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PICTURES WOULD HAVE HELP$

skedman:
The only thing you forgot is that lagos is witnessing growth not because it was formerly a capital but because of the caliber of people that is ruling it. You cant compare ambode with fayose in terms intelligence,exposure they are two different things let us rule out sentiment .if fayose was given the chance to rule lagos .lagos will be worse than that of ekiti that is just the fact

BabaRamota1980:
Where is the flyover or bridge before i comment?

OP, you are accurate. The development crusade in Lagos started with Jakande, but he was handicapped by opposition, NPN, and then by military take over. Tinubu took many playbooks to create what we have today in Lagos. He may not dress like Awo but he took a lot from the Awo Doctrines on capitalism and socialism. His successes on capitalism outweighed the many infrastructures in socialism. The handover of the ruling template, commonly called passing of the baton, was used by Awo in the Western Region. An incumbent packages a State of State report and hand it over to the incoming administration. The new administration must either implement whats on the book or propose an improvement that carries more benefits and aesthetics than the one given to him. Tinubu monetized a lot of public services to generate money from which he funded the social programmes. That tradition has continued successfully. It has become expectation that Lagos State will provide certain services and when they don't people call in with complaints and the govt responds. There is no other state that has this. So when the state introduce a new levy people grumble and complain but they pay it. At the end the benefit is passed back to them in public service. Through this exchange and expectations the state has grown its riches exponentially.

If care is not taken Lagos will earn more than Nigeria in the next 10yrs or less when tje two ports of Lekki and Badagry go commercial. The opportunity is immense!

By the time Ambode completes 8yrs Tinubu will no longer need to be involved. He can retire. The machine will run and self-oil itself. He just tested that possibility not long ago when he announced to the state party leaders that if you have been there 10yrs or more don't contest, yield for new contestants to show face and occupy roles. He is testing and preparing the ground for his own exit. I believe Ambode will likely be replacement for Tinubu.

So you are correct, while the interior adopted Awo's Doctrine in form, Lagos practiced them in substance.

Currently Lagos has built a credit worthiness powerful enough that it can contract Berger or some other consortium to link Nigeria with a super-highway and it will get done. Other states cant even connect the length and breadth of their border with a highway, it will be out of their reach financially.

People should stop the comparison.

Having said that I must now ask if indeed there is any practical relevance to a state or city erecting a flyover?

Lagos has a functional need for the many bridges and flyovers it has. Some cities just put one up for aesthetic or to join the flyover gang without a true need for it.

If a city must put up infrastructure bridge should not be the default structure. There are cities with a high water table, or even lakes and rivers, how about building a viaduct or hydroelectric dam to generate electricity for local consumption, or to serve as irrigating channels for agricultural expansions. They can also setup a water treatment plant and pipe water to homes. These are public services from which the city can generate revenue and attract population to flourish, which increase the IGR exponentially.

There is no reason why Ekiti, with all its hills and valleys and streams, lakes and rivers does not have one or two dams for functional delivery of public service.

enm:


Thank you and God bless you for your reply. If nairalander can discuss issue the way you just did just imagine what nairaland would turn to.

You raise some factors which i said i don't to delve into in my writeup because of the drama it will generate defeating the intended purpose of my write up which is we should not put all state on the same level.

As stated Lagos has some advantage which other state does not have, the political advantage of being the former capital which mean the Federal government in the time past put some effort into developing Lagos into a position befitting her status as the federal capital and lucky enough for Lagos jakande came along the buba marwa and tinubu till ambode . Another advantage that play in favour of Lagos is her economic advantage over others and also being a major gateway centre of the country.

Some people may want to argue about other state with port and crude oil but my question is if those state had receive the same attention from the then Federal government as Lagos will Lagos be the only state with such financial capacity? Please don't get me wrong that am in support of the wrongs going on some of those state, sometimes i wish means to deal with those governors.

My opinion in term of development and provision of infrastructures in other state should not be put on the same level with Lagos. State should be assessed and judged base on their capacity not base on the capacity of a sister state. We should not look things from the angle of political party affiliation.

Today we are hailing aregbe for some of the infrastructures but deep in my heart when i consider the cost and the debt the state is in right now i feel pity for the next incoming governor except oil price goes, the next incoming governor of that state will be seriously hamper in carrying out his or her campaign promises.

Your last two paragraph sum it all on how ekiti can improve there lot and i alluded to the vast arable land in ekiti in my write up. Its all good on paper but this things also need some financial muscle which ekiti is seriously lacking.

yarimo:
FAYOSE is the most dubious and fraudulent governor in nigeria, the ekiti state flyover that he is claiming as achievements to his government is sub- standard .

skedman:
The only thing you forgot is that lagos is witnessing growth not because it was formerly a capital but because of the caliber of people that is ruling it. You cant compare ambode with fayose in terms intelligence,exposure they are two different things let us rule out sentiment .if fayose was given the chance to rule lagos .lagos will be worse than that of ekiti that is just the fact

skedman:
The only thing you forgot is that lagos is witnessing growth not because it was formerly a capital but because of the caliber of people that is ruling it. You cant compare ambode with fayose in terms intelligence,exposure they are two different things let us rule out sentiment .if fayose was given the chance to rule lagos .lagos will be worse than that of ekiti that is just the fact

GavelSlam:


Ekiti always boasts of its high intellectual/educational base and the best they could come.up with was Fayose.

With such intellectuals, one would have assumed patents, industries, high-tech agricultural domains would dote the landscape.

Ekiti wants to tell us the leadership of Fayose, if not the best, was adequate, and for me, that is an insult on their so-called academic prowess.
Not just because of his limited education, but for the fact that nothing of any significance was achieved under his rule.

To claim paucity of funds, can only mean Ekiti hasnt learnt to harness from the resources- human and capital that abounds.