Yoruba elders say "Àṣesílẹ̀ làbọ̀wábá; ẹni tó ṣu sílẹ̀ á padà bọ̀ wá bá eṣinṣin" (Everyone will experience the consequence of their action. Whoever defecates on the floor will later have to contend with flies)
No need to wait for TV Interview, The past is enough:
Nigeria has REVENUE issue, we need DOERS, not TALKERS.
In Episode1, I did show how Tinubu was faced with Ocean Surge Challenge & how Eko Atlantic City came out of that.
In Episode2, I did show how the menace of waste management in Lagos was turned into REVENUE Generation..
One of the MAJOR issues we have in Nigeria is #PoliceReform & I'm sure we all agree on this irrespective of party affiliation.
No need to run around from one TV station to another, what Tinubu, Atiku & Obi DID in 8 years & its SUSTAINABILITY should be a pointer to their CAPACITY.
During #NBAAGC2022 the INCOMING Vice President @KashimSM said "Our successes in Lagos, Borno show we'll hit the ground running immediately"...
Let's test it again:
36 Governors were sworn in on 29th May 1999, by
6th July 1999, @officialABAT was already on POLICE REFORM in Lagos!
6th July 1999 was less that 2 months from May 29 when all Governors were sworn in.
Gov Tinubu of Lagos was in the opposition, President Obasanjo& Atiku of PDP at the centre couldn't stop him from going ahead with Lagos Rapid Response Squad @rrslagos767.
Other 35 Governors??
As far back as 1999, Gov Tinubu said "I want to assure you that you will see and you will feel the difference"....He also spoke about Community based Neighborhood watch.
Listen, that was July 1999, this is 2022, no State security has come close to that of Lagos.
He's far ahead!
As he admitted in that inaugural speech when he was setting up @rrslagos767 for Lagos that it would be a learning process on which improvement would be built on, successive Governors in Lagos have built on that, yet Nigeria is still grappling with the same issue across 35 States!
In the world of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, @PoliceNG deserves our collective respect & this was made obvious in his speech on 9th July '99, the way @rrslagos767 was equipped, trained & supported in Lagos, even the worst enemy of Lagos will admit RRS standard is needed in Nigeria!
When @fkeyamo was granting interview and he said Lagos is Lagos because a thinking leader like Tinubu hit the ground running with SPECIFIC POLICIES whose blueprints that have been well sustained by his successors, the way @officialABAT took up #PoliceReform in Lagos proved that!
Having stated in his speech the need to get security to the grassroot, existing Neighborhood Watchin Lagos was redesigned & was given more prominence to make d issue of Security LOCAL. This was why Lagos had no need of Amotekun 20 years after even though they're in full support!
When Gov Fashola took over from Tinubu, he
injected public-private partnership by setting up a committee headed by the former IGP Musiliu Smith to look into ways of bringing private sector into security. That was done & Lagos State Security Task Force was formed. @followlsstf
BRF didn't drop the ball, he started life insurance policy for @rrslagos767.
Bulletproof vests, thousands of patrol vehicles,
monthly allowance to augment the salaries they receive from the FG etc were the ways Fashola took it higher. Gov Ambode came & added to the progress.
Lagos State Security Trust Fund at d Civic Centre Lagos generated over N2B largely from the private sector when Gov Fashola made that move.
Gov Ambode got in & ensured they were further equipped with patrol cars; Ford Ranger pick–ups; Land Cruiser pick-ups; Power Bikes etc...
Gov @jidesanwoolu has been taking both @rrslagos767 and Neighborhood watch to a new level. This CONTINUITY in Lagos is VISIBLE because someone took the sensible initiative very early, hence others have something to build upon because you cannot build something on nothing.
On 9th October 2020, I spoke about modeling Nigerian Police Force after Lagos RRS. If it's working, no need to break it, just reinvent it and make it better.
The question we should have asked all the while is, what were other 35 Governors doing in 1999?
Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu already has a track record of Turning things around, his records SPEAKS louder than running from one TV station to another....
His Records have been speaking on what he is capable of doing about SPECIFIC ISSUES that Nigeria is still tackling till date.
I'm very PROUD of what President Buhari has been able to do so far. Projects that couldn't be done in 16 years & even a decade before 1999, Buhari came & made them look like "ORDINARY 2nd Niger Bridge, ORDINARY TRAIN, ORDINARY ROADS"
Tinubu/Shettima will ACCELRATE the progress!
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BATTLELINES: Adventures in Journalism And Politics’ Olusegun Osoba, Diamond Publications, 2018, pp.280-294
My conclusion: Obasanjo was naturally configured to betray others and be selfish toward himself only no matter the cost....
How Obasanjo Deceived Us In 2003
- Aremo Olusegun Osoba, former Governor of Ogun State
“As it turned out, unwittingly, we had handed Obasanjo ( Chief Olusegun Obasanjo,then President of Nigeria) a tool with which he later dealt with us too. After “stooping to conquer” the National Assembly, and surviving the impeachment plot, he later “stooped to conquer” the AD governors and Afenifere.
After he survived the impeachment plot, he never showed any sense of remorse. We could not believe his new bellicose approach when in a national broadcast he described the impeachment plot as “joke carried too far”
The attempt to impeach him eventually won him some sympathy in Yorubaland. It was after this experience that Obasanjo began a frontal attempt to woo the AD governors. He came to Lagos to attend the Convocation at the University of Lagos and then invited all the AD governors to a meeting later in the night same day. Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos was the contact between us and Obasanjo over the arrangements for the meeting....
2....
