karl max: I agree with PDP on this one. Its so unfortunate that Fashola is trying to play politics with development. I don't see any reason why Fashola should be opposed to an exercise that seeks to review performance of govts at all levels and showcase what govt is doing with taxpayers money.

Maku's tour is the best thing that has happened to public information management in a long while. I can hardly think of any other programme that promotes accountability and deepens democracy more than this tour.

It is a peer review mechanism of sorts. The town hall meeting concept of it brings an interesting dimension for public engagement.
I understand that the so called 120 delegates are mainly journalists representing several media houses and civil society groups.
It is therefore unfair to describe a fact finding assessment tour by these calibre of people as a jamboree

lacasa:



Let them go anϑ assess Patience jonathan's 4bn mission house first


Mtscheeeuw!!

take dat: Or the N16billion VP residence

The PDP said in a statement signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr Taofik Gani that Fashola was only playing to the gallery, pointing out that he (Fashola) and other governors had endorsed the tour.

``The same governor who has condemned the good governance tour is currently on tour of project sites in the state.

``Honestly, the attitude can be described that of kettle calling pot black.

glen87: Oya those that regard Fashola as god should defend him. Is it not same fashola and Thienubu that wasted billions of naira and blocked the whole surulere just to celebrate thifubu birthday. Criminals.

karl max: Wed, 27/02/2013 - 6:42pm





``The same governor who has condemned the good governance tour is currently on tour of project sites in the state"


http://leadership.ng/nga/articles/48769/2013/02/27/pdp_faults_fasholas_criticism_good_governance_tour.html

manny4life: Fashola is a two-sided man, this won't be the first he has changed his mouth on national matters. This is what's expected from him, not surprised at all.



Need I say more at the bold

Eko Ile:

many4fool is still peddling the same lies by scammers and con men?

Who do I trust? Fashola or Maku and his useless and incompetent 419 scam tour crew? hhhhhhmmm..... Definitely Fashola..


...with people like you carrying water bottle for crooked and corrupt people, Nigeria has no future.

The coordinator of NGGT, Mr Samuel Ajayi, made this known in a statement on Saturday, saying that the “Tour Team will go ahead and inspect Federal projects in such states.”

“But where any state chooses not to participate, it can opt out of the NGGT without blackmailing the Tour Team” Mr Ajayi declared.

“It has become imperative to set the records straight, following comments credited to the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, wherein he declared that he would not use state resources to fund the National Good Governance Tour (NGGT) visit to his state” the statement read.

Explaining the origin and duty of NGGT, the statement noted that the tour is a programme designed by the Federal Ministry of Information in collaboration with the National Planning Commission and the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Performance Monitoring[size=16pt] and endorsed by the 36 State Governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) and the National Economic Council[/size], to publicize the development programmes and projects of all tiers of government in the country.

“It is a non-partisan tour involving the leadership of the Nigeria Union of Journalists; (NUJ) the Radio, Television and Theatre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU); leaders of women and youth organisations; National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS); National Council of Women Societies (NCWS); leaders of non-governmental organisations; operatives of security agencies; representative(s) of the Nigeria Governors Forum Secretariat; and reporters from the nation’s print and electronic media.”

So far, the NGGT team has visited 14 states in the North-Central, South-East and the South-South geo-political zones of the country.

manny4life: Fashola is a two-sided man, this won't be the first he has changed his mouth on national matters. This is what's expected from him, not surprised at all.
Need I say more at the bold

A-ZeD:

Just because other governors supported the GGT doesn't mean Fashola supported it. The GGT is a jamboree. I don't need Maku to tell me if there is light in my house or if my street is tarred.
If Maku wants to do a GGT, he should start by telling us why Patience Jonathan was flown to Germany for treatment when her husband is president and there is provision for the ministry of health in the Nigerian. Charity should start from Aso-rock.

take dat: Why does he need some excurtionists, when he is already inspecting the project sites with journalists from the state controlled media and other independent media houses?

karl max: u mean his own propoganda media house and buttlickers weather he likes it or not NGGT is coming to lagos! Maku is coming to show nigerians the FG projects in lagos just like he did in EDO state without the governor.some people are tired of hearing and reading the propoganda from journalists of the STATE controlled media.

lacasa:



Let them go anϑ assess Patience jonathan's 4bn mission house first


Mtscheeeuw!!

lacasa:



Let them go anϑ assess Patience jonathan's 4bn mission house first


Mtscheeeuw!!

karl max: u mean his own propoganda media house and buttlickers weather he likes it or not NGGT is coming to lagos! Maku is coming to show nigerians the FG projects in lagos just like he did in EDO state without the governor.some people are tired of hearing and reading the propoganda from journalists of the STATE controlled media.

Enoquin: In my opinion, I see nothing beneficial in Maku's governance tour. When he goes to a state, he is a guest of the governor of that state and so is duty bound to promote the state...there is no state that is perfect...yet, all I read are how the government of this state is doing this and that...of a truth, a working governor's project will always be visible...can you close your eyes to good roads, water or other governmental projects?
The tour is just a way to spend money...it is most often going to be biased anyway. A better way at show-casing a working or not government will be to send in people anonymously...who will give their reports with evidence like pictures and audios...so, it doesn't seem as if any governor is being witch hunted...

Enoquin: In my opinion, I see nothing beneficial in Maku's governance tour. When he goes to a state, he is a guest of the governor of that state and so is duty bound to promote the state...there is no state that is perfect...yet, all I read are how the government of this state is doing this and that...of a truth, a working governor's project will always be visible...can you close your eyes to good roads, water or other governmental projects?
The tour is just a way to spend money...it is most often going to be biased anyway. A better way at show-casing a working or not government will be to send in people anonymously...who will give their reports with evidence like pictures and audios...so, it doesn't seem as if any governor is being witch hunted...