OAM4J:


True.

That reminds me of this incident, how he dealt with a colonel on the BRT lane.

[img]https://dikechiedozie.files./2012/07/dike-chiedozies-blog-governor-fashola-accosts-colonel-driving-on-brt-lane.jpg?w=740[/img]

Fashola is a very disciplined man, even he as a Governor was not using BRT lane, and he was not always with those ceremonial convoy.

I have said it many times on this forum that I didnt support the emergence of Fashola, I campaigned for Jimi Agbaje in 2007. But Fashola's performance and his intelligence while addressing key and sensitive issues during his 1st term in office won my heart and made him my best governor till date.

I am not for or against what is happening to Ambode. Even though he was not the preferred candidate for Fashola, after he won the party primary, Fashola followed his campaign train everywhere, only for him to get to office and started to rubbish Fashola. There was a time he even accused Fashola of deliberately delaying the concession of airport road and transfer of some of the old FG assets in Lagos to the state government, before Fashola came out to explain the true position of things.... Ambode forgot the Yoruba proverb that "the cane used to drive away the 1st wife, is only hidden under the bed, ready to be used to drive away the new wife".

Anyways, I wish Ambode luck.

Ambode had the opportunity to build on what Fashola did. Instead, he went on a witch hunt of “everything BRF” from suspected human agents to supposed BRF legacy projects. In the process, he turned simple solutions to complex problems. Ever coming, never arriving. Time for Change?



https://punchng.com/lagos-gov-poll-twitter-users-bash-residents-over-ambode-tinubu-dispute/

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Matters Arising On Ambode’s Pettiness Of Replacing Gani Fawehinmi’s Statue Built By Fashola At Ojota
Posted by Admin On April 22, 2018 0 Comment




One of the highpoints of the administration of former Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, (SAN) was the reclamation of abandoned public spaces inhabited by hoodlums and transforming them into recreation parks or landmark sites to honour living heroes or past giants who made Lagos proud.

Fashola honoured the late legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi,(SAN) and developed Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota popular known as Freedom Park and erected a statue of the Ondo-born Senior Advocate of the masses to immortalise the struggles of the fierce human rights fighter and the primus defender of the downtrodden.

The civil society community and human rights activists who were in the trenches to fight for the rights of the oppressed hailed Fashola for honouring Gani and for providing a spacious, strategic location where protesters can gather and ventilate their anger on the recklessness of the political class and other obnoxious public policies.

Gani Fawehinmi park made global headlines in January 2012 during the Occupy Nigeria petrol subsidy removal protest against the government of former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Aluta spirit of Gani was invoked at Ojota as thousands of citizens brought the government on its kneels.

The incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode never left anyone in doubt that he is on a mission to demolish Fashola’s legacies immediately he assumed office.

The Gani Fawehinmi park ‘remodeling’ was one of the needless projects he embarked just to undo Fashola whose fame had gone global as a great performer.

Under the guise of curious remodeling, Ambode removed the statue of Gani built by Fashola and replaced it with his own just to score cheap political point.

The unveiling of Ambode’s version of Gani Fawehinmi’s statue is scheduled for tomorrow, Sunday April 22 to commemorate Gani’s 80th post humous birthday.

Ambode spent three years to build an unnecessary statue just to spite his predecessor.

I often queried the administrative acumen of the governor whenever i passed through Ojota and saw the removed Fashola’s version of Gani’s statue at the base of the platform which the new statue stands. Yet, we are told Ambode attended Harvard University.

What sense does it make to replace a statue of the same icon which is not damaged and which was less than five years!

Statues are built to last for decades.

It is sheer waste of scarce resources and misplacement of priorities.

Ambode’s politics of statues also got him into trouble when he decked a dandy sage, Chief Obafemi Awolowo in a native Agbada with a laced safety booth to match. What an anathema!

The project was another vain and ego trip embarked by the governor.

On that same stretch of Obafemi Awolowo way, Ikeja, there is another statue of the sage apart from the one inside the Awolowo House close to Ikeja under bridge.

Worst still, Ambode has always kept a sealed lips over what the needless statues cost the tax payers.

