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The Lagos governorship candidate of the Action Democratic Party, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has said he can appoint an Igbo man to his cabinet if he emerges the governor of Lagos State.
He stated that Lagos needs the best hands irrespective of tribal affiliations.
Gbadamosi who is also a real estate developer, made this known during an interview on Channels Tv ‘Politics Today’.
The ADP governorship candidate said:” I won’t lie to you and say I don’t see the bullion vans being deployed as a challenge. We had Asiwaju speak and saying igbos should vote for the APC or face the consequence.
There is a lot of chatter going on social media that a lot of Igbos were prevented from going about their business which is very ‘unLagosian ‘like. Lagos is home to all. Lagos is Lagos because we are very hospitable people. Real Lagosians know that the prosperity of the state relies on people’s abilities to do business.
“Lagos belongs to people like me, I am an indigene of Lagos. I can appoint an Igbo man to my cabinet If he qualifies. We need the best hands; Lagos is a cosmopolitan city just like New York. If you are going to run a world class city, you need world class hands.If the best hands I find for the transport sector is an Igbo person or an Edo person, then that will be the person I will appoint”.
When asked what his plans are for the civil servants in Lagos, he said his government will review wages to bring them in line with economic realities.
“We are going to review wages to bring them in line with our economic realities. We would price people’s time appropriately and pay people wages commensurate to the responsibilities given to them”.
Gbadamosi also lamented over the violence perpetrated in some parts of Lagos during the presidential and national assembly elections.
“I knew it won’t be easy to pry Lagos from the fingers of those who are feeding fat on our taxes. I knew what to expect and expect that it’s going to be really tough. A new dimension has been added to it now with the deployment of bullion vans and thugs; we saw a few examples of a very widespread pattern of violence and a few disruptions of elections in areas where the APC were clearly going to lose”