Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has faulted those saying All Progressives Congress (APC) should learn lessons from its loss in the June 21 Ekiti State governorship election.
The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Ayo Fayose, won the election by a wide margin, defeating the incumbent, APC’s Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
But in an interview on Wednesday, Fashola said it would be dangerous for democracy to suggest that the lesson to be learnt is that winning an election is about sharing money and rice “which is very easy to provide”.
Fayose is believed to have won partly because of his ability to “connect with the grassroots” through sharing of goodies, while Fayemi was described as “elitist”.
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Fashola said the outcome of the election has raised some fundamental questions, maintaining that the supposed lessons “are frightening and disturbing dimensions to conduct of politics and questions on human behaviour”.
“Should we just be giving money and when people ask about security, we say we have given you the money, go and rent your own security? So when people ask about hospitals and drugs we say you have collected money. Is that a model for development?” he asked.
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