By Olusesan Daini,

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”- Martin Luther king Jr.

Being sincerely disposed to error is excusable, but activating ignorance and making deliberate attempt to walk a population of 26 million people into the proponent’s political frenzy will not be accepted in Lagos state of today.

Perhaps, the Jimi Agbaje, Lagos People Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Candidate, recent utterance in public and inscriptions on campaign banners, that Lagosians needed freedom, at a time when Lagos is been unanimously considered the dominant and major contributor to Nigerian economy, goes against Oxford Dictionary, which defines freedom as a state of having free will; the power or right to act, speak or think freely.

Could it be that the governorship candidate has separate meaning contrary to world accepted definition of freedom such that gave him the right to portray Lagosians, the 21st century citizens and indigenes, as having deficiency of free will and lacking the power or right to act, speak or even think freely, the position of which obviously indicated how Mr Agbaje thinks about average Lagosian – a person with no right whatsoever.

Moving away from core issues and riding on emotional chagrin, Mr Agbaje goofed to have portrayed Lagosians as lacking political and democratic freedom. First, it must be noted that democracy is a game of number anywhere in the world. At a point in this country, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) was the ruling party by majority decision of Nigerians; today, it is the All Progressives Congress. Also, states have been won and lost by both parties as reflection of the freedom Nigerians enjoy to make choices in the political space. Lagos is not different. One Permanent Voters’ Card is equal to one vote, and that Lagosians have continuously preferred the APC government based on conviction on the party’s ability to deliver good governance does not translate to lack of freedom whatsoever.

In APC’s Lagos State that gives no political and democratic freedom to Lagosians in the context of Mr Agbaje’s definition of freedom, six federal constituencies and six state constituencies were won by the PDP candidates in the 2015 general election. Three out of these 12 seats are currently being occupied by Lagosians of Igbo descent. The longest serving Publicity Secretary of the party and longest serving Commissioner of Finance are both of non-Yoruba ethnic origin.

Mr Agbaje’s attempt to launder his political deficit on the threshold of freedom fighting is not a goal! Also, claiming to wash Lagos financial mess under the APC is like wearing a fragrance to perfume shop to impress the owner. On two occasions that Mr Agbaje has contested to become Governor of Lagos State, his main financials were host of popular names on the looters’ directory who were members of the PDP and have participated in mindless looting of our national treasury.

The reign of PDP saw needless blockade of developmental strives such as independent power plan project, creation of additional 37 Local Governments, repair of Federal Government Roads under concessional plans, harmonisation of State traffic enforcement agency to provide assistance to Federal Government’s on federal roads within Lagos and lots more. All these anti-development policies were firmly supported by Agbaje in his several utterances on the matters. In fact, he supported the freezing of Lagos State allocations from federation account for three years during Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.

At a point, Agbaje, the proponent of mischievous freedom agenda, threatened Lagosians and the entire Yoruba race that Nigeria would explode should PDP lose Lagos State and Presidency in the 2015 general election. According to him, “Niger Delta militants would unleash terror”, which indeed came to pass before they were curbed at the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government in 2015.

http://www.theguildng.com/jimi-agbaje-and-freedom-misconception/

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It is hypocrisy to sponsor the liberation of Kwara from Saraki's grip and lampoon Agbaje for attempting to set lagosians free from the 'biggest landlord' in Lagos.

With the resources available to the Lagos State Government, that state should have been very far from where it is now ditto for Rivers, Bayelsa and other oil producing states.

Agbaje is not a serious candidate. He disappeared for 4 years and suddenly reappeared again without any concrete solutions to Lagosian's problems except bigotry and ethnic division.

As they say about him... customer daada ni.

Happiness is when u thought you've eaten the last akara, but u touched the nylon and feel one...

OP...
Getting 10% of revenues of Lagos 'just like that' doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Imposing governors on the people doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Controlling politicians in an entire region doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Psychologically and politically manipulating the minds and hearts of people in an entire region doesn't sound like freedom to me.

Op, it is you who needs a clear definition on what freedom is.
Lagos state needs freedom.

Jimi Agbaje should go grass root campaign

Stop all this online ranting joor

Cos Sanwoolu has gone far pass u

K

Op just dey blow yeye grama. Simple thing be say Lagosians needs freedom from Baba Lagos Landlord

Its not really about PDP , but personality now
Tinubus grip on Lagos strongholds will definitely crumble sooner or later.
You can take that to the bank
How can you build a toll gate with tax payers money and still tax same to use ?
Radarada.
Freedom indeed
Oluremi is going to the senate in opposed , is that freedom to you ?
Someone said something is fundamentally wrong w the black man
I agree!

