The Year 2014 edition of the Lagos State Annual Community Day Celebration held on Thursday at the Police College Grounds, Ikeja with the State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola, SAN, urging eligible voters in the State to vote for the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015 to guarantee continued good governance in the State.
At the celebration ceremony were thousands of community representatives, including Community Development Associations, members of the Neighborhood Watch, Traditional Rulers and other stakeholders.
Addressing the gathering, Governor Fashola cautioned the people to be vigilant and wary of those who would make unrealistic promises, emphasising that the best way to assess all the promises was to check the antecedents of those who make them.
Governor Fashola, who claimed that he had kept all the promises he made from inception as contained in his inauguration speech in 2007, pointed out that the promises had been kept on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which, according to him, is “a party for whom progressiveness is about the people”.
The Governor told the cheering audience, that the administration had been busy in the last few days handing over community projects, such as water projects, schools, town halls, roads and agricultural projects across the State. He said that the purpose was simply to connect the various communities.
The Governor slammed the Federal Government for its inability to provide the basic infrastructure and utilities for the people of Nigeria in spite of its lion share of 52 per cent from the Federation Account, stressing that it had failed to provide electricity despite the promises it made to the people as the basis for taking the mantle of leadership four years ago.
He also reiterated the importance of the Permanent Voters Card (PVC) and urged those who registered at the last election in the 11 local governments where INEC is currently distributing the cards to go and collect their PVC in their local government office.
