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Great's Perspective of Lagos & Tinubu - Thread

At independence in 1960, the population of Lagos was 762,000. The infrastructure by Lord Luggard, Chief Awolowo, Brigadier Boblaji Johnson, Commodore Adekunle Lawal, Commodore Ebitu Akiwee, Alhaji Lateef Jakande,

Air Commodore Gbolaha Mudasiru, Captain Mike Akhigbe, Brigadier General Raji Rasaki, Sir Michael Otedola, Colonel Oyinlola and Colonel Mohamed Buba Marwa could only house a couple of million people. There needed to be a proper, futuristic approach to the planning and development

of Lagos. By the time Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu became the Lagos governor, Lagos's population had grown to about 7,000,000 (1999). Lagos, Oshodi, and any part of the state were filthy. The issue of Agbero started when the Portuguese displaced Lagos Island indigenes for Lagos

was endemic. Like the gang sects in New York and Califonia, Lagos was plagued with thuggery and hooligans. The efforts that have been made since 1999 to channel the energy of this class of people have been mislabelled with mischief. London has been facing knife crimes for decades

New York has struggled with gangs for hundreds of years. As a person born in Mushin, I know that some of the guys we call agbero today had parents and grandparents who were born into the trade. Millions of them cannot be switched off with the press of a button; it will take

strategic redeployment that requires public understanding. The improvement made with places like Oshodi today is like magic, to the like of me. I went to school in Iyano Isolo. At a point, I had to come to school from Ikeja, passing through Oshodi daily. It was scary; it was

a nightmare growing up. I still have a phobia of driving through Oshodi to get to the International airport because of the trauma I experienced growing up with Oshodi. By the time Tinubu left office, the population of Lagos had realistically hit close to 12,000,000. No great

leader in world governance could have managed the surge better than his unselfish approach to forgo an ambition to go back into the senate. Instead, he opted to mentor and groom men and women of class and competence to continue to make Lagos viable for all to live and trade.

His critics called this godfather, and I thought this way at some point, too, until I began to cover my grounds in travel around the world. The state of Texas had been under continued progress in infrastructural development since the Bush family began to run the state affairs.

I am not a big fan of the Republicans; I am also not too much into the Bush, but it is hard to argue that Texas has been a case study of modernization with massive infrastructural development. Like, Bush, Tinubu's successors had been members of his cabinets while in office;

some were his protegee since their 20s or early 30s. Rather than hate this enigmatic leader, we should go back to study Singapore, how a country that in 1959 was looking up to Nigeria as an inspiration and benchmark. The government had a leader ( Lee Kuan Yew). For 31 years,

LKY ran the affairs of the Nation and mentored members of his cabinet to take roles and responsibility in the development of the country. Contrary to the kind of democracy Nigeria practices today, his Nation's constitution and the people understand that it takes continuity

to achieve greatness as a country. Often misunderstood and sometimes called tough, greedy, non-conformist, LKY left Singapore in a position that today is regarded as a developed country. Singapore got independence twice; they got final independence a couple of years after

Nigeria did. The policy of changing government every 4 years is hard to produce significant development in any underdeveloped country. The continuity model through apprenticeship, accountability and progressive ideas will benefit Nigeria in the long run, rather than

the obsession to slag, fight, hate, and beat down the government every time. Lagos, as of 2022, is over 22,000,000 people by realistic projection since there is no accurate census. Today, Lagos is home to most of the thriving businesses and individuals in the country.

Today, from Lagos, Music, Movies, and Innovation travel the rest of the world. Yet, some people hate the man who took has played a significant role in making Lagos the home of celebrities. We see differently, and obviously, Africans have bought into the cacophony of democracy

that makes people build, pull down, start again, set the place on fire with anger for not getting it right, and then begin the process all over again. Rome was built a day ago. I love Lagos, and I support Bola Ahmed Tinubu -

If you agree Follow me. If you don't, remember, we may disagree today, but be agreeable tomorrow. I love you too, follow me, no be a fight. Guess what, I believe your candidate can win too. Only one winner will emerge and he will be our president. One Love.
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*Rome was not built in a day