Jimi should free himself from the strongman of Lagos PDP first before coming to free Lagosians

These people have a way of defending servitude.

What is black and white in other places is grey in yorubaland.

Wetin concern me?

Oyinbo man say 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Lagos is outperforming all other states in Nigeria by far, economically and infrastructurally. No point changing a winning team. Jimi should find another slogan because he is dangerously clueless and will likely r.e.tard the progress of the state because he lacks experience in the administration of such an important entity as Lagos.

Agbaje is more confused than his confused party

Ok


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Lagosians have continuously preferred the APC government based on conviction on the party’s ability to deliver good governance does not translate to lack of freedom whatsoever.

The Lagos APC did the right thing in denying Ambode a second term ticket.

Ambode per Lagos standards failed

Tinubu actually wanted Ambode to continue,, but his foot soldiers were the ones who rejected the incumbent.

So the misconception here is that Ambode fell out of favour with his godfather that's why his godfather didn't want his return. False!

You are either free or in bondage.

But it would seem some are comfortable in their chains...

What you frown at against Okorocha, you condone with Tinubu.

All I see are paid hacks to launder the image of a man that has mortgaged their future.

FREEDOM

"1The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants." (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/freedom).


It is pellucid enough that the writer is either unschooled in the diverse applicability and relativeness of the term, "Freedom", or he is just blinded by uncritical prejudices...

Jimi did not have to tell you that Lagos needs freedom from a ONE MAN RULE before you know.

We do not have to go through a protracted tutorial program to be abreast of the very glaring state of aggressive and unhealthy godfatherism that has plagued Lagos these past years.

What about the dirty politics played by impeding the opposition campaign adverts and infringing on their rights to a fair hearing. Not to talk of the unquestioned public display of lack of sportsmanship by the dirty tirades spewed openly by the so called party leader.

The recent Tinubu/Ambodee brouhaha is enough pointer to how Lagosians have only availed themselves as pawns in one man's chess board....

Lagosians, apparently, do not have a word of themselves...

It is a play on the average man's intelligence to claim Lagos is free.

It is denying the bare faced.

Jimi Agbaje thinks Lagos needs freedom. No! Lagos is free. What Lagos needs is strong and vibrant opposition, Jimi has failed in being and doing that over and over again. The decision not to vote in Jimi Agbaje in 2015 election was an expression of a Free Lagos and that will be repeated come 2019.

LibertyRep:
It is hypocrisy to sponsor the liberation of Kwara from Saraki's grip and lampoon Agbaje for attempting to set lagosians free from the 'biggest landlord' in Lagos.

With the resources available to the Lagos State Government, that state should have been very far from where it is now ditto for Rivers, Bayelsa and other oil producing states.

You're right, that's why Ambode had to be denied a second tenure. The man has taken us back to pre-Fashola era in terms of waste management and traffic.

At a point, Agbaje, the proponent of mischievous freedom agenda, threatened Lagosians and the entire Yoruba race that Nigeria would explode should PDP lose Lagos State and Presidency in the 2015 general election. According to him, “Niger Delta militants would unleash terror”, which indeed came to pass before they were curbed at the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari’s government in 2015.



Is this true? If it is, then investigation must commence (or be continued) on this issue, to find out who the sponsors of those Niger Delta terrorists were.

Sirheny007:
OP...
Getting 10% of revenues of Lagos 'just like that' doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Imposing governors on the people doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Controlling politicians in an entire region doesn't sound like freedom to me.
Psychologically and politically manipulating the minds and hearts of people in an entire region doesn't sound like freedom to me.

Op, it is you who needs a clear definition on what freedom is.
Lagos state needs freedom.

Funny enough, Tinubu has not in any point in time put gun on the head of anyone to vote for his preferred candidate. But his followers will gladly do his will because he has proven times without numbers that he can identify performers.

Someone who gave Lagos Fashola, if he says it's Sanwo-olu this time around, people will definitely trust his judgment.

If you are tied to the apron strings of Bode George, someone who was jailed for corruption, then you can't be talking of freeing Lagos from another man. He should free himself of Bode George first. The same cards he played in 2015 that didn't work for him. That guy needs to pay good money for a very good strategist.

See dem, suffering and smiling.

So people spending 4 hours on the road just to go from V.I to Festac should laud the current state of affairs in Lagos, ba?

Lagos badagry road

People will just be suffering, drinking lacasera and munching on stale gala in traffic and be smiling later, sigh

Mr Jimi your campaign ...train. Is not sound... Even. Last election you did not go round Lagos State