₦airaland Forum

Exc2000:
Is it bad if you speak of your own achievements or ain't you human

I like as you are humbled by this.

The truth is that the SW people are not good administrators.

The reason OBj and GEY succeeded and Buhari failed was because the others used more people from SE, while the later used people from the SW...Lai, Fashola, etc...

Tinubu will fail woefully as you know that the SW administrator like Bayo Adenuga and FFK will be the main guys...

helinues:
When Awolowo was busy developing his region, some people are still humping from one tree to another covering themselves with banana leaf

Since 1960...only Awo the regional champ that you can remember...

You see why Nigeria is going all the one down...

helinues:
Are you doing the trolling deliberately just because you don't want to be useful to your community?

Stop playing around.

Mention Yoruba contributors to national development...

All you do is to grab power and set Nigeria back 100 years...

Exc2000:
Naira was designed and lunched by Awolowo

Most schools accross Niger Delta was built by him when they were still naked

Many schools, technical college, airport and Investment are by him

Lazy yoooth....

So even if we chose Awo...

So no one else since 1960?

Shame no dey catch una?

helinues:
Go through your topic again. Tell us where it indicates National administrator.

Even if you guys were caught with pree.k in your mouth, you must find a way of calling it kuku agbado.

Eish

Always shifting goal post...

All those mentioned were national.

As expected, I know you will twerk the thread as you have no one to match them...

Only Awolowo the regional champ.

You make a lot of noise.

Again, mention one administrator from SW who is a house hold name in Nigeria.

All you are good at is loud mouth and embezzlement.

You see as una dey struggle to get one name.

Exc2000:
Awolowo was the defacto prime minister and the minister of finance under Gowon he practically ran Nigeria

He was western region best Administrator ever

With a Degree in Law and Accounting... Awolowo outclass Zik in all ways possible

Yet, the only thing after his name was OAU, Ile Ife..

Nobody knew Awo outside SW.

helinues:
He wasn't allowed to govern Nigeria so he restricted his policies to his region which brought faster development to SW.

Free education, first tv and radio station, first tallest building not to talk of hisnother legacies

Zik claimed to be a nationalist but what exactly can he be remember for? What contribution did he make to his own region like Awolowo?

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So we agreed that Awo was a local, regional champ.

Go and open a thread for regional administrator.

This page is for national contributors...

I am so ashamed that none of you is mentioning, Lai, Fashola and the current VP

Aphrygian:
Does Akinwumi Adesina ring a bell?Obasanjo who happens to be the best Nigerian democratic president is Igbo abi?

No he doesn't, compared to the others.

What was he known for?

Though, I would have preferred him to Tinubu, any way.

helinues:
Awolowo is a big reference case

What did he contribute nationally...?

Zik floored him in that aspect...

How many national edifice does Awolowo hold...

Only OAU Ife...compared that to ZIK of Africa...

You ONLY have big wide mouth you open without thinking.

You guys are poor administrators...only good at stealing public money.

Since Nigeria was created we have had public administrators who are house hold names in terms of what they have contributed to the society.

We have names like:

Ngozi Iweala

Charles Soludu former CBN governor.

Oby Ezekwesili

Dora Akunyili NAFDAC

Ndidi Onyiuke Stock Exchange

El Rufia FCT

Etc

You can hardly remember any name from SW despite decades in government.

Does it mean they are not good administrators?

CC - Helinus of Who are the enemies of SE fame

Afamed:
This is Anambra where Obi ruled for 8 yrs

This is LONDONOOO..sorry Lagos Tinubu ruled for 24 years...

Wide and loud mouthed people...

Wagwanbrethren:
I thought you wailers said only Yorubas and Hausas were in Sudan, and that only terrorist go there to study! 🤣

Going by una craze logic:
Some Hausas are in Sudan
Some Yorubas are in Sudan
:. No igbos are in Sudan
IIE_4

😁

Swear that One Nigeria make any sense to you? With this rubbish you are spewing...

helinues:
We supported Buhari's reelection meaning SW and NC are the election deciders in Nigeria. Undisputable fact

...and this started in 2015...

Where have you been since Nigeria was created?

Most people from your region always reason below average.

I’ll hit ground running to keep my campaign promises to Enugu people –Peter Mbah
By Wilfred Eya

The Enugu State Governor-elect, Dr. Peter Mbah has said he will hit the ground running from Day One and assured that he would keep his campaign promises to people of the Coal City state. In an interactive session with Political Editors in Lagos, he spoke extensively on various issues especially his resolve to think out of the box to take Enugu to the next level

How were you able to scale through opposition’s hurdle to emerge victorious in the governorship election?

