..... Lagosians still love Ambode

By Dennis Okorie

"The commissioning of the 1.2 kilometre Agege Pen Cinema bridge shows that, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the National Leader of the ruling, All Progressives Congress, (APC), is indeed at loss on how to justify, his political break down with immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode FCA.

"The Pen Cinema bridge is one of the biggest public road infrastructure delivered by the Lagos State government, and Tinubu must strategically explain to teeming Lagos residents why Ambode who is the initiator of the project and the man who took the project to eighty percent, was not offered a second term. This must have weighed heavy on Tinubu hence his self shielding false statement, that Lagos State administration was drifting to the left under Ambode and the duo of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat who were recruited to right this drift; Tinubu’s submission is a bold lie.

"I recall his statement when in year 2017, when in his honour the then Ambode administration commissioned over 21 kilometres network of roads and bridges in Alimosho local government. Tinubu's words ..... I do not doubt the capabilities and intellectual strength of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to perform as Lagos State Governor, but I was gravely worried because no matter how capable and intelligent a man is without funds, he cannot perform, Lagos financial position was grave when Ambode took charge. Today I say boldly Ambode has however allayed my fears. Ambode is meticulously planning, intelligently executing and tenaciously delivering for the peoples of Lagos State..... So when did Ambode drift and to where," Barrister Mutiu Ogundele submitted.

Ediale James Ayemere in his submission said, Bola Tinubu cannot divert the attention of Lagos tax payers and residents from giving credit to whom it is due, on the Pen Cinema bridge and other legacy projects of the Akinwunmi Ambode led administration, as it comes on stream.

"In a highly sophisticated society like Lagos, we know that in four years Mr Akinwunmi Ambode indeed made Lagos work for all Lagosians, and the drift was positive, pro people and pro Lagos. Two years after he left office his service signatures are yet bringing up statewide. This administration will either be commissioning, recommissioning or branding and rebranding, the Ambode administration projects and initiatives. Tinubu has nothing to say about Ambode than to attempt justify the political break down between them, as not coming from his side."

"We are all aware that the whole gamut of political caucuses in Lagos State had endorsed Akinwunmi Ambode for second term, the records are there in public domain, before hawks around Tinubu begin to feed him with reasons why Ambode should not be allowed to go for second term and he fell for it. He is yet at pain to explain his real motivations, but he must realise that Lagosians and Nigerians at large are not carried away with the tepid excuses he gave, and Ambode has become the standard of public office holders in Nigeria are being measured. Is it not ironic and poetic that the whole of Lagos political establishment congregated to commission the project by the man, who they accused of not following the Lagos master plan, please is the Agege Pen Cinema bridge part of the plan." Dr Mrs Rebecca Afolabi stated.

Nothing to justify Ambode’s second term denial. Tinubu's dark alley attempt to rewrite history shows that he is a man on self serving agenda. It will be recalled that PM News reported in 2018 that Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo warned leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State against the dire consequences of denying the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode a second term, saying there was absolutely nothing to justify such move.

Osinbajo in 2018 handed down the warning at a meeting of the Governors Advisory Council (GAC), the highest advisory body in the Lagos APC.


The Vice President had looked at them (the GAC members) straight in the face and told them ‘you Assembly members here, you have endorsed Ambode before; GAC members, you have endorsed Ambode before; You Femi Gbajabiamila, you brought all your House of Reps members to endorse Ambode; the Lagos State Senate caucus endorsed Ambode, the whole world know that you have endorsed Ambode and all of a sudden, what shall we tell the world now that Ambode has done wrong all of a sudden after all the endorsements that you have made to warrant your current position?

“The VP queried them further that will it be enough to tell the whole world that it is for our own selfish interest that we are saying that we are not going to endorse Ambode? Is it because Ambode has not performed? Ambode has performed and everybody knows that he has performed,” the source quoted Osinbajo to have told them.
“The VP told them that in the eyes of the populace, he (Ambode) has done well and so what is it that we are now going to tell the whole world the reason for saying we are not going to support Ambode? So, does it now mean that our own personal interest should be considered larger than the interest of the masses and the State,” he said.

Tinubu, at the meeting was said to have responded that all politics was local and later threatened that he will take the incubent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the party’s secretariat on Acme Road, Ogba to raise his hand as the candidate of the party, or quit the party.
"This history is what Tinubu attempts to rewrite while commissioning the very project initiated by the man who he claimed did not follow his master plan." Olanrewaju Timothy offered.
Lagosians will no longer be deceived by the Chief deceiver-in-chief Bola Tinubu. They still love Ambode and know where their bread is buttered and they will show it come 2023

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..... Lagosians still love Ambode

By Dennis Okorie

"The commissioning of the 1.2 kilometre Agege Pen Cinema bridge shows that, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu the National Leader of the ruling, All Progressives Congress, (APC), is indeed at loss on how to justify, his political break down with immediate past Governor of Lagos State, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode FCA.

"The Pen Cinema bridge is one of the biggest public road infrastructure delivered by the Lagos State government, and Tinubu must strategically explain to teeming Lagos residents why Ambode who is the initiator of the project and the man who took the project to eighty percent, was not offered a second term. This must have weighed heavy on Tinubu hence his self shielding false statement, that Lagos State administration was drifting to the left under Ambode and the duo of Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Obafemi Hamzat who were recruited to right this drift; Tinubu’s submission is a bold lie.

