The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP in Lagos, Mr Jimi Agbaje has slammed the governor of Lagos State, Mr Babatunde and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for saying he is too old to rule Lagos.
Fashola and Tinubu had on Wednesday at the flagoff of the governorship campaign of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Akin Ambode asked LAgosians not to vote for Agbaje because age was not longer on his side.
The campaign team of Mr. Jimi Agbaje, Governorship Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos, has taken Governor Babatunde Fashola to the cleaners for dismissing the politician as “too old” to be Governor.
The PDP Candidate, in a statement issued his Director of Media and Publicity, Felix Oboagina described the comment as spiteful, hypocritical and a contradiction in terms.
Agbaje wondered how a party which fielded a 73 year old retired General as presidential candidate will be accusing an agile 57 year old man of being old to govern a state.
The statement read “This is pure and unprovoked attack,” Oboagwina said. “Instead of engaging in this degrading mudslinging, APC and its henchmen should embrace issues-based campaigning.
“It only shows that APC is bereft of creative ideas, so it should cede the administration of Lagos for fresh minds. Agbaje represents that fresh mind that Lagosians have been yearning for,” the statement said.
Agbaje was born on March 2, 1957 to a banker father, Chief Julius Kosebinu (the first Nigerian Director of a bank) and Mrs. Margaret Olabisi, a teacher.
The statement further referred to Section 177 of the Nigerian Constitution stipulated that: “A person shall be qualified for election to the office of Governor of a State if he is a citizen of Nigeria by birth; he has attained the age of thirty-five years; he is a member of a political party and is sponsored by that political party; and he has been educated up to at least School Certificate level or its equivalent.”
According to the statement, it was a pity that the APC chieftains failed to address the misgovernment of Lagos, characterized by poverty, unemployment, industry emigration, over-taxation and the deportation of non-indigenes.