He has repeatedly turned down Freedom of Information request to divulge the costs of the statues and other funfair ‘projects’ like Lagos at 50 celebrations and other carnivals that had arguable gulped billions.

If Ambode is bereft of ideas of how to immortalize icons, he should halt the shameless replication of statues all around town.

If Gani was alive, he would have rejected governor’s wasteful Greek project in solidarity with masses who are groaning under the inept leadership of Ambode.

A governor whose under his watch a city which had relatively conquered filth in the last decade slumped to become the dirtiest state in the country cannot be a friend of finicky Gani.

The public should therefore see through the bare-faced hypocrisy and vindictiveness of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode and reject his greek gift to Gani.

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Maxymilliano:
Eko Ile and his usual destructive posts syndrome .

Was surprised you didn't label Ambode IPod as you are wont to do.

FYI, Ambode would be re-elected governor of Lagos State under APC ...

deomelo:
[s][/s]



Not interested in your ignorant and unintelligent ipob rubbish.



Worry more about your backward and unproductive ipob village

Maxymilliano:


� ... Your usual stuff.

I should worry about my place at Abraham Adesanya estate in Lekki or my place at Ota ?

Alawada I thought sense would have catched up with you by now, I doubt if you no Jack about happening in Apc in Lagos and Ogun State.

Anyway I enjoy!

deomelo:
[s][/s]



Not interested in your ignorant and unintelligent ipob rubbish.



Worry more about your backward and unproductive ipob village

Maxymilliano:


Eko Ile aka Aresa aka deomelo has always been Arindin/slowpoke of the first order, may be I should mention Jmaine, your major traducer on this forum to come and school you once again in the art

deomelo:




The same people have been mocking and insulting Lagos state all over the place, they gleefully post every negative news about Lagos and always let us know how dirty Lagos is, but the hypocrites all of a sudden are in Love with Ambode because they hate Tinubu.


One labeled Ambode the lousiest and worst governor in the history of Lagos state just last month, but all of a sudden Ambode is the best governor ever this month

These are pathetic liars and dishonest people

deomelo:
[s][/s]


Not interested in your ignorant and unintelligent ipob rubbish.



Worry more about your backward and unproductive ipob village

tiredoflife:
So in all these post
There is no picture to show ambode did anything

Maxymilliano:


You are just as empty as it comes .. This is your thread and I pushed it a bit for you.

Come where Gbawe dey ?

Maxymilliano:


Eko Ile aka Aresa aka deomelo has always been Arindin/slowpoke of the first order, may be I should mention Jmaine, your major traducer on this forum to come and school you once again in the art

jmaine:


Lolz.. So you know it is him as well.. He is chameleon that can't deceive much..

OAM4J:


True.

That reminds me of this incident, how he dealt with a colonel on the BRT lane.

[img]https://dikechiedozie.files./2012/07/dike-chiedozies-blog-governor-fashola-accosts-colonel-driving-on-brt-lane.jpg?w=740[/img]

Fashola is a very disciplined man, even he as a Governor was not using BRT lane, and he was not always with those ceremonial convoy.

I have said it many times on this forum that I didnt support the emergence of Fashola, I campaigned for Jimi Agbaje in 2007. But Fashola's performance and his intelligence while addressing key and sensitive issues during his 1st term in office won my heart and made him my best governor till date.

I am not for or against what is happening to Ambode. Even though he was not the preferred candidate for Fashola, after he won the party primary, Fashola followed his campaign train everywhere, only for him to get to office and started to rubbish Fashola. There was a time he even accused Fashola of deliberately delaying the concession of airport road and transfer of some of the old FG assets in Lagos to the state government, before Fashola came out to explain the true position of things.... Ambode forgot the Yoruba proverb that "the cane used to drive away the 1st wife, is only hidden under the bed, ready to be used to drive away the new wife".

Anyways, I wish Ambode luck.

udemzy101:
The Yorubas are their own worst enemies, and they like eye service a lot.

Fashola Commissions First Of Its Kind State Digital Mapping/Geographic Information System (GIS)