Just when you think the peoples democratic party (pdp) will concentrate and channel all its energies, in resolving and salvaging the remaining of its beleagueredly self inflicted and implosive schism that led to the now break away faction, tentatively nomenclasized as the 'new PDP' (nPDP), spearheaded by seven renegade governors, the very loquaciously shambolic pdp national publicity secretary chief Olisa Metuh (witheout a mettle) spewed another sequence of overt gilbrish to herald his charade of a re-election for which pdp is yet to recover.
His latest incoherently intemporate verbosite against Governor Tunde Fashola is to surrepticiouslyyet subtle (to him anyway) attack him, and in the process announcing his second coming as the arrow head of pdp spin doctors.
For Nigerians, his outburst expecially when it is unnecessary is not new. This is characteristic of his ignominous reign before he was forced to resign along other pdp NWC. His unbriddled urge to juncket his tongue for no just cause, is a further demonstration that metuh is still a rookie in his newly found assignment despite his previous stint at the job.
It has become symtomatic of most pdp lackeys, to display their vile, nauseating and deeply repugnant verbiage against fashola, even when it is obvious the discussion has nothing to do with governance in lagos.
The mechaniacal silence, by the highly and innately articulate Lai Mohammed, the APC publicity secretary, is the least expected yet very tactical. He must have felt among other things, that metuh chose the very wrong personality and tactics to kick start his second coming. This, i must say, has really worked judging by the tens of objurgators that have voiced their displeasure.
In his interview of september 10, 2013 with journalist in abuja, perchance, still basking in the euphoria of his bogus mini convention, he was asked;
What is your view on the six governors that broke away from the mainstream of your party?
Metuh: As governors of our party, they have done so well in their respective states. They have used the resources available to them judiciously for development purposes. My grouse with them is that they should have shown same commitment used in developing their respective states to the development of our party. No doubt, the PDP is proud of them, the only challenge before us is that they should show commitment and love for the party too. As far as I am concerned, when one looks at the popularity being enjoyed by Governor Babatunde Fashola in Lagos, one will want to believe that he is the best governor in the present dispensation whereas he is not, compared to some of the PDP governors. With the high Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, in Lagos and the publicity enjoyed by the Lagos State government, I didn’t see the effect when I arrived Lagos. It is almost 10 years that I left Lagos, but I have not seen much difference.
In the light of his response, it is starkly conspicuous that the question was copiously clear and had no nexus with fashola. He however, chose to link the response to BRF using implausible sophistry and subterfuge with deeply routed and sited hate, odium and animosity against the governor.
A proper decryption of his response, a fallacy ad hominem, the following should suffice.
1. While the pdp goverment at the center wallow in intellectual indolence completely bereft of how to raise the nations revenue outside oil, fashola has raised the IGR from a paltry 600million naira a month under his immediate predecessor to 30 billion naira a month in ten years. That is almost 400% increment.
2. Metuh also posited that, he has not seen any change in the last 10years.
In as much i would not want to engage in the same platitudes as to stating the achievements, but it is likewise expedient to say, for contentious purposes, lets play the omnipotent and turn back the hand of time with the underlisted.
a. Were Oshodi, Obalende, yaba, surulere, ago palace, western avenue, apapa and lagos CBD etc the way they were 10years ago? yet the aorta of the nation's economy in terms of physical infrastructure (roads) the oshodi apapa port express way and Lagos-Ibadan road, two of which account for the largest intra and inter vehicular traffic respectively in the entire nation yet, they both remain impassible and parlous over 10 years of the pdp misgovernance.
b. Has he suddenly forgotten how filthy Lagos was 10years ago. Its unsanitary status and total lawlessness necessitated formal president Obasanjo to call Lagos 'a jungle city'. Yet the same pdp administration could not offer any solution either in policy formulation or finance except name calling. This singular action by OBJ, trended across the world which eventually led to Lagos being called the dirtiest city in the world.
If metuh could not truthfully see, then he must be suffering from an incurable serious glaucoma.
Also, he had hitherto, in one of his treatise, compared Lagos to oil-rich Niger delta states controlled by the pdp. He mentioned Akwa ibom. Without taking anything away from the acclaimed performance of Gov. Akpabio which i applaud also, the following axioms should be the metric.
The entire economy of Akwa ibom is a microcosm of Lagos. Just one Local goverment in Lagos is larger in GDP, population ditto infrastructuralneeds than the entire length and breadth of Akwa ibom. An instance is Apapa Lga. Out of six functional ports in Nigeria, 3 are in Apapa alone. A substantial amount of VAT collected by the FG in Lagos comes from that L.G.A, for which Lagos contributes 65% of the entire VAT.
This volume of trade has its own resulting and ever bourgening human, physical and economic infrastructuralburden that seriously bleed the pulse of the state without any corresponding benefit. No thanks to our jaundiced and lopsided federalism.
I challenge metuh, to name any other place in Akwa ibom outside Oron and Uyo that is worthy of mentioning. As such, there is no need for the baseless and illogical comparism.
Lagos today, is a very vibrant city-state with over 17million people. New York is a city of 10million people with a budget of 132.6 billion USD for 2012. Sao paulo is the financial and commercial capital of Brazil just like Lagos. Its budget averages 20 billion USD since 2005 with about 10 million people. The city of frankfurt is the financial center of Germany. It has the same GDP of 81 billion USD with Lagos. Its annual budget is over 40 billion USD. In Africa, johannesburg has a population of about 5million with over 6billion USD budget in 2012 among several well articulated aids from the central goverment being the formal capital. Lagos with a population of 17 million people (the 6th largest in the world), with no federal aid as the formal capital, has a budget of 3 billion USD in 2013. It takes a seldom ingenuity to run such an economy. Recently, Lagos emerged as the only city that is simultaneously implementing 5 major world class transport infrastructure.These are ikorodu- mile 12 expansion to 8lanes with a BRT in the median, lekki-epe 8lane expansion, lagos-badagry 10lanes expansion, 27km light rail with 13 world class train terminal and the mile 2, badore and osborn jetty.
There is no gainsaying, the PDP and its co-travellers along its intellectually effete president, see fashola's performance and the propensity of his emergence as the opposition presidential candidate as a threat. Hence, the unnecessary vituperation by the blabber mouth to commonize is achievement as nothing worthy of note.
I urge the PDP spokesman to look into his own eyes and remove the speck before that of another.
Else, we say anathema maranatha.

