₦airaland Forum

Audio recordings of the show are usually posted on Jimi Disu's blog after a day. I will post a link to the recording once it's available.

Pictures. The first 2 pictures are from the Morning Digest with Jimi Disu.


Dr Hamzat moved over to Naija FM (the Pidgin English sister station of Lagos Talks) and the 3rd and 4th pictures are from his interview at Naija FM.

Listen to the interview again.

Download or stream it here http://jimidisu.com/audio-election-2019-lagos-gubernatorial-candidate-jimi-agbaje-at-the-discourse/

Babajide Gbadamosi will be on the show on Thursday.

He said that there was a time that they opposed the governor, but they later regretted it.

He said that Fashola brought a proposal to expand the Opebi Link Bridge, but they said that the project should be done by PPP.

Fashola replied that all these PPP people do not have money, but they insisted that it should be done by PPP.


The project was never done and Hamzat said that they regret opposing Fashola. He said that it would have been easier to expand the bridge back then because there were fewer houses there then.

DisGuy:
BOJ on thursday....Oga naptu2 please update us as usual!

Will do

He said that they were in a meeting with with Tinubu and a south-south governor and Tinubu made a proposal. He said that they shut down the proposal. He said that Tinubu said that they should send a memo to the exco. They told Tinubu that the memo will fail at exco.

He said that the south-south governor asked, "Who are these people?" Tinubu told him that they are his commissioners. He said the south-south governor could not believe that they were arguing with Tinubu

A caller says that he is a person living with disability and that banks in Lagos do not have ramps for people like him.

He also said that he bought land from the state government at Ayobo, but he has not gotten the land or a refund.

Hamzat tells him to see the permanent secretary in charge of lands.


Jimi Disu says that he heard that everything is centralised in Ambode's government. He says that everything needs approval from the top. Will Hamzat decentralise?

Hamzat says that no governor can succeed if he doesn't decentralise.


He said that in BRF's exco, that all issues are brought to exco and everything is debated. That everything you do is monitored. He said that BRF hired young graduates to take pictures of projects. Nobody knew who the graduates were. He said that, as commissioner of works, BRF could suddenly ask yoù why street lights are not working on Ikorodu Road and if you insist that it's working, he could show you videos and pictures to prove that it's not working.

He said that you would be excused from the exco meeting to solve the problem and come back

Hamzat live on Morning Digest.
https://www.nairaland.com/4975485/obafemi-hamzat-live-morning-digest

Hamzat says that they decentralised the production of asphalt during the Fashola admin (when he was a commissioner) and that they will ensure that these asphalt plants work in order to be able to fix the roads.


Jimi Disu asks why they don't share these ideas with the current governor.

Hamzat says that the current governor is listening.

Jimi Disu insists and Hamzat says that he knows the person currently in charge of works and that he has spoken to him.

Jimi Disu jokes that that means that the man's job is safe.

A caller says that he is a die hard APC supporter both at the state and federal level, but his problem is with the current governor.

He said that Ambode is not working. He says that it's particularly bad in the area of roads and that the roads in Ikorodu are terrible.

Hamzat says that it's a union issue and the president of NURTW has spoken about it that it's a union issue, not a political issue.

Jimi Dissu said that some of the union leaders wore political party caps.

Hamzat says their interaction with the NURTW was because of the BRT project. The NURTW ran the blue line of the BRT and the government took them to Colombia to see how it was run. He said that that was the extent of their interaction with the union.

Hamzat says that the violence is unacceptable and it must stop

They are asking about agberos and MC Oluomo

Hamzat says that there is a Lagos masterplan and that Tinubu followed the masterplan and Fashola improved on it and that they will follow the masterplan.

Jimi Disu asks about Ambode. Hamzat didn't want to talk about Ambode, but Disu insisted.

Hamzat said that the problem was that LAWMA was in charge of waste and they had divided up Lagos amongst the PSP. LAWMA had a lot of trucks and they did so well that they were invited to Sierra Leone to train their refuse collectors.

