Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, has urged Nigerians to vote based on merit in the coming general elections, noting that voting based on religious or ethnic sentiments can deny quality leaders from emerging at the polls.
The governor while addressing a large gathering at the monthly draw of the Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme on Wednesday told Nigerians to be wary of politicians who only remembered them during the election period to make superficial promises. He urged the electorate to critically assess the track records of the politicians and their political parties before voting for them.
He said, “It is election time and they will start coming with vote-catching promises, but they have never kept their promises before.
“We on our part, see promises as something sacred and must be kept. We make promises and we keep them. We promised to deliver 200 homes monthly and we have kept our promise. These are the physical examples that we keep our promise and it is not about tribe or religion.”
“When you are making your choice, forget about religion; forget about tribe because you are not choosing us to come and pray for you, but to work for you. God has already chosen the reverends and the imams who will pray for us and give us full spiritual diets.
“What we need now are people who will help us face our physical battles like providing electricity, schools, security, health care and jobs. That is what we need,” he said.