"I recall his statement when in year 2017, when in his honour the then Ambode administration commissioned over 21 kilometres network of roads and bridges in Alimosho local government. Tinubu's words ..... I do not doubt the capabilities and intellectual strength of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to perform as Lagos State Governor, but I was gravely worried because no matter how capable and intelligent a man is without funds, he cannot perform, Lagos financial position was grave when Ambode took charge. Today I say boldly Ambode has however allayed my fears. Ambode is meticulously planning, intelligently executing and tenaciously delivering for the peoples of Lagos State..... So when did Ambode drift and to where," Barrister Mutiu Ogundele submitted.

Ediale James Ayemere in his submission said, Bola Tinubu cannot divert the attention of Lagos tax payers and residents from giving credit to whom it is due, on the Pen Cinema bridge and other legacy projects of the Akinwunmi Ambode led administration, as it comes on stream.

"In a highly sophisticated society like Lagos, we know that in four years Mr Akinwunmi Ambode indeed made Lagos work for all Lagosians, and the drift was positive, pro people and pro Lagos. Two years after he left office his service signatures are yet bringing up statewide. This administration will either be commissioning, recommissioning or branding and rebranding, the Ambode administration projects and initiatives. Tinubu has nothing to say about Ambode than to attempt justify the political break down between them, as not coming from his side."

"We are all aware that the whole gamut of political caucuses in Lagos State had endorsed Akinwunmi Ambode for second term, the records are there in public domain, before hawks around Tinubu begin to feed him with reasons why Ambode should not be allowed to go for second term and he fell for it. He is yet at pain to explain his real motivations, but he must realise that Lagosians and Nigerians at large are not carried away with the tepid excuses he gave, and Ambode has become the standard of public office holders in Nigeria are being measured. Is it not ironic and poetic that the whole of Lagos political establishment congregated to commission the project by the man, who they accused of not following the Lagos master plan, please is the Agege Pen Cinema bridge part of the plan." Dr Mrs Rebecca Afolabi stated.

Nothing to justify Ambode’s second term denial. Tinubu's dark alley attempt to rewrite history shows that he is a man on self serving agenda. It will be recalled that PM News reported in 2018 that Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo warned leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State against the dire consequences of denying the State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode a second term, saying there was absolutely nothing to justify such move.

Osinbajo in 2018 handed down the warning at a meeting of the Governors Advisory Council (GAC), the highest advisory body in the Lagos APC.


The Vice President had looked at them (the GAC members) straight in the face and told them ‘you Assembly members here, you have endorsed Ambode before; GAC members, you have endorsed Ambode before; You Femi Gbajabiamila, you brought all your House of Reps members to endorse Ambode; the Lagos State Senate caucus endorsed Ambode, the whole world know that you have endorsed Ambode and all of a sudden, what shall we tell the world now that Ambode has done wrong all of a sudden after all the endorsements that you have made to warrant your current position?

“The VP queried them further that will it be enough to tell the whole world that it is for our own selfish interest that we are saying that we are not going to endorse Ambode? Is it because Ambode has not performed? Ambode has performed and everybody knows that he has performed,” the source quoted Osinbajo to have told them.
“The VP told them that in the eyes of the populace, he (Ambode) has done well and so what is it that we are now going to tell the whole world the reason for saying we are not going to support Ambode? So, does it now mean that our own personal interest should be considered larger than the interest of the masses and the State,” he said.

Tinubu, at the meeting was said to have responded that all politics was local and later threatened that he will take the incubent, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to the party’s secretariat on Acme Road, Ogba to raise his hand as the candidate of the party, or quit the party.
"This history is what Tinubu attempts to rewrite while commissioning the very project initiated by the man who he claimed did not follow his master plan." Olanrewaju Timothy offered.
Lagosians will no longer be deceived by the Chief deceiver-in-chief Bola Tinubu. They still love Ambode and know where their bread is buttered and they will show it come 2023

Dennis Okorie reporting I hope it is not another IPOB terrorist. I just don't understand why some Igbos just envy Asiwaju and provide their service to spread lies against Asiwaju.

Firstly, we Lagosians don't hate HE Ambode and there's no point a Dennis Okorie or Nicholas Ibekwe setting us up against Asiwaju Tinubu or Ex-Gov. Ambode.We love them both but accept Asiwaju Tinubu as the leader of leaders like HE Ambode. Asiwaju was the one who presented HE Ambode to us and he turned out to be brilliant but derailed later.

However, if Ambode wants to keep fighting by proxy I wish him luck.
We are all living witnesses to how his first few weeks in office, everyone was being robbed on the streets of Lagos and we all kept wondering what happened to the strong security infrastructures Fashola built.
Little did we know that it was just a tip of the policy reversal and project abandonment that characterised that government.
The height of it for me was how he took jobs from the PSP and gave it to Visionscape which took back mountain of dirts all over Lagos.

He did not do horribly compared to some state governments but as a Lagosian used to excellence, Ambode ended up looking mediocre. He should just admit his mistake. By now, the fast train should have been working and those buses did not come without scandal too.
I love what he did for the civil service and Epe. We really don't hate him in Lagos but we deserve more. He should have just finished Fashola's projects and do his own.