Good lord !!!!!! See the PDP being finished, b1tch-slapped and educated at the same time !!!! Olisa Metuh, why na ? Why, why, why? Why , with your silly and near-illiterate rant, have you now exposed your Party and your President to this level of merciless 'schooling'?

Lagos today, is a very vibrant city-state with over 17million people. New York is a city of 10million people with a budget of 132.6 billion USD for 2012. Sao paulo is the financial and commercial capital of Brazil just like Lagos. Its budget averages 20 billion USD since 2005 with about 10 million people. The city of frankfurt is the financial center of Germany. It has the same GDP of 81 billion USD with Lagos. Its annual budget is over 40 billion USD. In Africa, johannesburg has a population of about 5million with over 6billion USD budget in 2012 among several well articulated aids from the central goverment being the formal capital. Lagos with a population of 17 million people (the 6th largest in the world), with no federal aid as the formal capital, has a budget of 3 billion USD in 2013. It takes a seldom ingenuity to run such an economy. Recently, Lagos emerged as the only city that is simultaneously implementing 5 major world class transport infrastructure.These are ikorodu- mile 12 expansion to 8lanes with a BRT in the median, lekki-epe 8lane expansion, lagos-badagry 10lanes expansion, 27km light rail with 13 world class train terminal and the mile 2, badore and osborn jetty.
There is no gainsaying, the PDP and its co-travellers along its intellectually effete president, see fashola's performance and the propensity of his emergence as the opposition presidential candidate as a threat. Hence, the unnecessary vituperation by the blabber mouth to commonize is achievement as nothing worthy of note.
I urge the PDP spokesman to look into his own eyes and remove the speck before that of another.
Else, we say anathema maranatha.

