* Asks traders to resist intimidation
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Dr. Olajide Adediran aka Jandor, has berated the alleged order by the State government to shut down all major markets in for the All Progressives Congress (APC) the mega rally.
The presidential campaign is scheduled to hold today, Saturday, November 26, 2022 at Teslim Balogun stadium, Surulere.
Preparatory to the rally, the government had announced diversion of traffic in the metropolis.
Adediran, while condemning the directive, described it as a ploy to force the traders in all the markets to attend their planned campaign rally for the APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.
Jandor, through a statement by the Head, Media and Communications, Campaign Organization, Gbenga Ogunleye, noted that leaders of the major markets in the State had earlier cried out following the directive by government to shut their business premises.
Jandor alleged that leaders of the marketer associations decried the threat issued by some agents of the government and the MC Oluomo-led Lagos State Parks and Garages Management Committee to victimize any trader who fails to attend the planned rally.
Jandor described the said action of the State government as “insensitive, callous, barbaric, and criminal.”
He stated that the traders are free citizens of the country whose right to do business is protected by the law of the nation, adding that any act to intimidate or threaten them to attend a programme against their wish is criminal and inhuman.
Jandor warned the government “to desist from unleashing further pains on residents State who are barely surviving the harsh economic condition of the country, which the APC governments at the Federal and State levels have plunged the nation into.”
He advised the government to rescind the directive, saying it will deny the helpless traders their means of livelihood just because APC is holding a rally.
He also urged the traders and market association leaders “to stand their ground by refusing to be bamboozled by the outgoing clueless government into attending the show of shame planned for rally.”
Jandor concluded: “I urge you residents to keep hope alive as you endure the remaining days of the inept APC-led administration. I assure you that your vote for the PDP in the 2023 general elections will birth the much-desired breath of fresh air in the governance of the State.”