We did something that was unique; something that was peculiar. In the past, the way the campaign was done was that the governorship candidate would have a tour of the local government areas for rallies. But we took a different view, we felt that we should get granular; we wanted to reach out to the grassroots. And beyond reaching out to the grassroots, we wanted to get to understand their pain-points. So, we went on a tour of the 68 development centres and had town hall meetings with the people at the grassroots and relevant community based organisations as well as professional bodies.

That afforded us the opportunity to sell our message of hope, message of exponential growth, message of disrupting the status quo to the people. We also began to unpack what we mean by ‘tomorrow is here.’ We began to explain to them what tomorrow holds for them. We also engaged them constructively. But beyond engaging them constructively, the town hall meetings also afforded us the opportunity to listen to them; have them talk to us about their pains, their challenges and their difficulties. So, it wasn’t a report through a third party; it was me hearing from them.


Another opportunity it afforded us was that we documented the various potentials each local government in the state has. As you already know from my manifesto, we are trying to unlock our rural economy and we have an integrated rural development plan for the state. So, it was an opportunity for us to identify the various potentials of the local governments, particularly the development centres. We also took a bold view of what Enugu State can achieve in the next four to eight years under our leadership, and obviously, that resonated with the people.

Of course, we had naysayers, we also had some critics, whom we welcomed frankly because what we were basically telling them is unprecedented; something you cannot look at the past and see how it connects to what we were saying. If you look at the growth pattern in the last four years; it has largely been marginal. But here we are saying that we are going to grow the economy from the $4.4 billion level to $30 billion within the next eight years.

We also told Ndi Enugu that we are going to achieve a zero per cent rate poverty head count index. That also is unprecedented. We are saying that by 2031, there will be zero poverty in Enugu; there will be eradication and not reduction of poverty. This means that we are no longer going to have people under extreme or abject poverty or living below the poverty line.

And we were also unique in our strategic objectives because it is one thing having a laudable vision of growing the economy and lifting people out of poverty but another thing to be able to explain to them how you are going to achieve it. That was how we started talking about disrupting the current revenue model, which obviously focuses on receipt of money from Abuja and coming back to Enugu to spend it and that money not being able to intervene optimally across sectors of our economy.

So, we explained to them how we intend to deploy a critical alternative financing so that we can begin to generate funds from other sources. We also know that if we are going to go at the level that we have proposed, the growth will not just come from the public sector. It has to come from constructive investments, the private sector. So, the private sector is going to play a critical role and that’s business.


As I always say to my team, businesses are not Father Christmas; they want returns on their investments. So, you are going to engage with them; explain to them how you intend to de-risk their investment; how you intend to provide key enablers – infrastructure, security, physical environment, policy on taxation, ease of obtaining construction permit, ease of obtaining title documents.

There are lots of key indicators under ease of doing business that you must address. So, we were clear about the different approaches we are going to deploy to achieve our goals. For us, our mission is to make Enugu the most attractive state for investment. We are not just saying it because it is fancy to say. It is not also about going out there to seek investors, invite them for investment forum and market Enugu. You must have selling points. You have to prove that indeed Enugu is that preferred destination for investment.

In unpacking what we mean by tomorrow being here, it is basically telling our young people how we intend to enhance their skills and get them to compete with their peers across the globe. Our interest in ICT infrastructure is going to address that. We hope to be able to put a minimum of 40,000 young people every year to get productively and skillfully equipped with ICT skills.

That means we are going to have a number of innovation and incubation centres in clusters across the three senatorial zones. We will also work with outsourcing agents across the word to be able match-make these young people immediately they are done with their skill enhancement programmes, so that they can sit in Enugu and provide services to prospective employers anywhere in the world.

That is the good thing about digital economy; you are upwardly mobile. You don’t have to migrate to the United States or Europe in order to earn foreign exchange. We are looking at a critical mass; about 40,000 every year, which is no tea party. So, we must have robust ICT infrastructure in order to achieve that goal.


In the area of practical skills, our vision is to train 10,000 young people with vocational and technical skills every year. Our hope in this regard is that Enugu will become a net exporter of practical skills. So, if you are looking for a plumber or electrician, you no longer have to go to Benin Republic or Togo. You will start looking towards Enugu because we are going to build a critical mass of young people with practical skills.

When we say tomorrow is here, it means being able to get our young people to be digitally and practically equipped and we believe that as a state, we are going to be a beneficiary because it will boost economic activities. You can imagine a situation, where we have thousands of young people with digital skills, sitting in Enugu and earning about $2,000 monthly. What that means is an economy close to a billion dollars every year.

Consequently, we will have a lot of young people with purchasing power and a robust market and by implication attract industries because manufacturers will have the foreknowledge that there is a population with the purchasing power to patronise them. So, these things are systemic; they are going to connect each other and all that government needs to do is to provide those enablers I talked about.

