Theflint1:
Under who's influence do you think he got his first stint as minister? I think this is the idiot that wears white gloves on his hands to avoid shaking women directly.

Since this one has served as minister before and if Tinubu wins he will get one juicy position we'd start hearing that Tinubu has made men...idiots that can't function under any system where tomfoolery, patronage and thuggery are not the most valuable credentials.

larride:


Lol. As if Ambode didn't totally neglect Lagos state public work the agency in charge of road maintenance in the state and most of the existing roads were in deteriorating at a fast pace.

It's not as if Ambode neglected most of the projects he inherited from Fashola which Sanwo-Olu is now completing to the benefit of the masses.

You've never been known to be objective when it comes to Tinubu and Lagos APC though so its expected. Imagine propping up Ambode and calling Sanwo-Olu Ade pointer.

Theflint1:
One of Tinubu's intellectuals was on Arise TV today and the program had to be ended abruptly because he didn't know the meaning of "buoyed" and picked offence when the presenter used it

This tool was a former minister too...Tinubu has made men!

https://twitter.com/Makavelli275/status/1556682936627478529?t=Yl1xBLtcSuzy5QbOGG9Vpw&s=08

BlueRayDick:


Well, Ambode's problems were political and self inflicted. A Godfather installed Him and the Godfather removed him even when people were feeling the impact of his projects.

Ironically some of the people who turned against him were those in areas where he built infrastructures. Ambode built good roads, bridges linking communities in places like alimosho LGA but the party big wigs in those areas turned against him.... Why? Because the normal chop-I-chop arrangement on ground in those areas Ambode came to disrupt it.

A case in point is the PSP/VISIONSCAPE issue. LAWMA is in charge of waste management In Lagos and they have a kind-of private-public initiative in which private companies ( usually companies owned by party stalwarts in LGA's across the state) have waste disposal trucks, employ workers who go about collecting refuse on behalf of the LAWMA and these companies popularly referred to as PSP take their own share of the fees paid by Lagosians for waste disposal while government takes its own share as well.......So Ambode brought a totally new company called VISIONSCAPE to take over the job of these guys ( which ultimately means he's taking food off the table of the local politicians who own these companies)

It didn't take for long for them to sabotage the whole thing and dump refuse almost everywhere in the state just to show that the VISIONSCAPE idea will never work. When it was time to crucify Ambode, these guys supplied enough nails to nail him to the strongest cross.

In terms of performance Ambode did well such that even the Godfather's wife along with other two senators representing Lagos in the Senate actually endorsed him for second term based on his performance and infrastructural projects scattered all over the state. I mean as at March 2018 they were so sure the guy deserves a second term before "bàbà sọpé" NO ( See attached pictures of the senators where they endorsed him)

https://guardian.ng/politics/lagos-senators-council-chairmen-endorse-ambode-for-second-term

There's also this story of how Ambode after a phone call with Tinubu didn't end the call unknowingly and was complaining to people in the room about the man's constant demands and calling him "greedy" which obviously didn't go down well with his principal.

Maybe if Ambode had made less enemies he would still be a governor today and most of his political transgressions may have been forgiven , but we'll it is what it is. He made so much enemies and today Ade pointer is the governor busy patching road up and down Lagos and always flaunting it on Facebook as "Rehabilitation of roads"

Oasis007:




I'm beginning to understand BlueRayDick more. Dude is ready to paint and turn black to white, coz his hatred for Tinubu.

How can Someone based in Lagos rated Ambode over Sanwoolu?

Some Arguments just don't worth..... chikena.

larride:


Lol. I'm surprised you are surprised.

larride:


Do you even know who Shittu was? Most times you guys bask in ignorance and just spew whatever you see online without doing basic research.

Shittu that was actually an Attorney general of Oyo during the tenure of Ladoja is who you guys are calling thug or whatever.

Shittu was not even in AC or ACN and Tinubu cannot even claim to have given him any post. He was a CPC member before becoming a member of APC after the merger.

Meanwhile politics has give you guys the audacity to just insult and call anybody names you like. Someone who 95% of your family members cant boast of the height the man has reached in public service.

Rubbish.

Oasis007:




I'm beginning to understand BlueRayDick more. Dude is ready to paint and turn black to white, coz his of hatred for Tinubu.

How can Someone based in Lagos rated Ambode over Sanwoolu?

Some Arguments just don't worth..... chikena.

donjazet:
Can anyone here tell me why ambode was denied a second term? What was ambodes crime?

