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CURIOUS FACT: Most Governors Today Spend 8 Years In Office But In REALITY, They Achieve Less Than What 1979-83 Era Governors Did In 4 Years

You need to start from tomorrow to track d legacies of men such as Governors Jakande,Tatari,Mbakwe,Okilo & Alli. Do make that effort

Today's tingods "blowing sirens" all over for nothing?Did u as a pupil or student experience d UPN's Free Education+Free Healthcare progs.?

Judging by the standards of today's near-total ineffectuality at all levels of govt, now I CAN SEE that those ones were the true leaders

#writingabook In order that the unknowing might be guided aright,we have taken the pains to have these things chronicled for posterity

In our wisdom or lack of it and in the face of conspicuous consumption in the midst of a recession which gave rise to AUSTERITY>

<measures,Nigerians assuned that they could not possibly hv landed a worse deal than d comparatively conscientious governors we had then

Believe me,in this Nigeria,we had men such as Senator Shitta-Bey who chose to forego their salaries all through d 2nd Republic.

In Lagos, Gov Jakande went about conducting the serious business of governance in his personal Toyota Crown sedan

It pleased God Almighty to so grant that my first whiff of democratic governance happened whilst one was a primary school kid in the >

<glorious state of Bendel which ultimately birthed the sister states of Edo & Delta on 27 August 1991

At the time, the state governor we had was no less a service-oriented+sure-footed Professor of Morbid Anatomy, Ambrose Folorunso Alli

Alli was known for his run-ins with the FG in what may well hv bn a trial run of what is today's agitation for true federalism

However,he went about that effort of squeezing the last kobo accruable to Bendel frm d FG with civility.He went to court for Bendelites

Mind you,the monies he sought were not for new bullet-proof jeeps or sedans but to enhance his govt's capacity to render qualitative service

Back in the day, his state car, a Mercedes Benz 230E was NOT even armoured. Neither were its windows tinted. He only used ONE

Well, compare then to now when at Abuja Liaison Offices, two armoured Benz E550s,a Range Rover,a G550, a BMW 750iL & six Prado jeeps are>

< parked for the convenience & ego massage of some governors whose states cannot generate 2m dollars in IGR in a month

The Unity Party of Nigeria to which the likes of Jakande & Alli belonged had as its cardinal programmes free education and free healthcare

No sooner had the 2nd Republic governors been sworn in did Alli plunge straight into executing his party's programmes for Bendelites

The legacy of that Free Education Programme was such that 34 yrs aft Alli left office & 28 yrs aft his death, >

<75+% of the secondary schools in Edo & Delta states todat were established during Alli's time as governor

Look around Edo & Delta and SEE from their signboards that more than half of the secondary schools appear to have been >

<established in 1980 while another one-quarter wr set up in 1981 or 1982. Tis an INDELIBLE legacy which cannot be wiped out by any man

And guess what? You see all those fat Science & Geography textbooks written by the likes of Holderness+Lambert, Abbott, Goh+Cheng+Leong>

< RB Burnett, Nelkon..NOTE all textbooks used by primary+secondary schools,notebooks+stationery were made available>

<for EVERY pupil & student in Bendel State by that administration, 100% free of charge. Now you knw why they TICK whn it comes to education

And oh,his Benz 230E was supplied by Leventis Motors Nigeria Ltd. It was not customised & shipped in frm Daimler Benz AG in Deutschland

Summarily,may God grant your nation servant leaders.We overwhelmingly endure a conclave of local potentates for governors nowadays