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2007: Obasanjo Can't Choose Lagos Gov -Tinubu By Ndubuisi Francis Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State yesterday parried the question of his reported Presidential ambition but instead reacted to President Olusegun Obasanjo's recent boast to 'capture' the state in the 2007 polls. Tinubu who fielded questions from airport correspondents at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, in reaction to Obasanjo's claim said what mattered was to concentrate on the job of running the country and not about capturing any state. "That's my question. When the President officially flags off, we will now commence the campaign proper. Right now is the time to concentrate on the job and not about capturing. And I said he will not give us the governor of Lagos State, it's the people who will choose whoever will succeed me, not a president giving us the governor of Lagos", he said. On his reported presidential ambition, Tinubu waxed philosophical: "No, not yet. I am still serving my term, nothing to indicate that. Lagos is more complex to have such a diversion now. Whatever God wishes, He is the omnipotent". Reacting on the face-off between the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA) and the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), Tinubu noted that while the former is backed by law to handle traffic issues, the latter is not and described FERMA's activities in the state as not only acts of lawlessness but thuggery. He assured that a solution was in the offing to return sanity on the roads which has since suffered a setback due to the disappearance of LASTMA operatives. "We have to return discipline to the roads. It is in the economic interest of Lagos State for traffic to flow. It is for the health of our people to get home on time, to get out of work and to get back to their family on time. "Those who are complaining about psychiatric test, they should listen to the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation). They would have watched BBC yesterday (Wednesday). A star footballer took one way and he was jailed for six years. "Those are the type of discipline. If you want to buy popularity by thinking that every penalty for people taking one way is punitive, then you could see the danger of what other countries are doing to those illegalities...", he said. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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