In a nutshell, we believe that our message resonated with the people of Enugu State and that was why when they spoke during the governorship election, we had no doubt that we were the preferred choice for governance of Enugu State. Of course, we are not unmindful of some people we defeated at the primary election, who are still saying they would have been the winner of the main election.

How can you be the winner of the main election, when you couldn’t win the primary and when you have told the world that you are supporting the party’s candidate because he is the best as well as signed an undertaking to support whoever emerges at the primary? Of course, we know the way people see elections in Nigeria; some find it difficult to accept defeat.


By May 29, you would be sworn in as governor of Enugu State. How soon will you hit the ground running and what should the people expect in your first 100 days in office?

Usually, the first 100 days are honeymoon, especially when you are coming in with a lot of expectations and you have the opportunity to make an impression because you are riding on a high level goodwill. We have made some specific promises to the people of Enugu State with timelines. Some of the promises, even in the course of the campaign, have been reduced to actionable timelines. For example, we told Ndi Enugu that within 180 days, we will make sure that pipe borne water runs in their homes. We also talked about other things like addressing security challenges and waste management. Of course, we are committed to keeping to these set goals because we were aware of the situation and what we need to do to address them and that was why we put timelines to them. So, we are going to keep to our campaign promises.

Do you think that the revenue on ground would be able to fund the ambitious programmes you have in your manifesto?

In terms of revenue and where we are on dealing with soft issue, which is the second leg of our vision – eradicating poverty – we believe that intervening on issues like payment of pensions and gratuities are things we should do in order to take our people out of abject poverty. We know what the outstanding debt is, so we are going to arrange finance to clear that over a period of time and come up with a model that allows for the pay as you go pension. We will introduce the contributory pension scheme and work with that. Meanwhile, on the legacy debt, we will look for money and clear that.


If we look at our rural economy for example, nothing is happening in that sector. We have huge expanse of land and our land is so fertile that our factor productivity is five-fold. What you plant in Enugu, if you plant the same thing elsewhere in the North, whether it is Nasarawa or Niger states, you get five times in Enugu what you get from there. So, our plan is to unlock our rural economy; create special economic zones in the various local governments as well as access roads to the farm lands in order to attract commercial farmers.

So, we are not only going to unlock the potentials of these local government areas because we have about 100,000 hectares of farm land in each of the three senatorial districts, which is over 300,000 hectares when summed-up; we will have food security and we will equally process our farm produce, absorb post-harvest loses, package and market them. Also, we will have a whole lot of manufacturing industries that will come up with made-in Enugu products.

So, there are things that Enugu has not done before or the government has not been able to look into; we intend to do and it will no longer be about going to Abuja to collect allocation. We have a couple of other finance models that we outlined in our manifesto like the Diaspora Bond, which is gaining traction already. We intend to launch a Diaspora Bond basically to tell our brothers and sisters, who live abroad that the money they send shouldn’t be for consumption alone; that they can also dedicate part of it for production.

If you look at revenue that comes from the Diaspora, it runs into billions of dollars. So, we need to educate them on the need to convert a percentage of that for production and as a government, we securitize it, so that there will be security and credit and it becomes a tradable finance. We have also promised that we will run a transparent and accountable government and if you look at our governance principle, we even went further to say that we are going to codify and publish the Citizens Charter, which speaks to our public finance management system and fiscal discipline.

This will ensure that the people of Enugu know what accrues to them in terms of revenue from the different sources. They will also know what those funds are deployed for and the impact the expenditure is having on them. So, it is a robust thing but you have to build trust; the people must also trust you and those living outside should equally trust, especially when you talk about the Diaspora Bond.


When you talk about disrupting the revenue model in the state; have you considered the challenges that will come with such move given the resistance that usually comes with change?

I will say that it is all happening at a time when our people are becoming conscious of good governance and people are getting interested in leadership. In the first place, I believe that I emerged as a candidate for the governorship election because the leadership of the PDP in the state and the current governor in particular, realised the need for the party to reinvent itself and that the party needs to do things differently. So, I believe that we are going to have massive support from the political elite and the people of Enugu State, who believe that the current system is no longer able to serve our people optimally and are yearning for change.

How are you going to address the security challenges the state is facing because it would be difficult to realize your vision if the state is unsafe?

Security is key to everything we want to do in terms of economic growth, lifting people out of poverty and making Enugu the most attractive state in terms of ease of doing business. If you don’t have security, there can be none of that. You cannot have sustainable growth or development without peace and security. At the same time, you cannot have peace and security without sustainable growth. They are mutually reinforcing, so you have to tackle the two issues at the same time. That is why we talk about kinetic and non-kinetic approaches to tackling insecurity.

Of course, the non-kinetic approach is about dealing with unemployment and poverty frontally but at the same time strengthening our policing architecture. We have a robust security plan, so we are going to deploy technology to be able to identify and track criminal elements wherever they are. We are going to have a command and control centre that we can use to monitor activities going on across the state.


