Thread by @fibre005

Lagos was the first state capital of Nigeria, which made it develop faster than any other part of Nigeria.
2. Lagos is the only state in Nigeria where the Federal Government (not Tinubu) developed the biggest sea port. They could have also developed Port-harcourt...
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But we today know why PH port is still underdeveloped.
Since Nigeria is mostly an importation country, it makes sense that majority of the businesses we have today contributing to our GDP will set up HQ and most of their businesses in Lagos not any other state.

2 Now we all know that in Nigeria today, people pay their personal income tax to the state where they live, not where they work. We also know because of the terrible traffic situation; people are forced to live in Lagos. This has contributed to the high IGR of the state.

3. We also know that the concentration of the bigger players in Lagos is the reason why smaller businesses easily grows in Lagos and the reason why population is growing in Lagos.
Any governor that seats in Lagos and will achieve high IGR anytime

Why all this story, am tired of hearing Tinubu built Lagos, that is totally a cheap sell. Our colonial masters-built Lagos state. Alh. Jakande, Olagunsoye Oyinlola, Bubu Marwa all did marvelously well. Lagos has always been lucky to have great governors.

4. If Tinubu truly built Lagos, why was he not able to replicate the same success with Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo and Even Kogi where he installed his men.
Even in Lagos, Fashola performed far better than all the other Governors and yet Tinubu personally wanted to take him out...

5. Any reasonable person that wants to generate money to do project in Lagos can easily do so. Am very certain if Peter was Governor of Lagos state and Tinubu was Governor of Anambra, Peter Obi would have probably done exceptionally better that BAT.

6. So, please, stop coming online to throw cheap point saying Tinubu built Lagos and Igbos are enjoying it. Infact igbos contribute more to the Lagos gdp than all BAT's strategy put together. just becos of the advantage Lagos state has over other states.

7. If he sure for BAT, he should force the federal government to complete Lagos-Ibadan express in 2 months, He should force Federal government to go upgrade PH port to d same level with Lagos PH and Let's see if Lagos will Have as much mouth as they still have today.