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A former front runner for the PDP governorship ticket in Lagos, Babatunde Gbadamosi, has reeled out the many evils perpetuated by Tinubu and his cronies since he became governor of Lagos State.

Read and decide for yourself if Igbos are the problem of Lagos like Tinubu boys have been pushing or Lagos has a bigger fundamental problem in the structure of criminality institutionalized by Tinubu that needs to be dislodged.

Or it’s ok for Tinubu to continue his thieving enterprise in Lagos because GRV’s mother is Igbo?

Babatunde Gbadamosi

@BOGbadams
Dear Lagosians,

In 1980, Alhaji Lateef Jakande started the construction of the then non-existent Lekki-Epe Expressway, to connect the Eastern axis of Lagos State by road to the rest of Lagos.

By December 1983, when Muhammadu Buhari & his band i of coupists struck, he had completed it to up to 53km, at Ibeju-Agbe town.

Buhari ordered a stop to ALL development works in Lagos State, including the Metro Rail Line Project that had already been paid for in full, & the Lekki-Epe Expressway.

Commodore Gbolahan Mudashiru, appointed Governor by Buhari, an indigene of Ikorodu, Lagos State, instead reduced the scope of the project to single carriageway and connected Ibeju-Lekki to Epe regardless.

In 2003/2004, Tinubu, from Iragbiji, in Osun State, signed the Lagos State PPP board. In 2006, he suddenly announced that LCC had "won" the concession for the Lekki-Epe Expressway, with no public or private bidding process, & the project was valued at ₦50b at the time.

He then also announced the transfer of 1500 hectares of prime, beach front land to Messrs ARM Ltd, gratis, as Lagos State's "contribution" to the funding of the Lekki-Epe Expressway "expansion" project. Lagos State was selling plots at Abijo Residential Scheme at the time at ₦5m per plot. The 22,500 plots at Lakowe would therefore cost about ₦67.5b, with a 40% discount off Abijo, just 10 minutes away.

Not long after, a $42m "mezzanine loan" was granted to LCC/ARM by LASG! Again, more state contribution to the ostensibly "private" project.

The concession agreement grants sweeping powers to LCC, & is reminiscent of colonial "protectorate" agreements in its letter and its spirit, but that was always the intention, as we have seen over time.

The Lakowe land was used as collateral for a $340m syndicated loan, provided in tranches of $85m each by UBA Capital (Elumelu - now you understand the "Prezzdential" visit), Stanbic IBTC, Standard Bank of South Africa and African Development Bank (years before Akinwunmi Adeshina).

Tolling began when construction barely reached km 6, and the construction remains UNCOMPLETED till date. 17 years under construction, for a dual carriageway that was at 53km within 3 years, FORTY YEARS AGO!

I keep hearing 4th Mainland Bridge, at almost ₦1 trillion as of 2019. With the devaluation of the ₦ since then, we're looking easily at over ₦1 trillion now, plus another 20 years to complete, based on their record on Lekki-Epe Expressway, plus 50 years tolling, and the near complete demolition of Ikorodu, Badore and parts of Lekki from behind the Lagos Business School.

If you still vote for APC in Lagos State after reading this, you deserve everything that will surely befall you if they win.

Postscript: At the height of Tolling of Lekki-Epe Expressway & Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, a certain individual was earning a fantastic sum running into hundreds of millions DAILY in CASH. Now you understand the kerfuffle surrounding the new notes.

You also understand the why of the #LekkiTollGateMassacre

Nlfpmod
Mynd44

Politicians will always do everything to protect their selfish interests by creating ethnic and religious division. Most of the people who you see here just like the fetish idiot that exposed his face me I face you room and whose greatest life achievement is eating a plate of food in a restaurant possibly owned by the daughter of a politician who is way younger than him is a good example.
The people are awake except for a dumb minority.
I asked an urchin what he knows about the IGR of Lagos and he said that the guy is too young and cannot lead Lagos. I was just tired.
Godfatherism can never lead a state to achieve its maximum potential.

Some faceless Yorubas spo sponsored by the ruling class are the problems. The fact that they suddenly tag anyone contesting against the ruling party as "Igbo" shows the hatred in their hearts and how bigoted they are. Jimi Agbaje was tagged Igbo simply because Igbos wanted to vote him. Now GRV whose lineage once had the Iyalode of Lagos is suddenly not Yoruba and "Chinedu"

They will tag gbadamosi igbo too. They will say he was sponsored.
The hate for igbos by yorubas is real.

They will say Gbadomosi mother is from Anambra

Same way APC is belittling LP was how PDP belittled APC pre-2015. Today they have performed worse than PDP ever did in all sphere yet refuse to respect the voices of the people and are once again presenting the Igbo's as the scapegoat by taggging LP an Igbo/Christian party.

Nbote:
Some faceless Yorubas spo sponsored by the ruling class are the problems. The fact that they suddenly tag anyone contesting against the ruling party as "Igbo" shows the hatred in their hearts and how bigoted they are. Jimi Agbaje was tagged Igbo simply because Igbos wanted to vote him. Now GRV whose lineage once had the Iyalode of Lagos is suddenly not Yoruba and "Chinedu"

Exactly!

But what’s funny to me is that they employed this same propaganda against Peter Obi and it failed woefully. Now, they are back with the same propaganda against GRV and trust me, it would fail as well.

Tinubu BATstards think Yorubas are northerners who are mostly illiterates and cannot verify facts by themselves.

All these shouts of “IPOB will takeover Lagos” is a very stupid narrative that will be laughed at by any Yoruba with the smallest thinking faculty.

IPOB propaganda didn’t work on Obi, it won’t work on GRV.

Lagos must be free!

He's igbo

Anyone who goes against their lies is igbo

izombie:
They will tag gbadamosi igbo too. They will say he was sponsored.
The hate for igbos by yorubas is real.

The hate that you people started, you think you have monopoly of hate. You haven’t seen anything yet, it is just starting.

Tinubu need to let lagos State have some breath of fresh air

ok

izombie:
They will tag gbadamosi igbo too. They will say he was sponsored.
The hate for igbos by yorubas is real.

Well, I don’t think it’s right to claim that all Yorubas hate Igbo; that would amount to fallacy of over-generalization.

I think only the idiots who have sold their medulla oblongata to Tinubu for crumbs are the ones spreading hate. But the good news is that they are few in number.

chiefoga:
The hate that you people started, you think you have monopoly of hate. You haven’t seen anything yet, it is just starting.

You are insane. You started the hatred now u want to gaslight someone else. Aren't you the ones destroying Igbo peoples properties and asking them not to vote?

You all are simply mad.

Bobloco:
Tinubu need to let lagos State have some breath of fresh air

I think the man would rather return the paper INEC gave him than lose Lagos.

But he will still lose woefully.