National leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dismissed any form of threat to victory of his party in the ongoing Governorship/State Houses of Assembly elections, in Lagos.
Tinubu, who spoke to journalists after casting his vote at polling unit, 043, Sunday Adigun Street, Alausa, said the major opposition party, People’s Democratic Party (PDP) was no match to APC in Lagos, and therefore, posses no threat at all.
He said Lagos State since 1999 has been governed by progressive minds, adding that the state would continue to be administered by the progressives.
Tinubu also alluded to the financial strength of Lagos which, according to him, is a function of the ingenuity of the leaders since 1999.
“From N600 million monthly Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in 1999, the state today is generating over N30 billion monthly IGR. No state in Nigeria can boost of that. They all depend on federal allocations. Lagos is the state that is building infrastructure and tarring roads with its IGR. That’s what the progressives in the state have done,” said Tinubu.
The former governor, who ruled Lagos from 1999 to 2007, while answering question relating to the violence that rocked some polling units in Lagos, especially Okota, in the February 23 Presidential/Assembly elections, said though unfortunate, but was not enough to discredit the overall outcome of the elections or tagged Lagos a violent place.
On today’s Governorship and State Assembly elections, Tinubu, who described as orderly, reaffirmed his firm belief that APC would sweep the polls.
