This is my reply to a Tinubu supporter who told me that why she is supporting Tinubu is because Lagos is more developed than Anambra state. It's a little long but it's an interesting write up. Please take time to read through. God bless you.
To start with, I know you have made up your mind to vote your preferred candidate and that's okay by me. I am not necessarily replying you so you can change your mind but if you do that will also be great however I am replying you mainly to put the records straight.
1: It is absolutely improper for APC to use Lagos to campaign for presidency when APC has been in power for almost eight years. The proper thing as a party is to use their performance for the past seven and half years to campaign but because they know they failed Nigerians so they don't want to use their performance to campaign. So APC is now two; Buhari's APC and Tinubu's APC. Tinubu cannot separate himself from the current APC Central government. APC as we all know according to Federal Government figures has put more Nigerians in poverty. According to their own government agencies figures APC government has put Nigeria in worse situation economically than they met Nigeria. For Tinubu to distance himself from the current APC Central government performance and be using Lagos to campaign when he Tinubu was an arrow head in bringing the current APC to power is a clear indication that APC as a political party cannot be trusted. In my opinion no sensible Nigerian should vote such a party especially at the presidential level. For me it will be complete foolishness to still vote a party that every statistics available shows they performed far below standard. Again Tinubu told us that he already has his team to work with if he wins and when you look at his so called team they are the same people in this current government that has put 133 million Nigerians in poverty. My dear, that's a clear indication that we are headed for a more serious disaster if we ever elect APC again at the centre sentiments aside.
2: You said you asked your friends that live in Anambra and they complained of insecurity, lack of good roads and other amenities. Well my question is when did you ask them? Did you ask them when Peter Obi was in power or now after almost nine years Peter Obi left office? Did those your friends experience Anambra before Peter Obi came in and did they witness Anambra under Peter Obi? The truth is that everybody is entitled to his/her opinions but truth remains one. And that truth is that under Peter Obi Anambra state was declared the safest state in Nigeria for five consecutive years by the then IGP Mohamed Abubakar as even reported by The Nation Newspaper of 11th April, 2014. You can verify it ma. So under Obi, Anambra was far safer than Lagos. Obi was the first governor in Nigeria to demolish houses used for kidnapping. It's also verifiable ma. It's very wrong to use the state of insecurity in Anambra now to judge Obi that left office for about nine years ago. It's just like judging Yaradua's performance in office with the present state of insecurity in Nigeria. You said your friends complained of bad roads. Well, under Obi, the Federal Ministry of Works declared Anambra state as the state with the best network of roads including rural roads. Obi also won the UNDP price as the best governor in Nigeria in implementation of MDG goals. The MDG is a global development indices used in measuring development performance of public office holders. Obi was the best in Nigeria again defeating Lagos. I can testify to the road infrastructure during Obi because I was living in Enugu by then and Obi even used to repair and reconstruct Federal roads that pass through Anambra state. I am telling you this one as what I personally witnessed myself.
3: You tried to compare Anambra and Lagos in terms of infrastructure and booming business activities. Well, with every honesty it's very wrong comparison unless we just want to be insincere or just to score a political goal. Lagos was not built by any state governor not even Tinubu. Lagos was built by the Federal Government of Nigeria and that's the truth. And for being the Capital it's natural for Embassies and business headquarters to be in Lagos. Lagos was Nigeria's Capital for many decades. It was natural for Lagos to be the way it is. It's just like Abuja now. If our capital moves away from Abuja will any state governor claim to have built Abuja? Comparing Lagos and Anambra in terms of infrastructure and booming businesses is like comparing Lagos and Ekiti or comparing Abuja and Katsina. Again mind you FG has refused to allow other Ports to be operational except Lagos for whatever reason. Just imagine all goods coming into Nigeria coming through Anambra state only. Anambra can actually be compared with Lagos but not as you are comparing but by using global development indices checking how it was when a governor came into power and how it was when the same governor left power. By this it will be a standard measurement. With this we can now measure Lagos and Anambra during the time of Peter Obi and know how the two states performed during that period. The comparison is done towards the end of this write up. You also said that Tinubu sustained Lagos without Federal Allocation. Now truth be told it was not as though Tinubu did investments that brought economic boom in Lagos that made him sustain Lagos rather it was that he collected taxes from Lagosians and Lagos businesses. His idea of growing public wealth is in widening tax net and not necessarily economic policies and investments. That's why he seems to be obsessed with Agberos and tollgates. For him it's all about tax. I am not trying to run Tinubu down my sister but I am saying the obvious fact which even him Tinubu has said.
