Agbaje mocks Fashola, says “a working governor can’t pay doctors”

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, on Thursday, tasked the state government to immediately pay striking medical doctors in the state.
Agbaje was reacting to the warning strike embarked upon by doctors on Lagos State payroll.

In a statement issued by his media aide, Remi Adefulu, Agbaje wondered why Fashola, “who claims to be a working Governor cannot pay medical doctors”.
Describing the strike as one too many, Agbaje said: “My heart bleeds over this avoidable strike because I find it unbelievable that the state is making the poor masses suffer unduly due to minor issue like salaries, which is the right of every worker.”
Agbaje, a pharmacist, lamented that residents in the state had gone through untold hardship, having suffered the effects of incessant strikes in the health sector in the last six months.

“Government the world over is about the people, but are the people not the ones suffering?” Agbaje quipped.

“Something urgent should be done by government to alleviate their sufferings and prevent avoidable deaths”, he added.