2023: Woman Joins Lagos Guber Race

Khairat Animashaun Ajiboye has joined the 2023 governorship race in Lagos State, on the platform of the All Progressive Congress (APC).

Ajiboye who made her intention known in a press conference yesterday in Lagos disclosed that, she preconceived this idea ten years ago but, it became stronger this time around than ever.

According to her, “just as I was trying to reason out the appropriate justification for this proposition; the party policy to allow women participate in elective positions and the free nomination form for women factor came through to light (All thanks to Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu led APC National Executive).

She pointed out that, Man proposes and God disposes, that is the circumstance surrounding her intention in this regards, adding that, she has resolved that her policies must reflect participation for the benefit of humanity.

Her words: “I have been there, done that! We all know the decadence which had overwhelmed our social space and bedeviled our nascent values; eroding our cultural and moral values in every facets of our lives. I have seen and heard; people molested and prejudiced; people kidnapped and killed; people living in abject poverty in the midst of plenty; capable hands rendered jobless and unproductive; people economically handicapped due to planlessness and purposelessness on the part of most of us including the followers; decayed and dilapidated infrastructures; lack of pipe borne water; poor power supply; nose diving investment ; gross exploitation of the masses; excessive levies and taxes without a corresponding transfer of benefits to the masses; people homeless; innocent ones suffer victimization; criminals living large at the instance of impunity and miscarriage of Justice; square pegs in round holes to mention but just a few.”

She further stressed that, “all of these as the aforementioned are coined to be “avoidable anomalies” – which shouldn’t be allowed to persist. These, I can tell you takes its toll on innocent masses who are the electorates. These are the people who put their All at stake to ensure the institutions of governance. Why then should they be made to suffer prejudice, negligence, intimidation, exploitation and relegation? We all can and must do better!”

“it is time to rise up above all of these as a people. We are more than what we have been conjectured to be by the bourgeoisie (masses). We are the “King Makers” – we own the “Power”. She added.

While reacting to question on how to wrestle power from the power that be, she stressed that, she’s familiar with the terrain, and it’s also the collective responsibility of Lagosians to wrestle power out of the hands of the current holders and change the status quo in order to usher in a new beginning for a better Lagos for all.