₦airaland Forum

yewit37486:
What do you mean held it together as expected and bowing out to a standing ovation?!! Are we so used to mediocrity we think this current state of Lagos is acceptable? Have you seen the heaps of refuse along both major and inner roads, literally almost everywhere in the state? Have you seen the terribly bad roads and the impact on car owners and bus drivers? Have you seen what people are experiencing? Wow. O ga o. Btw, God does not bless mediocrity so leave His name out of this.

bolaayenimo:
That Fubara own is glaring nah

SixSeven:
Is it his fault that he has mentally checked out? Even after all he did, they still found a way to blame him for Tinubu's loss in Lagos, they almost called him odale (betrayer). They don't trust themselves. Politics without principles can never ever last, it's just turn by turn transaction. I will show you politics gang


This is what happens when you are never allowed to be a man of your own. You get worned out. What's the worst that could happen?

Just like Sanwo-Olu, the Rivers Governor has also checked out. Sorry

Buccalcavity2:
Did baba kékeré also build 2 functional rail lines? Sanwoolu is a success already. Others should takeover from where he stopped.
The write up doesnt even have metrics for measuring state govt. Just some personal opinion.

SixSeven:
Rail lines built in 15 years. Color me surprised

And just if you don't know some of the history.
Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the first civilian governor of Lagos State, originally conceived the ambitious Lagos Metroline project in 1983 to ease the city's heavy traffic.

It was proposed during the Second Nigerian Republic by Governor Lateef Jakande and awarded to Interinfra, a French consortium.

Who scrapped it? It was scrapped in 1985 by the military administration of General Muhammadu Buhari due to economic and funding concerns, causing major financial losses. In fact it was one of the things they used as campaign against Buhari before una visionaries partnered with the same Buhari as a reformed democrat to enter there 🤡


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgNI2ZUqn1k


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

Baba Kekere even had advice for governors when interviewed only if you are patient enough to listen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOHkti8v5PI

You can't buy reputation bro. Give service you will see results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyvrcNE3Is

Buccalcavity2:
Mr Itanforiti! I didnt ask for epistles. Did baba kékeré construct 2 rail lines? Sanwoolu did. This is to adress your lopsided comparison.
No governor/subnationals in Nigeria constructed 2 rail lines in one tenure. Not one!

mohbadliveson:
By Temidayo Akinsuyi



https://www.thecable.ng/sanwo-olu-from-a-promising-start-to-a-troubling-finish/

badoh:
It is easy to criticize those in government. Why not throw your hat in the ring and let's see how far you can bring the required change. Imagine him calling Sanwo-Olu a failure. Did you even acknowledge some of his numerous achievements before coming out to say he's a failure. As long as he's in APC and Tinubu brought him, anything he achieves is nothing to you.

honeyB2018:
Can you see your mentality?
I'm glad the one who wrote this piece, is a Yorubaman, not another tribe, people like you should have asked him to go back to his State.
Can't you see that in Lagos State, governance is taking the back seat? He praised him for a good begining but asked him to have a good ending, but you are angry for what he wrote.
Can't Tinubu and anyone he brought be criticized for crying out loud? Are they God, that can't do wrong?
What nonsense is this kind of slave mentality, where you don't have a say of your own, even when you are dying because of selfish loyalty
May God show people mercy.

Eriokanmi:
Story to the gods...

My dad is from an Akoko Town A YORUBA COMMUNITY in Edo State, same way Hon John Faleke, a reps member and one of my mentors is from a yoruba speaking tribe of Kogi State. However, I'm Lagosian both by virtue of maternity and by birth. I don't even claim edo even though dad is from there but that's my root. He was also born in Lagos. My birth certificate and state of origin say Lagos and not Edo. Whether Doherty's forebears were captured slaves or not is totally out of context here. So far he was born in Lagos, a lagosian and with a strong ancestral relationship, that makes him an indigene. both of us are bona fide indigenes of Lagos.

Is Babafemi hamzat an indigene of lagos, is sanwoolu an indigene of Lagos? You can answer that yourself. Whether ijebu extends from ogun into lagos or not, we have boundaries. If you fall out of this boundary formation, you're not part of us. We have epe eko and epe ijebu yes, same epe. Those on the side of epe ijebu can never claim to be Lagosians . Hope that's clear.

SixSeven:
Rail lines built in 15 years. Color me surprised

And just if you don't know some of the history.
Alhaji Lateef Jakande, the first civilian governor of Lagos State, originally conceived the ambitious Lagos Metroline project in 1983 to ease the city's heavy traffic.

It was proposed during the Second Nigerian Republic by Governor Lateef Jakande and awarded to Interinfra, a French consortium.