Did he fall afoul of godfatherism in Lagos?

Cc blueraydick, larride etc

Theflint1:
An attorney general that can't pass a high-school standard English test is the perfect example of someone who's risen through the ranks thanks to tomfoolery, patronage and thuggery...if you like ehn, cry from today till tomorrow because the idiot is better than everyone in your lineage . I'm not the one that told him not to know the meaning of "buoyed".

donjazet:
Can anyone here tell me why ambode was denied a second term? What was ambodes crime?

Did he fall afoul of godfatherism in Lagos?

Cc blueraydick, larride etc

larride:


Nobody is crying but if you think someone who went to law school, became a barrister and rose to become Attorney General is a thug because he doesn't know what buoyed means then I dont have anything to say to you.

Nevertheless it doesn't change the fact that the man has achieved more than 95% of those in your lineage. Not bad for a thug.

Theflint1:
Lol...I know why you've chosen to take this one personal sha . If you act like a thug, and do so publicly, people would call you out and rising through the ranks of the civil service (especially the Nigerian civil service) won't give you a pass...actually nothing would give you a pass

Theflint1:
Lol...I know why you've chosen to take this one personal sha . If you act like a thug, and do so publicly, people would call you out and rising through the ranks of the civil service (especially the Nigerian civil service) won't give you a pass...actually nothing would give you a pass

BlueRayDick:


The arrogance of the man is annoying honestly. He's a former minister of Communications, he doesn't understand what the "buoyed" means and all he could've done was to ask her rephrase her question to get a better understanding of what he thought she was asking ; he went off talking out of point and making accusations where there was need for none.

So Tinubu will win the election and somebody as dumb and heady as this man will be in either a ministry or a key agency and we will expect anything to change? He just wants to fight even when he does not know whether there's a reason to fight......smh. Na why people like Garba Shehu and Femi adeshina want to attack u the messenger without listening to Ur message sef.

Illimitable:


Somebody as dumb as Obi is running for presidency and you are supporting the movement.

Obi could only manage a pass from UNN(Philosophy) and he spent 9 years on a 4-year course.

While Obi’s classmates were studying hard, he was busy taking advice from mad men.

GloriousGbola:
There is a roundabout into festac. Third gate. The road went completely to shit in ambodes tenure. You would spend 2 hours navigating the roundabout. It was a nightmare. One of the first things sanwo did was visit personally. Today the roundabout is 90% fixed. There is still some traffic, but it is nowhere near the nightmare we used to face. Izzou can testify to that. That must be the road patching being spoken about

Do not remind me of Egypt, please.

I remember Trade fair too. One would spend 4 hours from Under bridge to Barracks.

I like Ambode oh, but berating Sanwo-Olu just to pass a point no follow at all

Sanwo-Olu worked. He has my thumb next year (unless Jandor promises me an SA post )

GloriousGbola:


First a bit of history

Ambode was accountant General in fasholas admin. For some issue Fashola sacked him. Tinubu intervened and Ambode was sent abroad for some training etc. Come 2015,fasholas anointed candidate was Femi hamzat, but Tinubu imposed ambode

Unfortunately Ambode came in as governor with an ax to grind

He did everything in his power to scuttle fasholas appointment as minister, including all sorts of very public probes of spend by the administration

He also embarked on a poorly thought out purge of people he considered loyal to fashola in the civil service. This meant that several people at the top of their careers and in important positions in lasg parastatals were sacked. A lot of institutional knowledge was thrown away

Ambode also did something we associate with other governments - he eliminated continuity and embarked on some white elephant ego driven projects.

He completely abandoned the lagos Badagry expressway

He embarked on the oshodi monstrosity. To this day I cannot say what it was meant to achieve. It is a huge and bizarre and for me ultimately Uselss structure.

He did some great stuff with slip roads and bus parks

Then we have visiion scape, a company based or brought in from dubai for environmental management. Ambode had a reputation for pride and not listening to counsel, and he basically bulldozed without any stakeholder engagement.

Visionscape may have succeeded in dubai, but it is one of those things that is a first world concept brought to a third world environment. And they simply did not have the capacity to manage lagos. They dropped several giant bins around lagos. I live along a road in festac with at least 12 closes. I think there was a total of 2 giant bins for 120 houses. So of course they were soon overflowing with rubbish. It was a complete disaster

Ambode also kept pushing for more revenue. He tried to push for increase in land use tax, also the toll on lekki phase 1 toll gate. Local governments also engaged in aggressive revenue collection. People would park in bank premises and still be disturbed for 'illegal parking'. We had the same issue where local government agents would basically entrap people.

