Akeem Osho, Jim-Kamal is a competent aspirant who can turn Lagos State around for good.

“Let indigenes vie for the governorship position and it will benefit everyone, the time is now.”