Lagos NDC candidate promises free schooling and healthcare within 100 days
Funso Doherty, the Nigeria Democratic Congress governorship candidate in Lagos, has promised free education, healthcare and school meals if elected in 2027. He also proposed free transport for some public-school pupils and said his administration would target 150,000 housing units during its first term.
Funso Doherty, the Nigeria Democratic Congress candidate for governor of Lagos State, has promised to make education and healthcare free within his first 100 days in office if elected in 2027. Doherty made the pledge on Thursday at a town hall meeting hosted by The Platform, a thought leadership initiative of The Covenant Nation in Lagos. He said public-school pupils would receive free books and exam fees under his proposed administration.
He also promised that every child in a public school would receive one nutritious meal each day. A further programme, he said, would provide free transport to school for pupils who needed it. Doherty said children would be a central priority because of the state’s demographics.
“Education is not denied to any child,” he said, describing children as both the hope of the future and a potential time bomb if their needs were ignored. On healthcare, he pledged what he called truly free healthcare, with particular attention to maternal and child health services. The source material does not provide details on how the proposed services would be financed or administered.
Doherty also outlined a housing target for his first term. Rather than building projects of a few hundred units, he said his administration would adopt a “quantum approach” and deliver about 150,000 units over four years. He attributed the housing proposal to the gap between supply and demand.
The candidate’s pledges remain campaign commitments and are conditional on his election in 2027.
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