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Makinde’s model: Lagos needs PDP to restore hope, transparency, Ex- Reps member

Hon Orji

…Frowns at ballots snatching, thuggery of APC in Lagos

By Ezurike Ugochukwu

Positive change and accelerated development needed in Lagos can only be achieved if thurgrery, ballot snatching are shunned in Lagos to allow the People’s Democratic Party through the people’s mandate come into power in the state.

Honourable Rita Orji, lawmaker that represented Ajeromi/Ifelodun federal constituency at the eighth Assembly has emphasised this, however expressed optimism that PDP will win Lagos State in 2023 general elections and usher in real development embided on accountability as seen in Oyo State under Governor Seyi Makinde

Hon Orji in her days as active member of the House of Representatives

Orji, a grassroot politic while answering questions from Journalists’ in Lagos stated that the state’s residents have been yearning for positive change not the kind of deception that the All Progressives Congress (APC) promised the citizens without delivering any of them, rather Nigerians and Lagosians have been wallowing in poverty, hardship and frustration since the ruling party took over governance.

“Lagosians have been yearning for PDP to take over power. The fact remains that we have not been losing elections in Lagos State as a party but we have issues of thugs, hijack of electoral materials, ballot boxes, etcetera by the ruling party and now that we have a hard working governor in the South-West like Seyi Makinde, we will replicate what is happening in Oyo State in Lagos State.

“PDP will restore hope for Lagosians if given the opportunity and I am sure they will. What the people got from the APC is worse than a nightmare. Unfortunately, some people ganged up in 2015, used the media to remove PDP but today the APC has given Nigerians, poverty, hardship, bloodshed and hunger.

Orji maintained that the people have seen the extent to which PDP can provide good leadership judging by the action of the only PDP governor in the South-West.

“Go and see what is happening in Oyo, and that state is managed by a PDP governor. I call that state the Dubai of Africa and today some of those who promoted APC to take over power are begging Nigerians for forgiveness because they sold a bad product to the people.

“Today our roads are bad, insecurity is all over the place and Nigerians are complaining. We are coming back in 2023 to restore peace,” she said.