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The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor, has called for the resignation of the Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, over the spate of building collapse in the state since 2019.
This followed the collapse of a seven-storey building at Oniru Estate, Victoria Island, on Sunday, which led to the death of no fewer than six persons.
Adediran, in a statement signed by his media aide, Gbenga Ogunleye, on Wednesday, added that the Lagos State Governor had made many unfulfilled promises to prevent these disasters and the attendant avoidable deaths.
He said, “It is not enough that the government official assigned to the Ministry concerned, the Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, resigned. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has failed the entire Lagosians, not only the victims of this current incident and the over 100 people who died in about 47 cases of building collapse between 2019 to date in the state.
“The governor’s failure to ensure due diligence on the governance process by engagement of competent personnel established his culpability. It is expected that the governor himself should have resigned instead of the arranged scapegoating of asking his commissioner to quit. He has made many unfulfilled promises to prevent these disasters and the attendant avoidable deaths…