I remember a colleague at the time saying Ambode would cost lagos APC if he was not careful.

Ambodes arrogance was legend in the civil service where he had the alausa chaplain sacked (apparently for being rude to his wife). The man was HATED in the civil service.

Then we had the phone call, which is basically the last straw that broke the camels back. The story is that it was not solely a decision by Tinubu but the inevitable outcome of ambodes poor people skills.

If you have any doubt about ambodes people skills, look at his 'worldwide' press conference after it was announced that sanwo olu would be contesting the primaries.

And a lot of us were pissed off by the spate of construction which had no alternate transport plans.

Today Ambode is only celebrated by the people who hate Tinubu and for that reason.

larride:


You are talking nonsense. The only reason you and the others are calling him a thug is because you guys think he's someone a Tinubu guy not knowing whatever he became in APC was because he was with Buhari in CPC.

Nowhere do you call a barrister who was a former attorney general of a state a thug. There is plenty videos of your idol Wike trashing talking and nobody has called him a thug here.

Politics do not confer the right to you to just insult or label anybody you dont like.

Theflint1:
I'd actually respect this thinking if you maintain this sort of energy across the board, whether it's for posts insulting APC, PDP or even LP characters, and not just for posts tackling APC guys, otherwise, fork outta my mentions with this silliness.

BlueRayDick:


This is Barrister shittu making a submission

larride:
Hopefully the blue line becomes operational by the end of the year as promised.

larride:


You can dig out my post where I was insulting any candidate whether in PDP or LP. You have the floor.

PDPGuy:

From next year, 4hr+ traffic on Lagos roads should be a thing of the past

larride:


That's the plan. The rail will hopefully decongest the road.

Theflint1:
And this is the man Larride claims is better than everyone from his lineage?

A damn shame!!!

izzou:

Theflint1:
You're lacking severely in comprehension...FOH!

GloriousGbola:


First a bit of history

Ambode was accountant General in fasholas admin. For some issue Fashola sacked him. Tinubu intervened and Ambode was sent abroad for some training etc. Come 2015,fasholas anointed candidate was Femi hamzat, but Tinubu imposed ambode

Unfortunately Ambode came in as governor with an ax to grind

He did everything in his power to scuttle fasholas appointment as minister, including all sorts of very public probes of spend by the administration

He also embarked on a poorly thought out purge of people he considered loyal to fashola in the civil service. This meant that several people at the top of their careers and in important positions in lasg parastatals were sacked. A lot of institutional knowledge was thrown away

Ambode also did something we associate with other governments - he eliminated continuity and embarked on some white elephant ego driven projects.

He completely abandoned the lagos Badagry expressway

He embarked on the oshodi monstrosity. To this day I cannot say what it was meant to achieve. It is a huge and bizarre and for me ultimately Uselss structure.

He did some great stuff with slip roads and bus parks

Then we have visiion scape, a company based or brought in from dubai for environmental management. Ambode had a reputation for pride and not listening to counsel, and he basically bulldozed without any stakeholder engagement.

Visionscape may have succeeded in dubai, but it is one of those things that is a first world concept brought to a third world environment. And they simply did not have the capacity to manage lagos. They dropped several giant bins around lagos. I live along a road in festac with at least 12 closes. I think there was a total of 2 giant bins for 120 houses. So of course they were soon overflowing with rubbish. It was a complete disaster

Ambode also kept pushing for more revenue. He tried to push for increase in land use tax, also the toll on lekki phase 1 toll gate. Local governments also engaged in aggressive revenue collection. People would park in bank premises and still be disturbed for 'illegal parking'. We had the same issue where local government agents would basically entrap people.

I remember a colleague at the time saying Ambode would cost lagos APC if he was not careful.

Ambodes arrogance was legend in the civil service where he had the alausa chaplain sacked (apparently for being rude to his wife). The man was HATED in the civil service.

Then we had the phone call, which is basically the last straw that broke the camels back. The story is that it was not solely a decision by Tinubu but the inevitable outcome of ambodes poor people skills.

If you have any doubt about ambodes people skills, look at his 'worldwide' press conference after it was announced that sanwo olu would be contesting the primaries.

And a lot of us were pissed off by the spate of construction which had no alternate transport plans.

Today Ambode is only celebrated by the people who hate Tinubu and for that reason.

larride:


Bring a man from your lineage who is a barrister and rise to become Attorney general of your state.

If not, gtfoh