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Rozross:
This people will not live big daddy alone over this oriental hotel, is it by force to claim ownership of what doesn’t belong to you? It’s all good sha, even Jesus was rejected but today his name rules over the world.

kettykin:
Everyone will keep laying claim to the development of Lagos,non will take responsibility for plunging Lagos into debts

having failed as Communication minister under the Abacha junta and capped that career of incompetence with his unsoldierly conduct by trembling like rain-beaten native fowl and sulking like an infant while appearing before the Victor Malu panel that tried him and others involved in the 1997 coup plot (as transmitted by NTA in 1998). So disoriented was this cowardly General, when faced with the risk of maximum penalty, that he started singing like a canary under cross-examination

kk2027:
Please don't bring the name if Jesus into this
Thank you

kk2027:
Meanwhile, Lagos is what is today because it used to be Nigeria capital

Move the capital to anywhere else in Nigeria today and watch that place overtake Abuja

Thank God Abuja kuku no get governor, somebody would've claimed credit for making Abuja too


So please if Tinubu made Lagos, I'm interested in finding out who made Abuja

seunmsg:
Lagos state is what it is today because it was developed by western region government and successive governments of Lagos state.

The development of Lagos has nothing to do with Federal government. Lagos state was never federal capital territory at any time in our history. Stop the lies and give credit to those that developed the state.

Lagos Island up to Ikoyi was FCT and not Lagos state. The part that was FCT was not even up to 10% of the current Lagos state. The Lekki corridor where the Oriental hotel is located was never part of your FCT. Ikeja, Oshodi, Magodo, mainland, Agege, Alimosho, Epe, Ikorodu, Lekki to Ajah were never part of FCT. FG did not develop Lagos. Stop the lies.

FreeStuffsNG:
Many of them do not know Lagos and many have never even stepped foot in Lagos. Many of them do not even know if Lagos is different from Lagos State.I have since realised it when they betray their ignorance on threads on Lagos.
There was a thread on women being helped across a ditch around Long bridge/Kara but many of them did not even know that the location is not Lagos but started alluding it to Lagos state. They allowed the politics of lies, envy, bitterness, ignorance, hate and religious/tribal bigotry mess up their head, mind and future.

seunmsg:
While some are truly ignorant, a lot of them are aware but just want to muddle you facts to make themselves feel good, hide the failures of their own leaders and ridicule the achievements of others.

You think some of them don’t know that Tinubu was a far better governor than Peter Obi was? They are aware of the huge achievements recorded by Tinubu in Lagos, they just want to keep disputing it just to promote their failed candidate who has no achievements to run on.

FreeStuffsNG:
This is a rejoinder that accurately sets the record straight against the falsehood peddled in an earlier thread that made the frontpage
https://www.nairaland.com/7320946/oriental-hotel-lied-olanrewaju-tackles
This serves to educate those who do not know the fact of the history of that Lekki shoreline land and those were too young or yet to move to Lagos then to know truly that the Lekki shoreline land was then a wasteland.

Re: Ex-minister tackles Tinubu over Oriental Hotels

By Segun Alabi

I read, with delirious amusement, the attempt by Tajudeen Olarenwaju via a press statement today (September 7) to rewrite the history of the land on which the popular Oriental Hotels, Lekki presently stands.

Ordinarily, one would not have bothered joining issue with a failed soldier who obviously is still suffering from the trauma of being publicly shamed over involvement in the failed 1997 coup (Diya coup). But one thought otherwise, realising that a sizeable segment of our demographics (millennials and Generation Z) today were either unborn or too young to understand when these events unfolded and, so, might be misled by Olarenwaju’s fairy tale.


Of course, Olarenwaju’s latest misadventure in crude revisionism is against the backdrop of a recent 30-minute TV documentary on Asiwaju’s political evolution (entitled ‘Tinubu: The Pathfinder of New Lagos’), with particular reference to his 8-year tenure as Lagos Governor (1999-2007), which is currently enjoying rave reviews and plaudits in enlightened political circles.

As a true Lagosian myself, I watched the said documentary twice and believe it is a fair representation of the facts of history. One, the documentary in question abided by the tenet of intellectual honesty by clearly acknowledging and commending the contributions of governors of Lagos like Mobolaji Johnson, Lateef Jakande and Mohammed Buba Marwa to the development of Lagos State. Only sick minds and shamelessly partisan viewers would seek to deny the path-breaking and landscape-transforming achievements of Tinubu in diverse sectors including the radical opening up and modernization of the Lekki Corridor.

Well, among a raft of spurious claims and politically-motivated attack on Asiwaju, Olarenwaju disputed the assertion that the land on which Oriental Hotels stands wasn’t full of garbage, even as he lays claims to the ownership of the said land by proxy. Nothing could be further from the truth!

To begin with, any discerning observer would easily notice that Olarenwaju craftily attributed ownership to Kembu Company and only tried to insert his affiliation to the said Kembu in the next breath. Such semantic manoeuvre was undoubtedly borne out of Olarenwaju’s own self-awareness that stating directly that he acquired such a prime real estate as a serving soldier cannot stand a moral scrutiny. For, it will only remind Nigerians of how soldiers of fortune like him looted the country shamelessly in the 80s and the 90s and attempted to convert every conceivable public space or asset to personal estate.


