The Lagos state governor
fashola, who made the statement while addressing the crowd at the APC campaign
rally held in Epe Local Government, said that revealing the facts on land use
charge debt of JayKay pharmacy was not for personal reasons but for the development
of the state.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday challenged the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the owner of Jaykay Pharmacy, to publish receipts showing that he had paid N1.6 million land use charge debt.
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday challenged the People’s Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, the owner of Jaykay Pharmacy, to publish receipts showing that he had paid N1.6 million land use charge debt.
According to him, “It is
not that I hate him (Agbaje). But this is not a personal issue. This is an
issue that concerns the development of Lagos State. I am saying this without
mincing words. His pharmacy has not paid land Use Charge for year 2009, 2010,
2011 and 2012; it amounts to N1, 629, 064.62. But they have paid for 2013 and
2014.”
This came 24 hours after
Agbaje accused the governor of distorting the fact, saying “I have even been
commended for paying my Land Use Charge on time. “I didn’t say you did not pay
two years Land Use Charge, LUC you did. But you have four years unpaid LUC. If
you have paid all your LUC, please publish your receipt.” Agbaje condemns
Fashola, APC’s attacks on him Meantime Agbaje yesterday decried the constant
attacks on his personality by the All Progressives Congress-led government.
Agbaje, said while addressing a rally organised for Amuwo Odofin and Apapa
local government areas, also said that rather than resort to mudslinging, the
APC should focus on issue based politics.
Addressing the supporters,
Agbaje decried the campaign of calumny against him orchestrated by the APC and
the Lagos State governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola. He described the governor’s
allegation of tax evasion as false and a campaign of calumny based on fear of losing
to the PDP. He said: “The more mud they throw at me, the cleaner I come out as
you all know.
The governor in one of the
APC rallies had said that I am too old to govern the state whereas we are all
in our 50s and I look younger than them. At another forum, he said I do not
have experience to be a governor and I begin to wonder there where he got his
own experience as governor before governing Lagos. I want you to know that
governance is not about experience but qualification.”
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