A Facebook post by one Tokunbo AremoOdua has been shared across other platforms and forwarded on WhatsApp many times.

The post claimed that the All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu initiated ECONET, Treasury Single Account (TSA), tax digitalization, Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) and economic summit to proffer solutions for economic prosperity in Nigeria.

It also claimed that Tinubu was the first and last governor to govern his state for years without federal allocation during the Obasanjo Administration.

As of the time of this report, the post had amassed about 317 likes, 69 shares, and 247 comments and has reached multiple groups on WhatsApp.

Verification

Checks by Daily Trust revealed that while Tinubu played a role in the evolution of ECONET in Lagos State, it does not mean he brought ECONET to Nigeria.

He was Governor of Lagos State when the federal government auctioned the telecommunication network through the Nigeria Communication Commission.

Lagos was mentioned as one of the two states that supported the licence fee financially.

Victor Asemota, a popular tech twitter influencer also stated that “Lagos state was only involved in its founding through the acquisition of secondary shares, after much deliberations.

The then governor did not commit to Cybertel until after Delta State, Oceanic and the Akwa Ibom State government had gotten involved.”

Also the claim that Tinubu introduced the TSA in Nigeria is false.

Rather, it was proposed by the federal government in 2012 during the former President Goodluck Jonathan-led administration and was fully implemented by the current administration to consolidate all inflows from all agencies of government into a single account at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

Similarly, the claim that the former Lagos State governor started the economic summit in Nigeria is not true.

The Nigeria Economic Summit Group was incorporated in 1996 by Chief Ernest Shonekan.

The claim that Tinubu created the independent power project in the country is equally false.

It was introduced by the federal government to combat the power shortage in the country.

Daily Trust also found the claim that Tinubu was the first and last governor to govern his state (Lagos) for years without federal allocation misleading.

The then former President Olusegun Obasanjo-led government only withheld the local government funds of Lagos State when Tinubu created LCDAs against the approval of the federal government.

However, a claim in the post that Tinubu pioneered LCDA is true

Conclusion

Daily Trust can confirm that while it is true that Tinubu created LCDA, he was not the pioneer of other initiatives contained in the claims made by the author of the post. Therefore, the claims are largely false.

This fact check was done in partnership with the Center for Democracy and Development (CDD)

https://dailytrust.com/fact-check-did-tinubu-pioneer-econet-tsa-economic-summit-in-nigeria

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Keep bursting their lies while we obediently Atikulate

I can tell you for free that whatever claim you see or hear about tinubu doing this or that, is either half truth, full lies, falsifications, or just baseless.

For years now, the masses have been fed with bull crap that president obasanjo held the full Lagos state allocation. Meanwhile what was held was the allocation to local governments due to the 20 illegal Lcda's Created by tinubu then.

Keep bursting the lies of the drug lord and his online rascals.

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They don't have anything to campaign with that is why they were lying up and down. A person who could not provide his elementary certificate will pioneer multinational corporations. I laugh out loud......
Abeg, youths should wake up.

ONE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THIS FELLOW AND THE Daily Trust OR WHICHEVER NEWS MEDIA WAS SPREADING MISINFORMATION OF SELF DEMERIT AND DISCREDIT.

They claimed he did not pioneer the LCDA, yet did not indicate who did.
Which other state government in the history of Nigeria governed without FEDERAL ALLOCATION for any given period. Even if for a day.

The then governor did not commit to Cybertel until after Delta State, Oceanic and the Akwa Ibom State government had gotten involved.”
Lagos was mentioned as one of the two states that supported the licence fee financially.The claim that Tinubu created the independent. YET DID NOT GET INVOLED ND NON COMMITED. What a watery senseless argument.

Independent power project in the country is equally false.
It was introduced by the federal government to combat the power shortage in the country. WHO DID AND I AM TOO CERTAIN THAT BOTH Daily Trust AND THE Victor Asemota MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT Enron AND Tinubu's LAGOS WITH THE POWER BERGES THAT THE Otta BRUTE CONFISCATED DUE TOO UNHEALTHY ENVY WITH AN UNWHOLSEOME MENTALITY OF OBJ WHO STOPPED THE PRIVATE POWER PROJECT INITIATIVE OF Tinubu.

HALF-SMART DUNCES WITH THE OUTPOST OF HALF WIT SHOULD GET THEIR LAZY BRAINS OFF THEIR BUTTS AND DO SOME FINDINGS BEFORE DISPALYING SEL RIDICULE THAT MAKES THEM LOOK STUPID.

I can understand the IGNORANCE of a Victor Asemota. The gross MISINFORMATION of a newspaper is both ignoble self-indicting and MISCHIEVIOUS.

Combined buffoonery, would you not say!

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Asiwaju, the slayer of mpukumiri addicts. is one of the greatest politician ever. As it stands, he is the most mentioned politician in Africa. A forward thinker and a master strategist

Tinubu, Modern architect of Lasgidi . This man carefully masterminded the defeat of a ruling party. That is why Meth addicts hated him like he's the architect of IPOD terrorism. You got our support come rain come sunshine

We already knew he was lying

Jagaban, the slayer of mpukumiri addicts . This is almost the 1000th thread opened about him on Nairaland this year alone. The man that singlehandedly reformed policing in Lagos by bringing the RRS which has til today been the most equipped and best police division in the country. That is exactly why we are supporting this man

mascot87:
Fact check on nairaland is fast losing it's credibility. Lying fact check

Coz, this one didn't go your way

mbaboy:
Keep bursting their lies while we obediently Atikulate

So the real Pdp supporters are actually different from those who just exited the party.

Tinubu omo olodo ide . This man carefully masterminded the defeat of a ruling party. That is why Meth addicts hated him like he's the architect of IPOD terrorism. The only governor that consistently challenged the federal powers in his era as governor. The man who took the FG to court and made sure he created LCDAs to make government closer to people which is what many states copied now. A forward thinker

Asiwaju omo olodo ide will be the president no matter what. Please advise children of hate not to hate on a man that God favors

Asiwaju omo hide hidey. He hides everything, you can’t get anything straight about our president-to-be. He hides certificates, hides his age, hides his Vice Presidential nominee.
The only thing he doesn’t hide is that it is his turn to be president lol.

Liars everywhere

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APCnaPDP:
Asiwaju omo hide hidey. He hides everything, you can’t get anything straight about our president-to-be. He hides certificates, hides his age, hides his Vice Presidential nominee.
The only thing he doesn’t hide is that it is his turn to be president lol.

Very funny.