4: Let me give you few developmental achievements of Obi as a governor which he defeated his Lagos counterpart. a. He won the best governor in MDG goals in Nigeria defeating the entire 35 other governors including his Lagos counterpart. This means Obi improved Anambra more than he met it more than other state governors did to their own states during his time. b. Obi won the Governor of the decade award. Again he was the best governor in Nigeria for the entire decade defeating his Lagos counterpart. c. Obi moved Anambra from number 26 in WAEC to number 1. d. Anambra was the safest state in Nigeria as declared by the then IGP. Anambra was even safer than Lagos under Obi. e. The Federal Ministry of Works declared Anambra as the state with the best road network in Nigeria defeating Lagos. f. Under Obi Anambra was the least indebted state in Nigeria. He improved Anambra without borrowing. I can give you more but let me stop here for now. Please you can get most of the things I shared here at Peter Obi: A complete Profile (Vanguard Newspaper of 13th October, 2018)
5: Let's now use the international indices for measuring performance and show Anambra and Lagos under Obi. There are six indices we will use. The data is from a global renowned independent data organization called Global Data Lab (GDL): What we are checking is how did Anambra and Lagos improve under Obi. What are the rate of development for each state at the period and which state developed at a higher rate? I didn't want to bore you with the details of figures, I only extracted the percentages of growth to make it easier and less cumbersome. The figures are available at Global Data Lab Website.
A: GROSS INCOME PER CAPITA: Lagos:. 0.92% growth Anambra: 4.450%growth. Anambra performed better than Lagos.
B: LIFE EXPECTANCY: Lagos: 2.26 growth Anambra:10.12growth Again Anambra outperformed Lagos.
C: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX: Lagos: 5.40 growth Anambra: 15.82growth Anambra added more value than Lagos.
D: HEALTH INDEX: Lagos: 3.89 growth Anambra:16.30growth Anambra still beats Lagos
E: EDUCATION INDEX: Lagos: 10.73% growth Anambra: 22.5growth Anambra is still far ahead
F: INCOME INDEX: Lagos: 1.86% growth Anambra: 9.42growth Anambra still on top.
The indication simply is that Obi left Anambra better than he met it when compared to his Lagos counterpart.
6: The last thing that we must look at is the character of the individuals. While I always maintain that Obi is not a saint but truth is that we all know that he is better in character. He is far more trustworthy. When you look at how the two of them left office it's very clear. While the Lagos man did law to make him milk Lagos money in the name of pension and other entitlements running into millions upon millions of naira Obi doesn't collect shishi from the State government. Obi also cut down the cost of governance which was why he didn't borrow and he was still able to meet the MDG goals. This is very rare in Nigeria.
We must also agree that the Lagos man is no longer as healthy as he was in 1999. We all know what we suffered in Nigeria because our current president was not well. Please I am not mocking Tinubu because of sickness but I am stating an obvious fact.
Madam with every sincerity, if you have a personal company and the Lagos man and the Anambra man apply to manage your company, who will you employ among the two? Please see Nigeria as your personal company.
May God bless you immensely. Thanks for taking your time and for reading through. #PeterObi
The proper thing as a party is to use their performance for the past seven and half years to campaign. However, because they know they failed Nigerians so they don't want to use their performance to campaign.
So APC is now two; Buhari's APC and Tinubu's APC. Tinubu cannot separate himself from the current APC Central government. APC as we all know according to Federal Government figures has put more Nigerians in poverty. According to their own government agencies figures APC government has put Nigeria in worse situation economically than they met Nigeria.
For Tinubu to distance himself from the current APC Central government performance and be using Lagos to campaign when he Tinubu was an arrow head in bringing the current APC to power is a clear indication that APC as a political party cannot be trusted.
Well said! The solemn truth APC frantically trying with utter futility to run away from. Imagine Tinubu's ACN-dominated APC telling Nigerians that they want to deliver Nigeria from Buhari’s APC.
Racoon: Well said! The solemn truth APC frantically trying with utter futility to run away from. Imagine Tinubu's ACN-dominated APC telling Nigerians that they want to deliver Nigeria from Buhari’s APC.
Tinubu and buhari are two different people. Comparing tinubu and obi is an insult to tinubu. He increased the igr through tasking, what prevent obi from increasing igr through tasking since Anambra is home to billionaires?
Before 2020 endsars we've never experienced massacre like the one that happened under obi's tenure that he turned blind eye to.
Old Lagos was developed and organized by the British and fedral government. Other Lagos area like some lekki area, Epe , ikorodu, badagry etc were developed by awolowo since they were under western region then not Lagos as we have today.
Economically Anambra is not even mate with state like Ogun state and Oyo state. Anambra is more like and overhyped village tbh. Tinubu initiated free trade zone and today see ibeju-lekki Epe axis. Pitobi promised mono-rail but na okada rail dey Anambra lol.
