₦airaland Forum

If you want your state to be like Lagos from 2027 copy this system and stop shouting GODFATHERISM

📍Have a rallying leader.

📍Build a 32-year plan starting from 2027. Use a disciplined political party for continuity.

📍Raise governors from within the system people who understand governance, have served in it, and can continue, NOT RESTART.

📍Set up a Governor’s Advisory Council to handle political guidance so the governor can focus on governance.

📍Build a policing House of Assembly that holds not just the executive accountable, but the entire civil service system. Empower local governments.

In many states, everything revolves around the governor.

The governor becomes the rallying point, the head of the political party, the de facto advisory council, and even controls the House of Assembly. The same governor often limits the independence of local governments, keeping power centralized.

The result is simple: once that governor leaves office, the entire vision collapses. What was built doesn’t continue—it resets. And the state starts all over again instead of moving forward.

✌️That’s the real secret not GODFATHERISM

-Alabi Opeyemi Oladimeji

Story for the gods. Even if a goat is the governor of Lagos, the state will be growing because the private sector drives the growth in Lagos.

Most of the revenue-generating projects in Lagos are ideas from private players, that's why they are public-private partnership in collaboration with those who brought them or the companies that politicians want to execute them.

The template for the development of the state was well designed

SmartPolician:
Story for the gods. Even if a goat is the governor of Lagos, the state will be growing because the private sector drives the growth in Lagos.

Most of the revenue-generating projects in Lagos are ideas from private players, that's why they are public-private partnership in collaboration with those who brought them or the companies that politicians want to execute them.

It's the private sector that built the blue and red line trains or the private sector gave the land for Lekki free trade zone.