For the first time since 1999, Enugu State will have a House of Assembly that will not be dominated by the PDP as Labour Party won a sizeable number of seats during the elections. How are you going to navigate the opposition that will come from the House?

It is a function of what our common objectives are. Frankly, our objective is greatness of Enugu, development of Enugu, growth of Enugu. To this end, I believe that the incoming members of the House of Assembly, irrespective of party leaning, share the same objectives. Yes, we may have our different political beliefs but the goal remains the same. The goal is that Enugu State has to be great. And as long as we have a common goal, I have no doubt in my mind that we will work together. It is not about party or politics; it is about Enugu and I believe that we will work together to achieve our common objective of making the state great.

You cannot do the job alone; you need commissioners and others. What are the yardsticks that will determine those who will make your cabinet given the pressure that will come from godfathers and other stakeholders?

If you look at our manifesto, we talked about social performance contract, so we are bringing in people, who are going to execute that social performance contract across all the functional areas. We will be clear about the output targets for each of the ministries and my duty is to communicate those and goals and vision as clearly as possible and to work with a team of people, who have bought into that goal and we will have a way of measuring performance on the social contract we signed with Ndi Enugu.


https://sunnewsonline.com/ill-hit-ground-running-to-keep-my-campaign-promises-to-enugu-people-peter-mbah/

helinues:
We were able to remove him cos we were part of those who voted for him in 2011.

..but you criminal minded pretender could not remove the one you help to vote in 2015 with worse performance in 2019?

helinues:
Wolf crying don't bring justification . The thread you posted, justification was done after

What justification was done after?

You removed your brother from SS by spewing lies and brought a government where you marginalised others...with the worse economy in its history...

helinues:
Are we surprised? Hell no

They are known for wolf crying

This is wolf crying...
https://www.nairaland.com/745731/yoruba-marginalization-elders-met-jonathan

BRIMBRAM:


I wonder why NIDCOM choose to waste their time over a people whose lives is centered around crying.

They cried while in Nigeria, calling it a zoo and they are now crying for not taken back to the zoo.

But na zoo man volunteered to ferry you to safety...when no help came initially

Mccullum:
These people and their victim card game strategy, always politicizing everything for

attention seeking. IPOB has downgraded Igbos race to crying baby at all time in a

very childish manner, this made them to loss sympathy of planet earth populace.

Shut it...

I have never seen a country where vast majority of their separate tribes hate each other so much and yet they are ready to kill if any wants to leave.

clearcrystal:
Na them hate Nigeria pass

They are the first to raise false alarm
They are terrible people

Only more terrible people will kill millions and ready to kill more millions than allow those terrible people to exit peacefully away from them forever..

You see your wicked life?

goodnessme1:
Yoruba don't care about this.

For where...

Those heartless and shameless hypocrites are busy shedding crocodile tears... holding and consoling Oyiboupdates from hanging himself on

Innocent Girl Killed By IPOB Unknown Gunmen Laid To Rest PHOTOS
https://www.nairaland.com/7674001/innocent-girl-killed-ipob-unknown

chukel:
this is not even his project. Was built by the past Governor, Sullivan Chime. Gburugburu couldn't equip and put it into use.

hahaha...very funny.

emkz:
You forgot to add the abysmal increase in the frequency of your foolishness outweighing inflation.

Why did your mental blindness only greased by cheap lucre and ethnic bigotry pushed you to send the past government packing?

You thieves didn't remember inflation then...?

What about insecurity? No, it is caused by inflation...?

The day the masses will fight back...I hope they meet you on their way...

During Endsar, we see videos of people rushing off to Paris...

I don't think you low 'politifing' learner has such money to escape...

kwantinue supporting evil because you will get an appointment...

helinues:
Wailers and their media wing should receive sense IJN

Wicked soul...

After 4 years... we will hear similar thing as below.

Forgive me my sins, Buhari begs Nigerians.

...even after few good Nigerians advised you majority wicked people...

Now, you are going the same way...

emkz:
Then why did it take 4 days for the Nigerians to leak it?

After returning from the UK, he attended one event in Anambra and one of his former commussioners wrote a lengthy Facebook posts to alert Nigerians perhaps to create the impression that Obi was being victimized. It was only after that the story of the Nigerians who witnessed it sprang up.

Perhaps get your facts right please.

Look at this shameless political jobber...na only through politics thieves like you can make it in life...

Even devils will never vote a party with this horrible record...

OMG...this guy is super talented...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKROAugK4iY

Godoverevery:
The usual dumb reply.

Smell the coffee bro.....your tribe will always be 3rd class citizen in this country.

The crying and wailing is for another 4yrs.

Stale.

..the same shameless reply like many others who have nothing more to say.

Evil man runs off..

Just answer the question and he drolls off...in utter shame.