Stop comparing white and black they're two different things.
A failure of 2012 became a messiah all of a sudden lol. A thread where Anambra people blasted obi, over 60k view on a thread that didn't hit front page lol.
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Tinubu and buhari are two different people. Comparing tinubu and obi is an insult to tinubu. He increased the igr through tasking, what prevent obi from increasing igr through tasking since Anambra is home to billionaires?
Before 2020 endsars we've never experienced massacre like the one that happened under obi's tenure that he turned blind eye to.
Old Lagos was developed and organized by the British and fedral government. Other Lagos area like some lekki area, Epe , ikorodu, badagry etc were developed by awolowo since they were under western region then not Lagos as we have today.
Economically Anambra is not even mate with state like Ogun state and Oyo state. Anambra is more like and overhyped village tbh. Tinubu initiated free trade zone and today see ibeju-lekki Epe axis. Pitobi promised mono-rail but na okada rail dey Anambra lol.
Stop comparing white and black they're two different things.
A failure of 2012 became a messiah all of a sudden lol. A thread where Anambra people blasted obi, over 60k view on a thread that didn't hit front page lol.
Of all the op said what you could come up with in defence is taxing and free trade zone. I cry for you, its really true that one must be stupid to be a BAT supporter
Of all the op said what you could come up with in defence is taxing and free trade zone. I cry for you, its really true that one must be stupid to be a BAT supporter
I don't need to go further too much. Tinubu survived without fedral allocation but people are demanding his head despite achievement without allocation.
Lagos IGR increase during tinubu tenure without fedral allocations is greater than what any Anambra governor can achieve.
Pitobi has a failed monorail project despite the fact that apga has been ruling the state unlike Lagos where same party built on tinubu lagacy.
Lekki free trade zone started by tinubu is greater than all Anambra governors project put together.
I don't need to go further too much. Tinubu survived without fedral allocation but people are demanding his head despite achievement without allocation.
Lagos IGR increase during tinubu tenure without fedral allocations is greater than what any Anambra governor can achieve.
Pitobi has a failed monorail project despite the fact that apga has been ruling the state unlike Lagos where same party built on tinubu lagacy.
Lekki free trade zone started by tinubu is greater than all Anambra governors project put together.
HIGHESTPOPORI: Lagos debts also increased in Billions of dollars
Yes you can see the groundbreaking projects. Blue line rail and redline rail with rice mill. Lagos IGR will be massive in coming years and more billions will be borrowed to complete 4mainland bridge.
Those state that save money with beer investment we can surely see their end result.
Is Tinubu Lagos State perpetual governors? I am not understanding, these projects you are quoting up and down that are still under construction whereas Tinubu left office since 2007 or are you saying that Buhari did not execute a single projects because the projects that are completed under Buhari administration is either started or initiated by Jonathan?
Yes you can see the groundbreaking projects. Blue line rail and redline rail with rice mill. Lagos IGR will be massive in coming years and more billions will be borrowed to complete 4mainland bridge.
Those state that save money with beer investment we can surely see their end result.
dominic17: Is Tinubu Lagos State perpetual governors? I am not understanding, these projects you are quoting up and down that are still under construction whereas Tinubu left office since 2007 or are you saying that Buhari did not execute a single projects because the projects that are completed under Buhari administration is either started or initiated by Jonathan?
If it's sanwo-olu that is contesting we'll commend him for continuity and finishing project of predecessors. But it his tinubu so you commend him for initiating those project.
Besides, seems you're been left behind. Is it the finish lekki deep seaport or the finished blue line rail or the finish rice mill that is under construction in your dreams?
Tinubu and buhari are two different people. Comparing tinubu and obi is an insult to tinubu. He increased the igr through tasking, what prevent obi from increasing igr through tasking since Anambra is home to billionaires?
Before 2020 endsars we've never experienced massacre like the one that happened under obi's tenure that he turned blind eye to.
Old Lagos was developed and organized by the British and fedral government. Other Lagos area like some lekki area, Epe , ikorodu, badagry etc were developed by awolowo since they were under western region then not Lagos as we have today.
Economically Anambra is not even mate with state like Ogun state and Oyo state. Anambra is more like and overhyped village tbh. Tinubu initiated free trade zone and today see ibeju-lekki Epe axis. Pitobi promised mono-rail but na okada rail dey Anambra lol.
Stop comparing white and black they're two different things.
A failure of 2012 became a messiah all of a sudden lol. A thread where Anambra people blasted obi, over 60k view on a thread that didn't hit front page lol.