Do not mind them jare.
Those intellectually deficient cavemen.
I visited Lagos last year after spending 10yrs overseas and It was WOW.
apart from overpopulation comprising of too many unskilled labour and the persistent animal behaviour being Exhibited on the street,
Lagos has been seriously upgraded .
I wonder why the tinubu and fashola have not taken the federal government to court over the derivation principle.
The port is a natural resource ,just like crude oil
The fact that the position of Lagos remain unchallenged is a plus to tinubu and fashola.
They are a gift to humanity especially when you consider that Only 25% of Lagos budget is funded through allocation .
It is history repeating itself when money from the SW was used to fund the other regions and parts of the British empire in west Africa .

You people should stop bandying lagos population figures as if Fashola do feed the residents of Lagos.The huge population of lagos rather is a plus for the state because of the huge tax derived therein.

Olisah Metuh and his ilks are some of the worst thing to ever happen to party organisation in Nigeria.......their mode of politics is built upon telling lies shamelessly without caution.

Only a person without the fear of God will say Lagos has not changed for good in the past ten years.





PDP is a dead party.

chukwudi44: You people should stop bandying lagos population figures as if Fashola do feed the residents of Lagos.The huge population of lagos rather is a plus for the state because of the huge tax derived therein.

That's not correct. A large no of the population of Lagos is unskilled labor who earn an informal income that's very difficult to tax. To start with, a lot of such immigrants engage in illegal activities (such as street trading) and barely feed from hand to mouth. What % of the regular income earners even pay tax?

The consequence of having such unskilled labor is the overstretching of public utilities such as roads, waste disposal systems, environmental abuse (opening up shops in every available space), high crime rates which necessitates huge investments in security etc.

The best thing a serious national party (definitely not the irresponsible & chaotic PDP) can do if it comes to power is to engage in aggressive development of the states so as to discourage migration to Lagos, Abuja and PH.

There are simply too many people in Lagos for its space and resources.

Eledan: Olisah Metuh and his ilks are some of the worst thing to ever happen to party organisation in Nigeria.......their mode of politics is built upon telling lies shamelessly without caution.

Only a person without the fear of God will say Lagos has not changed for good in the past ten years.





PDP is a dead party.

Walahi it will forever better for you and your generation unborn.
May i hear you say Amin

chukwudi44: You people should stop bandying lagos population figures as if Fashola do feed the residents of Lagos.The huge population of lagos rather is a plus for the state because of the huge tax derived therein.

chukwudi or Wetin be your name. i know you're 'ajekuta mamumi' (ibo). go to your southeast, combining all the states that embodied it, the development ratio is far less than that of lagos. no wonder you people no get house. a bigoted set of individuals.

bloggernaija: Do not mind them jare.
Those intellectually deficient cavemen.
I visited Lagos last year after spending 10yrs overseas and It was WOW.
apart from overpopulation comprising of too many unskilled labour and the persistent animal behaviour being Exhibited on the street,
Lagos has been seriously upgraded .
I wonder why the tinubu and fashola have not taken the federal government to court over the derivation principle.
The port is a natural resource ,just like crude oil
The fact that the position of Lagos remain unchallenged is a plus to tinubu and fashola.
They are a gift to humanity especially when you consider that Only 25% of Lagos budget is funded through allocation .
It is history repeating itself when money from the SW was used to fund the other regions and parts of the British empire in west Africa .

You are deluded a port is not a natural resource. 95% of nigeria economy is dependent on crude oil which comes from the Niger delta. there is nothing i SW thats sustaining the nation. rather the Niger delta are the ones that sustain this country with their resources.

BTW since the economy is dependent on crude oil the IGR is also dependent on crude so the IGR that lagos pride itself on will be non existent without crude from Niger delta.