Fashola’s successor not a religion matter’

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State, Chief Ayo Akande has admonished Lagosians not to make religion the basis for choosing who succeeds Governor Babatunde Fashola come 2015.

Akande, who said he was reacting to a call by a segment of the Lagos populace that a Christian should succeed Fashola, said in a statement on Thursday that it would be undemocratic to make religion the determining factor in choosing a governor for the state.

He said, “Using religion to determine or to select who succeed Governor Babatunde Fashola after a very successful tenure will be divisive and disastrous for the socio-economic development of a mega city like Lagos.

“Fashola has performed meritoriously well; we need somebody who could do as much or even better. We need quality and integrity to choose the governor’s successor.”

He said in as much as it was difficult to change from Islam to Christianity, the zoning arrangement in the APC was tolerable.

“The fluidity in it makes it easier for anybody to move from west or centre to the east and will be eligible to contest. The worst is ethnicity. You cannot change from a Yoruba to a Hausa,”