LG Polls: Fashola Rallies 2.6m Beneficiaries Of Free Health Missions

Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on Thursday stated that the Chairmen of Local Government Councils and Local Council Development Authorities in the State have championed the hosting and operations of the Medical Health Missions in the State from which 2.6million people have benefited in the last four years.

The Governor who spoke at the 2011 Local Government Election campaigns for Badagry Division held at Mile 2 Bust Stop, added that within the first two hours on the first day of the commencement of the exercise in Amuwo Odofin, a total of 950 people have been attended to which translates that by the end of the day not less than 2000 residents of the area must have benefitted from the free medical mission.

According to him, by the end of the five days exercise about 10,000 people would have benefitted.

He urged the people of Lagos State to go out and vote massively in support of the Local Government Chairmen fielded by the Action Congress of Nigeria who have made Lagos Polio and Cholera free in spite of the huge population of the State.

He reiterated that the Chairmen have been the bulwark of the primary health care which ensured that Lagos did not record any incidence of Cholera despite the prevalence of the disease in several parts of the country.

Governor Fashola therefore urged the parents and guardians of all the children who have been saved the ordeal of the child killer diseases to go out on Saturday, October 22 to vote for the ACN Local Government Chairmen who have kept disease, paralysis and death at bay all around the State.

Governor Fashola stated that the Local Government Chairmen have been responsible for carrying out day to day and door to door delivery of the various vaccines that has ensured the banishment of diseases that has reduced infant mortality in the State.

The Governor noted that the healthy preservation of the human capital of the State has been a major achievement of the Local Government Chairmen adding that the 2.6 million beneficiaries of the Health Missions and other programmes like improved primary education should go out and cast their votes for the ACN.

Governor Fashola urged the people not to be deceived into voting for any candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party because when the Councils where conceived by the administration of former governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the PDP Government tried by all means to kill the councils.

He said even when the government in Lagos sought legal interpretation of its action, the Supreme Court ruled in its favour that the creation of the Councils were legal, the Federal Government held back the allocation of the councils to strangulate them.

He stressed that members of the opposition PDP in the state never believed in the existence of the councils and handing any of the local government councils to them at the elections will result in their being killed by the PDP.

Stating that plans have been concluded with the Local Councils to re-invigorate the primary health care system, Governor Fashola informed that in the next few weeks, the state government in conjunction with the local councils will create a model Primary Health Care Centre that will operate for 24 hours in each of the 57 Local Government area and Local Council Development Areas in the State.

He added that each of the model Primary Health Care Centre will work round the clock to minister to the needs of the people at the local government level.

The Governor stated that there would be restriction of movement between the hours of 7am and 3pm on Saturday, stressing that all markets will remain closed during that period when everybody is expected to go and vote.

Several members of opposition parties like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Fresh Party of Nigeria (FP) crossed over to the Action Congress of Nigeria at the well attended rally.

Party flags were later presented to all the Chairmanship candidates of the ACN from the Badagry Division by the State Chairman of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Chief Henry Ajomale.