Contrary to Olarenwaju’s claims, inhabitants of that area up till early 2000s would indeed attest that the entire coastal line (stretching from Ozumba Mbadiwe through the Civic Centre/Boat Club, through the front of the present Mobil Office, to the Oriental Hotel, further down the Lekki- Epe corridor) was all refuse dump-site. In fact, there was even a very dirty fish market exactly opposite Mobil office at the time.

The facts of the matter:

1.) It was the late Mike Akhigbe as military governor of Lagos that originally allocated the land on which Oriental Hotel stands to the Chinese-owned Wempco Group in 1987 — 12 long years before Tinubu dreamt of becoming governor.

2.) However, Wempco could not develop because of the obvious unviability of that shoreline until Tinubu came and gave a 2-year ultimatum to all allottees of the shoreline to develop or forfeit. The order by the Tinubu administration was after Lagos won the planning regulation case against the Federal Government at the Supreme Court.

3.) That was when the Chinese owners of Oriental Hotel started to build and others too began to develop.

Contrary to widespread beer-parlour rumour and silly insinuations in some quarters, Asiwaju doesn’t own one kobo share in Oriental Hotel. The Hongkong Chinese Tung family that owns the hotel has been operating in Nigeria since the late 1950s and also operated the Golden Crown Chinese restaurant along Ikorodu road since the 1970s till they moved to the present hotel and they also own the Omo Wood in Ijebu Ode and are known to be close family friends of the present Awujale of Ijebu Ode.

Since the Supreme Court already gave a judgement in favour of Lagos State over this particular shoreline, one would have thought that soldiers of fortune like Olarenwaju in possession of self-allocated Certificates of Occupancy (C of O) over our common patrimony, would show contrition by keeping quiet instead of making bogus claims that would only remind Nigerians of their infamy and looting under the guise of military rule.

By putting up this puerile argument over Oriental’s land, Olarenwaju only seems to have inadvertently given more ammunition to those who perceive him as hopelessly incompetent, having failed as Communication minister under the Abacha junta and capped that career of incompetence with his unsoldierly conduct by trembling like rain-beaten native fowl and sulking like an infant while appearing before the Victor Malu panel that tried him and others involved in the 1997 coup plot (as transmitted by NTA in 1998). So disoriented was this cowardly General, when faced with the risk of maximum penalty, that he started singing like a canary under cross-examination, confessing that he had built houses for all his children while in service! The big question was: could his honest salary as a soldier be enough to have built the collection of wondrous mansions uncovered by investigators?

Enough of the rantings of a failed coupist!

Mr. Segun Alabi, a retired civil servant, wrote from Lekki, Lagos.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/09/re-ex-minister-tackles-tinubu-over-oriental-hotels/

Mynd44 nlfpmod please move to frontpage.
Thank you.

ogododo:
Tinubu don pay dis one. No be Raji Razak cleared Maroko where Mobil dey now. Lies dey pose.

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh. Please where did the author state that late Gen. Raji Rasaki cleared Maroko so they could build mobil towers there? It is apparent that you are meddling in an issue or state you do not understand. Just read it slowly to get the point, I know it is long read many folks on social media are not used to but please read this one ehn

ogododo:
I dey tell you wetin I know, u fit say I be small boy. Asked anybody wey dey around dat time. When maroko was demolished, people scattered go join Jakande, Ajegunle, Ikorodu. De problem be say history no dey our book again. Go national library go read from 1985 to 90s. Bros go ready offshore laws, why FG dey claim shores. I beg park well.

seunmsg:
Lagos state is what it is today because it was developed by western region government and successive governments of Lagos state.

The development of Lagos has nothing to do with Federal government. Lagos state was never federal capital territory at any time in our history. Stop the lies and give credit to those that developed the state.

Lagos Island up to Ikoyi was FCT and not Lagos state. The part that was FCT was not even up to 10% of the current Lagos state. The Lekki corridor where the Oriental hotel is located was never part of your FCT. Ikeja, Oshodi, Magodo, mainland, Agege, Alimosho, Epe, Ikorodu, Lekki to Ajah were never part of FCT. FG did not develop Lagos. Stop the lies.

FreeStuffsNG:
Please leave the story for now and stay on your earlier post that I responded to.
Please read what you typed up there and compare to your earlier post alleging that the author claimed in his rejoinder what you erroneously alluded to him.
Is it that you quoted his article without reading it or now too upset and proud to admit that you just lied on the author or you made a genuine mistake?

kk2027:
So who developed Abuja?

seunmsg:
Ojukwu and Peter Obi.

kk2027:
Meanwhile, Lagos is what is today because it used to be Nigeria capital

Move the capital to anywhere else in Nigeria today and watch that place overtake Abuja

Thank God Abuja kuku no get governor, somebody would've claimed credit for making Abuja too


So please if Tinubu made Lagos, I'm interested in finding out who made Abuja

seunmsg:
Ojukwu and Peter Obi.

EtinosaDLaw:
This thread was created by Tinubu's motor park urchins just to pass the false message that Tinubu the drug kingpin doesn't own Oriental Hotel



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