Those who claim Lagos was built by FG have no single idea about how to make a state work What makes Lagos works are the institutions orchestrated by Tinubu and being executed by his successors. I will only believe FG made Lagos if it instituted the following LAMATA LASPA LASEMA and the rest. Stop making excuses of Obi if Zulum can do great things in Borno in the midst of security what stops him. Lagos has a million reasons not to work but it surmounted all. Spare us all your fairytales, Lagos is not joking
If it's sanwo-olu that is contesting we'll commend him for continuity and finishing project of predecessors. But it his tinubu so you commend him for initiating those project.
Besides, seems you're been left behind. Is it the finish lekki deep seaport or the finished blue line rail or the finish rice mill that is under construction in your dreams?
Tinubu is the only past Lagos state governor without a single fly over, a single KLM constructed in his name, Lagos was created in 1967, Anambra was created in 1991. Yet you go dey compare and contrast between Obi and Tinubu, Una urchins no get shame?
OKOATA: Tinubu is the only past Lagos state governor without a single fly over, a single KLM constructed in his name, Lagos was created in 1967, Anambra was created in 1991. Yet you go dey compare and contrast between Obi and Tinubu, Una urchins no get shame?
That's what I'm saying, Kano state and some other state created the same time with Lagos are not comparing rubbish to Lagos.
It's this Anambra village of yesterday that come online to compare trash! Anambra should compare with her mates. Thanks
That's what I'm saying, Kano state and some other state created the same time with Lagos are not comparing rubbish to Lagos.
It's this Anambra village of yesterday that come online to compare trash! Anambra should compare with her mates. Thanks
Guy you are a clown, you are here and there, what's your point all along, is it not to compare Lagos and Anambra. Better go meet your fellow urchins to play your sand sand play.
OKOATA: Guy you are a clown, you are here and there, what's your point all along, is it not to compare Lagos and Anambra. Better go meet your fellow urchins to play your sand sand play.
The OP started the comparison not me. I came to state clear difference.
He won the award for best performing governor on the eradication of polio in the South East and got $1m grant. Does that deserve accolade from your perspective?
Tinubu and buhari are two different people. Comparing tinubu and obi is an insult to tinubu. He increased the igr through tasking, what prevent obi from increasing igr through tasking since Anambra is home to billionaires?
Before 2020 endsars we've never experienced massacre like the one that happened under obi's tenure that he turned blind eye to.
Old Lagos was developed and organized by the British and fedral government. Other Lagos area like some lekki area, Epe , ikorodu, badagry etc were developed by awolowo since they were under western region then not Lagos as we have today.
Economically Anambra is not even mate with state like Ogun state and Oyo state. Anambra is more like and overhyped village tbh. Tinubu initiated free trade zone and today see ibeju-lekki Epe axis. Pitobi promised mono-rail but na okada rail dey Anambra lol.
Stop comparing white and black they're two different things.
A failure of 2012 became a messiah all of a sudden lol. A thread where Anambra people blasted obi, over 60k view on a thread that didn't hit front page lol.
I don't need to go further too much. Tinubu survived without fedral allocation but people are demanding his head despite achievement without allocation.
Lagos IGR increase during tinubu tenure without fedral allocations is greater than what any Anambra governor can achieve.
Pitobi has a failed monorail project despite the fact that apga has been ruling the state unlike Lagos where same party built on tinubu lagacy.
Lekki free trade zone started by tinubu is greater than all Anambra governors project put together.
The comparison is just dumb tbh.
The highlighted is a big lie from the pit of hell according to tvc journalist babajide otitoju
Firstly,Lagos state was never and I repeat never deprived of state and LGA allocation from the Fg during Obasanjo's administration! Tinubu created extra LGs against the warning of Obasanjo and the then president instructed the then minister of finance to only pay state and LG allocations in Lagos that were known and recognised by the FG...this is a known fact and even tvc journalist hangout that happens to have a soft spot for BAT debunked that narrative of zero allocation from FG! Secondly,it will be unfair and unjust to compare anambra with Lagos! Anambra was never a capital but Lagos was hence you don't expect anambra to compete with Lagos in terms of infrastructure or IGR! Its like comparing abia state to rivers state! The comparison should be what the former governors did and were able to achieve during their time in office...was security better in their state? What about infrastructural development? Did the health sector or educational sector or agric sector improve during their time? How were they able to use resources available to them during their tenor in office? These are the questions that should be asked!
Na where peace dey na there development fit come. Lagos is a no man's land. MM ticket/leader is the last thing Nigeria needs now. Baba is old and sense able Nigerians are tired of leaders that associates their failure to old age. Aso rock is not for retirement.
APC supporters are shameless! Lagos was a mega city even before they married TINUBUs mother! I guess this kind of false narrative was why Babangida moved the capital to Abuja.
With all the IGR, Tinubu still left Lagos in huge Debt. What's the living standard of an average native in Lagos compared to natives in Anambra!
