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casualobserver:
I was in the UK 20 years ago when I first heard of 4th mainland bridge and Lekki airport. I was so excited. Alas 20 years later still waiting, meanwhile population has doubled.

Have you been on the new (state) concrete rd to Epe? If you have you will notice some sections that previously had BRT concrete barriers slabs that were removed. Only lagos APC in their infinite mediocrity would design an intercity highway with BRT barriers (just like Ikorodu road).

Nobody thought to think that if a bus breaks down on the BRT lane, It would create a pile up of buses that can’t exit the BRT lane because of the barriers and then you would then have other buses and cars sharing the other 2 lanes. Not only that, what happens if a car breaks down? He has no way to exit but to sit and take up a lane creating traffic. I don’t know if you can picture what I am saying. I passed there at the early stages of construction and I thought what a bunch of muppets! I also passed recently and am glad to see they have seen the error of their ways and removed the BRT lane but the point is this is the intellectual capacity of these people.

I dont rate Sanwo-Olu. He is the muppet who thought it was a good idea to introduce a toll gate on a bridge right by a roundabout. Maybe you’ve forgotten the traffic it used to cause.

AlphaTaikun:
@casualobserver

Oh yes, I understand the thrust of your post.
20 years now since those 2 impending mega projects came into our consciousness... How time flies.

Those two major projects (4th Mainland Bridge and the Lekki-Epe International Airport ought to have been rounded off by now) and that would have saved the overall costs of construction. As part of the Lagos State Master Plan though, successive Governors and their teams were able to finish (via PPP) the Lekki Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), the Lekki Deep Sea Port, and leased huge tracts of land for the construction of the Dangote Petrochemical Refinery in Ibeju-Lekki. I commend 'Bola Tinubu and his team for initiating and overseeing the conclusion of some of those projects but there's still a lot more to be done.

For instance, it's the intangibles that really matter for many folks who care about long-term livability and welfare of Lagos State such as having proper urban waste disposal whereby urban refuse can be turned to harmless organic fertilizer for agriculture/biogas for cooking/thermal energy for electricity, public toilets can be built in strategic areas to be replaced with modern biogas toilets which generate cooking gas and electricity from gas from human wastes, facilities management of government infrastructure such as street or highway lights and buildings have been poor. After 3-4 years of the commissioning of both government buildings and government vehicles they start looking rickety.

That BRT lane construction on the concrete road to Epe that you talked about should NEVER been there in the first place. Removing it again further shows how wastages occur due to a deficiency in "project management" skills. I

Once again the lack of a "sense of urgency" and foresight on the part of some of these people can be very enervating.


Right BELOW is a reaction video on the temporary opening as of yesterday [December 12, 2025] of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway (Lagos end)

BREAKING: The Coastal Road Is Open! I Drove From Eko Atlantic to Eleko — No More Traffic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so0cOzrhPDo
LekVibe •

casualobserver:
Start to observe and will notice that most projects successfully completed and completed to a good standard are Projects executed by private capital or PPP. It seems that once a job wholly involves Lagos APC often what is “left” is not enough to do a decent job. That’s why their jobs are usually of a poor standard or they don’t stand the test of time.

AlphaTaikun:
Indeed, I'm on the same page with you on that PPP issue. A few months ago in 2025 right here in NL, we analysed some road projects undertaken by some Lagos LGAs, and looking deeply at the pictures of some of the roads ATTACHED to the thread(s), some of the roads looked crooked (despite the fact that the road had covered drains and side walks that also looked like their constructions where rushed so they looked annoyingly uneven looks.

I had to propose on that same NL thread that Lagos State Government and the citizens MUST ensure that all the Lagos LGAs and LCDAs MUST have one universal construction standard and NOT carry out shoddy jobs during construction on public infrastructure.

casualobserver:
Picture below says everything you need to know about Lagos APC. Some of his fans are saying this is one of SanwoOlu’s flagship deliveries in the health sector.

Please look at a flagship center that looks like it was designed by a draftsman with tacky looking red roof, blue windows, brown and beige paint crooked signage and a design that looks like something from the 1950s.

This is just one example of Lagos APC’s idea of excellence in 2025!

If you disburse N5000 to buy bread but only N700 of it gets to my hand, I can only come back with N700 bread. I can get you the best bread for N2000, I can get you decent bread for N1200-1500 but since I only got N700 all I can deliver is N 700 bread and it is N700 for a reason.

casualobserver:
Picture below says everything you need to know about Lagos APC. Some of his fans are saying this is one of SanwoOlu’s flagship deliveries in the health sector.

Please look at a flagship center that looks like it was designed by a draftsman with tacky looking red roof, blue windows, brown and beige paint crooked signage and a design that looks like something from the 1950s.

This is just one example of Lagos APC’s idea of excellence in 2025!