We met him in the old office of the head of state at Dodan Barracks. The only person who accompanied him to the meeting was the Director of the State Security Services (SSS), Col. Kayode Are. At the meeting, he directly requested support from all the six AD governors. He said he wanted an understanding between us and himself because he faced some serious challenges that were likely to create some upheaval in the political terrain and in the country at large. Therefore, he wanted an understanding and a working relationship with us.
We analysed the situation in the country and told him a few home truths. Firstly, we told him that even though we were head of governments, we had leaders and elders in the party that he must discuss with, if he needed any kind of understanding with us. Secondly, we wondered what the basis of our understanding with him would be when his term was coming to an end with no prospect of his securing his party’s ticket for a second term. We made it clear that a working relationship between the two groups was beyond us. A decision of that magnitude would have to be reported to Afenifere leaders who had the authority to take a final position on it. We immediately reported the proceedings to Chief Abraham Adesanya who convened a meeting where it was debated with serious reservations amongst the leadership about fraternising with Obasanjo.
The Afenifere and AD leadership were not going to give their heart and soul to support Obasanjo’s second term ambition without extracting some major political commitment from him. A meeting was held in Lagos where the conditions for negotiating with Obasanjo were agreed upon. After the meeting at his home, Adesanya, he led a team with Afenifere charter of demand to Ota to discuss with Obasanjo.
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The delegation to Ota included Chief Ayo Adebanjo, Senator Femi Okunrounmu and Cornelius Adebayo. Okunrounmu and Adebayo were mandated to speak on behalf of AD and Afenifere. Adesanya called and asked me to join them at Obasanjo’s Ota Farm, from my station in Abeokuta.
The conditions presented to Obasanjo amongst others were: the restructuring of the Nigerian federation, devolution of power, including moving some items from the exclusive to the concurrent list and ensuring fiscal federalism. Obasanjo was to organize a credible and transparent national census. Merit must be followed alongside federal character and quota system in the recruitment to federal positions across the country.
Obasanjo assured us that he identified with them. He explained that he had even started implementing the issue of merit in federal appointments indirectly through the privatization of many public enterprises which were run for many years without respect for merit. With the privatization and the enthronement of a culture of merit, he expected many Nigerian professionals abroad would return home to run the privatised enterprises. He affirmed that privatization was a part of enthroning meritocracy.
Obasanjo said arrangements had been completed to ensure a genuine, transparent and acceptable headcount. He told us the satellite mapping of all Nigeria cities, towns and villages was in the making. Even without a headcount, he explained that with satellite mapping, it was possible to count the number of houses everywhere in the land and with that get a rough idea of how many people live in the house and in the country. He said he would lay the issue of census to rest in the second term, through GOOGLE, the days of census inflation were over.
I listened to EVERYTHING FESTUS OSIFO the PENGASSAN President said in this 37 minute interview.
I have never had a complete package tutorial around Oil and Gas issue like this👌👌
No Meda personality has ever brought this level in clarification to the issues around Dangote Refinery, NNPC, Pricing, Crude Supply, TAM in NNPC, Downstream sector, FX floating etc....
FESTUS OSIFO the Pengassan President giving real breakdown of how Oil and Gas costing is calculated and other issues around Dangote PMS price and why NNPC is the one buying alone for now....
FESTUS OSIFO 👌👌👌
Now, it's ok not to agree with everything he said, but don't block your mind from learning, unlearning and relearning....
The conversation must continue UNTIL we know what we want. There is practically no other way to get a cheap price of PMS outside SUBSIDY. All these noise and emotional talks are just not making any logical sense.
ALL the leading Presidential candidates said SUBSIDY MUST GO & WE ALL VOTED FOR THEM......We simply agreed with ANYONE who won to remove subsidy, that's what it means.
We cannot spend $40bn on subsidy and less than half on education & health - Peter ObiLabour Party's presidential candidate on @ARISEtv
You see all those new argument about, "I will put some things in place before removing subsidy" is just illogical brain dots....
The question was clear enough before election & the answer by Tinubu the winner, Atiku and Peter Obi was CLEAR enough...By June 2023, Subsidy would go.
Every other gymnastic statement AFTER the winner removed subsidy was just lazy talk without any substance, Nigerians and I meant all of us would have felt the pain EXACTLY the way we are feeling it now irrespective of who won and removed subsidy with FX market unification.
The Old Argument by individuals who didn't want to go straight about removal was that "at least I will ensure LOCAL REFINERY is in place before removing subsidy"....
That in itself is a RED FLAG of a deceiver seeking to be elected by all means, NO PRESIDENT sworn in among them in May29 2023 could have fixed anything in LOCAL REFINERY in June their 1st month.
That's a Presidential candidate propaganda. You couldn't have shit before removing subsidy you promised to remove IMMEDIATELY.
FG RICE REVOLUTION POLICY AND WHY THINGS MESSED UP....
I have found out that once you join emotional drama of pointing accusing fingers at the Politicians ONLY, everyone seems COOL & OK.
Ok, let me say Politicians messed it up so that you will be happy & you can logically join this conversation....
Buhari started something in 2016 that the Elites were against when he said we must produce what we consume....A task force was set up.
A panel was set up and every stake holder was involved in 2016....
The purpose of this policy well defined:
"A policy document seen by Reuter late last year showed that the Government aims to be self sufficient in both rice and wheat production within three years"
HELLconomists on Social Media with big big degrees were everywhere & they were against everything...."Why closing border, you want to kpai Nigerians"
When Govt stopped importation, we were against it, When Govt plans to start importation, we are against it.....We are against EVERYTHING but that's not even the focus now🤣🤣
By August 2019, Govt had moved further to close border and the purpose of that closure among other things, was to encourage LOCAL PRODUCTION....