He said that Vision Scape were brought to act as regulators over LAWMA and he thinks that's a mistake.


Jimi Disu asks if they will continue with Vision Scape. Hamzat said that he needs to read the contract agreement first before he can comment on the issue

A caller asks why they did not give all their great ideas to Ambode

They are talking about traffic again.


Hamzat says that, for example, at the Lekki Toll Gate, everybody is heading towards VI in the morning and traffic is high in that direction. They could make it free to head towards VI in the morning and increase the number of lanes, while those heading towards Lekki will pay tolls.


Jimi Disu asks if Hamzat will leave the tollgate or knock it down.

Hamzat says that the budget of Lagos is less that the budget of the NYPD and it's also less than the budget of the FDNY, so it needs all the money it can get

A listener sends an SMS and says that Jimi Disu is biased in favour of APC. He says that APC has not yet won the election, but Disu is asking them questions as if they have won.


Jimi Disu says that he was also accused of supporting Jimi Agbaje when Agbaje was on his show last Sunday and that it's amazing that he is biased in favour of both APC and PDP

Danbaba calls in and asks why APC candidates refuse to accept that there's an emergency in Lagos.

He asks if the contestants speak with Ambode (because they are in the same party).

He said that the contestants can't rule themselves. He says that if there's ebola and everybody dies in Lagos, will the candidates rule themselves?

He says that there's environmental emergency in Lagos under Ambode's rule.

Jimi Disu asks if Fashola was one of the people that encouraged him to contest.

Hamzat says that people always talk about Fashola and it's true that he worked with Fashola, but they hardly see. He said that his role was to go round the country to monitor projects on behalf of Fashola.

Hamzat says that the constitution says that there must be elections every 4 years, so it gave him an opportunity to contest.

Jimi Disu tries to pin him down and get him to comment on Ambode, but Hamzat avoids it

There's a tradition that governors have 2 terms, yet you contested against Ambode. Does it mean that you think that Ambode did not do well?

Jimi Disu references a picture of Sanwo-olu in the paper.

Sanwo-Olu is in Davos and the caption is that he is trying to attract investments.

Hamzat said that the paper must have made a mistake. That Sanwo-Olu ish not there to attract investment (Jimi Disu said that he's not yet the governor). He said that Sanwo-olu was invited because he has worked with the Davos organisers before.

How to contact the show

Previous thread: Jimi Agbaje on The Discourse with Jimi Disu

https://www.nairaland.com/4971357/jimi-agbaje-live-discourse-today

They are talking about roads (Hamzat was once a commissioner of works).


Jimi Disu talks about roads that are constructed today and disappear tomorrow.

Hamzat said that there's a lot of planning before roads are constructed.

He said that constructing roads is not just about what you put on the surface, but what's below the surface is more important. He said that you are not only moving sand when you build roads in Lagos, but you are also moving water. He said therefore you must plan where you discharge the water to. He said that asphalt is a chemical and it will dissolve if it mixes with water. So therefore, the drainages are very important.

Then they begin talking about drainages.

Jimi Disu says that there is a need to decongest Lagos.

Hamzat says that Lagos is part of Nigeria and you can't impose visas on other Nigerians

Jimi Disu says that Lagos is in a state of emergency.

Hamzat says he doesn't know what Jimi means.

Jimi Disu says that things are not working.

Hamzat says some things are working and some things are not working.

Jimi Disu gives traffic management as an example

Jimi Disu asks what portfolio he will be given. Hamzat says they've not discussed it.

Jimi Disu is surprised. He says it should have been discussed.

Hamzat says it will be discussed at the right time. He says they need to deal with the issues at hand first.

Jimi Disu says that he believes that Hamzat will be in charge of IT

Hamzat says that he is an IT expert, but that the issue will be discussed at the right time.

Jimi Disu: What will be your role as deputy governor?

Obafemi Hamzat: There's a tradition of assigning portfolios to the deputy governor. Sarah Sosan was also the commissioner of education (he lists other deputy governors that held positions).