Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has revealed
that 2,123 policemen provided security for President
Goodluck Jonathan while armed robbers raided a bank in
Lekki, Lagos last week.
Fashola, who spoke at the Agricultural Food Value Chain
held in Agege area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria on Tuesday
said when the president came to Lagos last Thursday, while
citizens were being robbed, the president was protected by
2, 123 security personnel.
“Let me be very clear, the president is entitled to every
protection, he’s our president, but the question to ask is
that; when you were being traumatised yesterday, where
were these 2,123 men?
Because you are also entitled to be protected. The reason
why the president gets all that protection is so that he can
protect all of us,” he said.
The governor also decried Monday’s protest march for
Jonathan in Lagos by members of the Oodua Peoples
Congress, OPC and other pro-Jonathan groups in which the
protesters terrorised Lagosians while brandishing
dangerous weapons.
“Yesterday, they also showed the difference between us
when the supporters of the PDP and President Jonathan
came out. You know on 7th of March this year, just about a
week ago, the APC held a solidarity rally in Lagos. Did
anybody attack you on that day? So, yesterday, they held
their own, but what I heard, because I received telephone
calls and text messages from residents who explained to
me, I received emails.
“I am sorry for the pain and trauma they put you through
because residents continuously complained yesterday that
they were traumatised by those people who supposedly
were carrying out a rally in support of the president and in
support of their gubernatorial candidate, just kidding.
“So instead of canvassing for your votes and showing you
why their service record is better, they were showing you
knives, cutlass and dangerous weapons. Some residents
phoned to say that they were banging on their cars. Let me
remind all of us, that the work of a party and a government
is to protect citizens and not to terrorize them,” he stated.
Fashola said for those who still said that they did not know
what the issues in these elections were, Monday’s event
brought one issue sharply in focus, which he said was the
issue of security.
He stated that the peace and safety that “all of you have
enjoyed for eight years is now at risk. You have seen the
kind of people who support the other party on Monday, you
have seen the kind of people who support their presidential
and gubernatorial candidate, those are the people that you
will see around them. Monday’s experience, may God
forbid it, would be what you would experience till 2019.
“Unless you come out massively on March 28 and on April
11, that is the only way that God would forbid that kind of
thing from continuing in Lagos. It is your vote that would
change it. A vote for General Buhari would put to end this
kind of abuse of state power. A vote for Ambode will
continue the security that we have built and protected you
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