Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, did not build Lagos State, but according to the South-West Grand Alliance For Tinubu-Shettima 2023, he reshaped the state with his “blueprint.”
Wole Badmus, the organization’s executive director, made this statement on Wednesday’s Sunrise Daily episode of Channels Television.
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“No one is asserting that Tinubu founded Lagos. Nobody is claiming that Tinubu discovered Lagos; rather, we are stating that Tinubu took office as governor when Lagos was on the verge of disintegrating. When he was elected governor, Lagos’s infrastructure was in an unheard-of state of decline, according to Badmus.
We’re not arguing Tinubu brought Lagos; rather, we’re saying Tinubu transformed Lagos, and people need to accept that truth, he continued.
Another APC leader who spoke on the programme with Badmus, Tunde Bank-Anthony, claimed that Tinubu cannot claim credit for the accomplishments of his successors.
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However, Tinubu provided the groundwork for modern Lagos, which his successors Babatunde Fashola, Akinwunmi Ambode, and Babajide Sanwo-Olu could develop upon, said Badmus.
“When you talk about Ambode, Fashola, and Sanwo-Olu, all of these people are products of Tinubu’s school of thought,” he declared. All subsequent governors of Lagos State are working on Tinubu’s 25-year development plan, which includes short-, medium-, and long-term goals. This plan was created as of 1999. Do you know that the Blue and Red Line trains that are now being discussed are included in the design Tinubu created in 1999?
“Tinubu already provided the groundwork for the Fashola administration to build on. Fashola created the framework on which Ambode might build. It’s a straightforward political deduction. Asiwaju’s investments in Lagos are plainly visible to everyone.
