Respect dynamics of Lagos, APC tells visiting public officials

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as needless and an unnecessary imposition of hardship on Lagosians by the practice of closing vital roads and critical arteries of the state, just because a public official is visiting the state.

The party issued this in view of the traumatic experiences Lagosians experienced last Friday when the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, visited the state for the purpose of delivering a lecture at the Island Club.

In a release in Lagos signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party advised public officials visiting Lagos for one reason or the other to be mindful of the dynamics of Lagos as the engine room of the Nigerian economy and refrain from disrupting the normal life of the state.

“We note that the penchant to lock down Lagos for a visiting public official has become so obsessive that Lagosians now dread the visiting of another official of the Presidency.

“It is well-known that whenever the President, his Vice, their wives and other carders of Federal Government officials are visiting Lagos, even for personal reasons, the state is locked down for hours and hapless citizens are always subjected to tortuous experiences on the roads.

“We wonder how this helps whatever missions these officials come to do in Lagos. We want to appeal to all to respect the dynamics of Lagos and the feelings of the people of Lagos who desire very minimal interference in the conduct of their daily businesses.

“This is the reason the Chief Executive of Lagos, His Excellency Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), moves round the state often without sirens and other panoply of state power,” the party stated.

Source: Dailyindependent