A THREAD OF SOME OF THE FACTS SAID BY @AlakeDele ON THE legendary #ABATSpaces yesterday.
Check the last thread for a cup to drop your tears🙏🏾🙏🏾
1- "Asiwaju does not care where you are from, he recognises the talent." - Dele Alake
2- “Kwashiorkor is killing your people and you said you are saving money. Government is not for saving money, it is for bettering the life of your citizens” - Dele Alake
3- "Asiwaju Tinubu capacity to spot talent and put them in the right compartment, where their services or output will be exploited, is the virtue that distinguishes him from others... Which Nigeria must explore as a nation." - Dele Alake
4- “Kwashiorkor is killing your people and you said you are saving money. Government is not for saving money, it is for bettering the life of your citizens” - Dele Alake
5- "Is it the Peter Obi that cannot point to a single legacy after 8 years in Anambra that you would compare to Asiwaju Tinubu? Obi that his business,is anchored on importation, a business destroying our economy? How I wish we borrow ourselves some sense." - Dele Alake
6- “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu used technology to improve the IGR of Lagos by being the 1st governor to employ the Oracle database in payroll management in Nigeria. This helped to block leakages.”
7- “General Marwa is alive and anyone can confirm from him what the IGR of Lagos was when he left. We met 600million monthly before Tinubu restructured the system.” - Dele Alake
8. “Asiwaju Tinubu is a capacity that is unparalleled for management. He was the first Governor to create the ministry of budget, first ever in the history of Nigeria. Also the first to create office of the Chief of Staff in Nigeria."
9- “There's no presidential candidate currently who played a role like Asiwaju did in the enthronement of the democracy we now enjoy"
10- “A man whose business is anchored on consumption & importation is telling you he'd move the country from consumption to production. Such a man will be committing an economical suicide & he won't be doing it alone, he'd be taking the whole nation with him.”
11- “Asiwaju has this beauty and style of management that no other leader in this nation has.
He is the only leader that will bring a point to the table. And he will subject it to debate and resort to best and superior argument at the end of the day"
12- “Tinubu, a Muslim Governor, started the tradition of Christian thanksgiving in Lagos State Govt House. He built the Chapel at the Lagos Govt House at Marina, a Muslim” - Dele Alake
13- ”Tinubu is not a superhuman. Like all of us, he occasionally experiences health challenges. But Tinubu possesses the most robust mental agility and physically stronger than everyone contesting to lead the country today.”
14- "BAT was the first politician in Nigeria to set up a transition council to fashion out blue print prior to his transition, irrespective of your tribe. Asiwaju gathered intellectuals.That was when the current VP was introduced to him."
15- “I want to say to the Obidients that those areas of Lagos where they are flocking, like Lekki, is made habitable today by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu”
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The attack on Kalakuta by “unknown soldiers” in 1977 brought the music career of late FATAI ROLLING DOLLARS to a halt. With all his instruments burnt, it was almost the end of the road for the superstar who went on to become a guard,just to earn a living.. #ThrowbackThursday
For 30 years, a career that was once the envy of upcoming musicians was dislodged and he was confined to the walls of a room face-me-i-face-u with kids. This was a man that had travelled to 8 European countries, performed before kings and even started music before Fela Anikulapo
Make no mistake, Rolling Dollars was a dogged fighter who didn’t give in to tribulations. Even after he was attacked by armed robbers and hospitalised during the course of his new job, he was still performing as a chorister in his church just to earn some stipends.
Asiwaju spoke extensively on widening the tax net to include people like himself instead of increasing VAT and ensuring that credit facilities become a thing in Nigeria if we are to truly nip corruption in the bud. He had earlier maintained this same stance in his 9th colloquium
This was a man whose only two attributes I trusted are his political prowess and “eye for talent” but never these economic reforms being churned out off the books.
“Shey na BAT be this abi na my eyes dey pain me?”
Year in year out, Tinubu has churned out major economic reforms that worked for him in Lagos but which gets ignored in Abuja. Why? These are common sense reforms. What is lacking? I dug further and my answer to that was the man himself, BOLA TINUBU.
No human, living or dead can write the success story of the Lagos Tax Reform without majority of the credits falling back to the man who fought many battles in court to ensure LIRS became a reality in 2005, ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU.
The antiquated laws of the country placed the Board of Internal Revenue under the control of the federal government and it was almost impossible for States to levy additional taxes on the citizens.
Tinubu broke that jinx by establishing the first autonomous state-level tax collection agency in Nigeria in 2005 by engaging British and Nigerian experts to draft an acceptable legislation to set up the office.
Let’s do this. 1. Power: Tinubu’s government, in 2000, contracted AES to build an IPP that will generate 270MW of electricity to Lagos residents in order to exit the irrational power supply being provided by the FG. The 270MW is now part of our national grid.
First of it’s Kind
2. Decentralisation: In order to bring governance closer to the people of Lagos state, Asiwaju created extra 36 LCDAs which led to the disagreement between Lagos and the OBJ led FG. They are still working till date. Nigeria needs someone who believes in this!
First of it’s kind
3. Economy: With an IGR of just over 600million naira when he took over, different initiatives which included the reorganisation of the LIRS led to an unprecedented IGR of over 7billion monthly after 8 years, the sustainability of which has brought same to 57bn in 2022.