If you disburse N5000 to buy bread but only N700 of it gets to my hand, I can only come back with N700 bread. I can get you the best bread for N2000, I can get you decent bread for N1200-1500 but since I only got N700 all I can deliver is N 700 bread and it is N700 for a reason.

muyico:
Is executive order
Juciary can't challenge it

AlphaTaikun:
One thing I like about APC folks at the Federal Government level and APC Lagos level is that if you call them out and offer solutions as well either via their official social media handles or directly to some senior officiaks, they'll listen to you. I've seen that pattern play out within the last 2 years. Like you emphasized, APC though filled with some mediocrities is still a little better than other parties and this is hoping that they take a cue and upgrade themselves to be more responsive to real time situations occuring around them.[/i]

casualobserver:
Maybe some, but I have seen one of their key SAs in particular repeatedly acting arrogantly and condescending on social media towards genuine criticism and suggestions. More disturbing is that he is someone some suggest as a potential future governor (not 2027).

In fact the exchange I read and his responses is the day I said I would never vote for APC in state elections. Like I said I won’t vote for any other party because they are also equally or probably more incompetent but I will never leave my house to vote APC in Lagos state, let the chips fall where they fall. Tokunbo wahab is the only person I can leave my house to vote for. He is a descent person and you can tell he is one of the few who still has a sense of right and wrong.

AlphaTaikun:
That SA must have a really brusque temperament that's 1000 times worse than what Obasa has ever been accused of by others for you to give that kind of damning feedback about his person and his repeated poor handling of constructive criticisms. That type of SA must never be the future Governor of Ipinle Eko if he has NO emotional intelligence.

'Tokunbo Wahab might not get the ticket even though he's well-spoken and educated, but I don't see 'Femi Gbaja there either. I suspect that Muri-Okunola might be the next one in line. Ambode might not make it back to complete a final term as claimed by some. Someone with the near-temperament of a Babatunde Raji-Fashola who can come up with creative iconic projects such as the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, someone like Raji-Fashola whohas a deep love for nature by beautifying the Lagos environment with plants to give off oxygen and absorb carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, someone who respects traffic lights and drives around without sirens, etc.

I don't want to see 'Seyi there for now because he needs to show more self-discipline and introspection. How can 'Seyi, (a young man of 40 who is also a lawyer) just allow all kinds of creeps defame his father with deliberately fabricated disinformation here on NL and other online platforms calling his father a d*ug baron despite the FACT that he wasn't charged for any crimes back in 1993. These monikers ought to have faced justice and serve time in jail for defamation of character. The uncertainty surrounding the disinformation around his father, 'Bola Tinubu over the fake d*ug baron story definitely led to his loss by 10,000 votes to the other guy because a powerful strand of Yoruba voters in Lagos who were not convinced about the morality surrounding the disinformation being spread online and offline around his academic records and that recircled drug issue in voted against him.

casualobserver:
HMO to me is as Lagos APC as you get. The problem I have is exactly with these sort of people. The guy I am talking about is a mini HMO. They are part of the Political structure of Lagos APC and they know no other way.



People like Fashola, Wahab, Osinbajo, Cardozo, Edun etc are not really APC political structure. They are fundamentally private sector professionals or technocrats as we like to call them so they tend to have a sense of professionalism and standards. They may have been compromised in their standards by having to work with these people but they are fundamentally a different breed.

When I refered in a previous post to APC Lagos political family, it is people like Gbaja, HMO and this young SA, I am talking about.

HMO is a career civil servant and a key member of the Lagos political Family. He is part of the furniture, part of the system. IMHO, There is nothing that has happened in Lagos since 1999 good or bad that has not become part of his DNA……he knows no other way. So when I say I am not happy with Lagos APC, he is not the solution. It’s like wanting to reform a Federal ministry and bringing in a man who started his career in that ministry and became a permanent secretary. He entire career, professional (or unprofessional) habits and mindset have been formed in that organization and is exactly the thing you are trying to reform. Whatever rot exists in that ministry he is a part of. IMHO, You don’t rise to the top in a rotten system without being a part of the system. All you are going to get is more of the same. You don’t for example say you want to reform NNPC and appoint a GMD who spent all his life in NNPC or ministry of petroleum, if you are serious you bring a Bayo Ojulari from Shell.

I have nothing against HMO personally but having been part of the governance and political structure of Lagos since 1999, to me he represents more of the same mediocrity and exactly the kind of person I don’t want to see as governor.

It’s one thing to be an appointee from the private sector for a few years but you don’t remain in a system for more or less your entire working life and not become the system yourself.


PS: the idea of Seyi as governor is a joke gone too far. I don’t think even he himself or anyone from APC takes it seriously.

Lagos APC has become too comfortable in their mediocrity. Ordinarily they deserve to be kicked out for a term or 2 to rest their brains but unfortunately Gbadebo, Jandor and Doherty are a bunch of clowns and not viable options……same story at the Federal level.

Tinubu is doing well at the Federal level but it is also because his boys can’t operate at the Federal level with the opacity and standards of project delivery they are used to in Lagos. Nonetheless you still see the Lagos APC DNA in his boys from the flip flopping of policy and tardiness in certain respects of administration. Leaked official docs from presidency, 15% petrol duty today, gone tomorrow, appointment of dead people without vetting the list, granting pardons to terrorists or people whose case is still in court….etc etc. these are the hallmark of the amateurism and anyhowness of his footssoldiers from Lagos that are hallmarks of how they operated in Lagos.