After contesting the governorship of Lagos State twice, business man and politician, Jimi Agbaje has again thrown his hat into the ring having began preparations to contest the position again.
He submitted his expressions form of interest on Monday and has began preparations towards clinching the coveted trophy this time around.
Agbaje in an exclusive phone interview with Newdawnngr.com corrected the impression created by his declaration after casting his vote in 2015 during the governorship election in Lagos when he was quoted as having said that that exercise would be his last saying he said so because he was sure of victory.
He said, “I was quoted out of contest,” adding, “I granted the interview before the results of the election came out and it was with the conviction that I would win the election.”
“However, the interview was not published until after the result came out and it was misinterpreted that I won’t contest again, I am back on the block again”,he told Newdawnngr.com.
Asked what prompted his decision to continue after two failed attempts he declared,’ ruling Lagos for me is a work in progress. It was a work which started in 2007 and having been in power for twenty years it is time for the people of Lagos to have a change’.
‘’I believe Lagos deserves a new order after spending twenty years under the same political party.there is a need for a new order in Lagos and I represent that new order” he declared.
He went down memory lane ascribing his determination to a sense of doggedness adding,”the efforts to break down the Berlin wall did not just start one day.It has taken may times but at the appropriate time, the Berlin wall fell after persistent push”.
The Berlin wall did not fall in one day but it fell after much efforts’.
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“I believe that Lagos after being in the same saddle for twenty years deserves a change of government and 2019 is the time for a new order in Lagos. Lagos deserves a new order in 2019 . The Berlin Wall did not just fall one day, the time for a change in Lagos is next year.
Agbaje, it will be recalled that he first contested for the governorship election on the platform of the then Democratic People’s Alliance (DPA) in 2007, the party he joined as a result of the crisis in the then Alliance for Democracy (AD) after the party primaries which threw up former governor Babatunde Raji Fashola.
However, the party which had the backing of the then leading Yoruba socio- cultural group Afenifere and under which platform he cut his political teeth lost the election to the then ruling AD of Governor Bola Tinubu.
However, Agbaje took a rest in 2011 election preferring instead to wait till 2015 when he pitched his tent with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) but lost narrowly to incumbent Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.
