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Two chieftains of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday had heated disagreement over the governor who “built” post-military Lagos State.

The two members of the ruling party, Tunde Bank-Anthony and Wole Badmus, featured as guests on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme.

While Bank-Anthony said APC’s 2023 presidential candidate and former Lagos governor, Bola Tinubu, cannot take the glory for the achievements of his successors, Badmus insisted that Tinubu transformed Lagos with his masterplan that successive governors in the state built upon.

As the 2023 election draws closer, Tinubu’s supporters have been using Lagos as a base for campaigning for their candidate. Lagos, a cosmopolitan city with about 20 million eclectic people, is the economic hub of Nigeria. The state generates the highest internally generated revenue (IGR) annually amongst the 36 states in the country. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, Lagos’ IGR for the first half of 2021 was N267.23bn, far ahead of the Federal Capital Territory with N69.07bn and Rivers State with N57.32bn.

Speaking on Channels Television’s breakfast programme on Wednesday, Bank-Anthony, the spokesman for the Concerned Lagosians group, cautioned Tinubu’s supporters not to ascribe the current development strides of Lagos solely to Tinubu.

“The people that succeeded Asiwaju (Tinubu), BRF succeeded him and his eight years was more visible than Bola Tinubu’s eight years…He (Tinubu) cannot claim glory for what they did; it’s not possible,” Bank-Anthony said

“I read something not too long ago, the chairman of the party in Lagos said Ambode did not follow the blueprint of Lagos. What is the blueprint of Lagos? It should be online for people to see,” he added.

He also said Ambode was a performing governor who was yanked off for “personal reason”.

However, Badmus, the Executive Director of the South-West Grand Alliance For Tinubu-Shettima 2023, disagreed with Bank-Anthony, saying Tinubu transformed Lagos with his “blueprint”.

“Nobody is claiming that Tinubu is the founder of Lagos. Nobody is saying that Tinubu is the person that discovered Lagos; what we are saying is that Tinubu became governor at a time when Lagos was the brink of collapse. He became governor at a time that the infrastructural decay in Lagos was unprecedented,” Badmus said.



https://www.channelstv.com/2022/09/07/apc-chieftains-disagree-over-tinubus-achievements-in-lagos/amp/

Watch full news segment here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWNnYytJVf8

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It is foolishness and stupidity to say that Tinubu developed Lagos

Which Lagos did Tinubu develop?

It is only fools made this claims

Please the election should just come and go so everyone can rest

Pictures of the blueprint or la story la telemundo

Nightwolf1:
Pictures of the blueprint or la story la telemundo

The lies got too much that even their own APC chief had to come live on the news to call out Tinubu and his lies

Babysho:
The lies got too much that even their own APC chief had to come live on the news to call out Tinubu and his lies

I tell you, these guys are chronic liars.

NaijaRoyalty:
It is foolishness and stupidity to say that Tinubu developed Lagos

Which Lagos did Tinubu develop?

It is only fools made this claims

You dey mind them? Since Tinubu is developer who developed Fashola and all Lagos governors, why is he not taking the glory for Buhari's performance

No be juju be that

Tinubu was governor of Lagos from 1999 to 2007

Go through history of Lagos capital expenditure you will see between the years Tinubu was governor he didn't do much

Tinubu did exceptionally nothing in Lagos..

Jakande, buba Marwa, fashole, ambode, FG, and Military administrators.oerformed far better...

Tinubu empowered only touts and taxes for his bullions vans

8th