Lagos 2015: Pitan promises 20,000 jobs in 100 days

From Ayodele Samuel, Lagos

A former Lagos State Commissioner for Health and Education, Leke Pitan, has promised to provide employment for 20,000 youths within his first 100 days in office if elected as Lagos state Governor.

Pitan who publicly declared his intention to contest on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday in Lagos, promised to continue the legacies of the former Lagos State Governors, Lateef Jakande and Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and the incumbent Governor, Babatunde Fashola.

Pitan who unveiled his Eight-Point blue-print at his official declaration in Lagos, assured the market women in the state that his government will construct affordable shops for them to carry out their trading activities successfully.

“If given your mandate, I make a solemn pledge today before God and man, to ensure the continued delivery of my promises by running a government that is focused on human capital development and driven by two very essential and core pillars of socio-economic investments in our people and physical environment re-engineering.

“These pillars are what will sustain our eight point blue-print of economic empowerment, health care reforms; educational reforms; security of lives and property; food security and agriculture expansion programmes; affordable housing schemes and new towns development.

Others, according to him are inner city roads construction and multi-modal transportation schemes; water works and power generation.

He declared that he joined the race because his party would need a candidate Lagosians are familiar with and could trust for the party to emerge victorious in 2015.

He said having the presence of mind and understanding of the need for APC to put its strongest foot forward in their match to retain the governorship seat of Lagos State, he is convinced that he is eminently qualified for the job, both by training and by vocation.

“As progressives, we have promised the people social services. If you promise to cloth the people, you won’t send a carpenter to them. You will rather send a tailor who has been doing that for them. They will be happy and have confidence in such.

“As such, my coming into the race is not about personal ambition, but to keep the tempo of providing social services for the people, the foundation of which some of us worked with Asiwaju Tinubu to lay in 1999 and which the incumbent Governor Babatunde Fashola has creditably built on,” he said.