Who scrapped it? It was scrapped in 1985 by the military administration of General Muhammadu Buhari due to economic and funding concerns, causing major financial losses. In fact it was one of the things they used as campaign against Buhari before una visionaries partnered with the same Buhari as a reformed democrat to enter there 🤡


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgNI2ZUqn1k


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

Baba Kekere even had advice for governors when interviewed only if you are patient enough to listen


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOHkti8v5PI

You can't buy reputation bro. Give service you will see results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyvrcNE3Is

AlphaTaikun:
You made a nice post there.

However, I have a 1985 copy of Chief MKO Abiola's magazine publication entitled, "African Concord" in one of my personal libraries/archives where the then Military government led by the senior Airforce officer, Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru took credit for the cancellation of the Lagos Metroline projects. Mudashiru confessed in the interview with the magazine that he personally terminated it and was planning to reaward the project. However, the notoriously corrupt Military government of Ibrahim Babangida took over and that was the end of that project. That was how the Military played ping pong with that project after easing Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru out. However, BETTER now, the Blue, Red rail lines are in full swing and impending Green line linking Lagos Island to the Lekki Peninsula is much awaited.

So, for the records, it wasn't the then Head-of-State, Muhammad Buhari that scrapped the Lagos Metroline project BUT the then Military government of Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru of Lagos State. A lot of people like to bandy around the FALSE accusation that it was Buhari that scrapped that project but Gbolahan Mudashiru took responsibility for the termination of the then Lagos Metroline [being overseen by the biological father of the current Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat who was the then Lagos State Commissioner for Works in Governor Abdulateef Jakande's government from 1979 to 1983] with the intention to reaward the contract.

SixSeven:
Thank you for the response. I think this is semantics too because we all know how the military is/was, Mudashiru could never take that step without approval from his boss. When Buhari's military government stopped the project, claiming the costs were too high amidst a general purge of civilian politicians. Buhari too has also admitted canceling the rail line. He even used it to campaign for CPC and AC used it to attack him before they married themselves in 2014.

From the archives, it detailed how Buhari's appointed Lagos Military Governor, Commodore Mudashiru Lawal, acting on federal fiscal directives, declared the 698.5 million contract with Interinfra unsustainable. Let's not forget the French consortium, Interinfra took the matter to court and successfully sued for breach of contract.


If I had time, I would post archival reports here too but look at it, we are 40 years late. Had that project been completed, we would have gone faaaaaaaaaaaaaar today. What a waste.

Why I Cancelled Lagos Metroline Project-buhari
https://www.nairaland.com/640867/why-cancelled-lagos-metroline-project-buhari

AlphaTaikun:
SixSeven, read the Post Script [P.S.] right BELOW for another perspective from a book written about former Governor Abdulateef Jakande by Dr. 'Bola Olaosebikan. What super clean, fantastic archival sources are you using? Are they personal or public domain archival materials?

Whoa! I wish Group Captain Gbolahan Mudashiru (rtd) is still alive as of today to respond to some historical specifics here. However, I'm aware his wife was into mechanised agribusiness in Lagos State and she might have some perspectives which her late spouse shared with her while in that Military government and knowing FULL well as you stated that the French consortium, "Interinfra" took the matter to court and successfully sued for breach of contract.

Why take overall credit for the Lagos Metroline project cancelation in that "African Concord" Magazine when his then Military boss was the one who "nudged" him on? I mean, Mudashiru spoke with his FULL chest in that 1985 interview and that same month of August 1985, Babangida and his goons overthrow Buhari in that coup.

When I have the time, I'll have that "Africa Concord" magazine scanned and let you have it for future keeps and reference. These are the kinds of historical references that we MUST NEVER forget to avoid second-hand fables being told and retold. The knowledge of history is key for preventing future errors of judgement.



I appreciate your honest feedbacks here and your attention to details.


P.S. Here's another perspective right in the two Weblinks right BELOW:

[1]
http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

[2] https://www.nairaland.com/2202067/cancelling-metroline-major-mistake-jakande

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was NOT responsible for the cancellation of the project.


The author of the book, Olaosebikan, said he was motivated to write about Jakande in 1994 after he met the former governor.

He said that his findings as recorded in the book showed that Buhari did NOT abort the metroline project as being claimed but that ‘certain forces’ terminated the project.

http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

As if Jakande was prophesying, the metroline project has remained just what he saw it to be: a dream.

Mudashiru, now air force commodore, who became Lagos State governor after the military terminated the Second Republic December 31. 1983, thought the project was a gold mine for the politicians. The governor was less than three weeks old in office when Akangbe Kenku, a professor, who was his commissioner of trans- port, announced January 25, 1984, that the metroline project had been scrapped because it was "over priced." The decision was a big blow to the long-suffering Lagos commuters who had looked forward to the metroline for relief from their transportation problems, and Mudashiru was greeted by a barrage of criticisms. Said THE GUARDIAN in an editorial: "The metroline project is abandoned at the wrong time, under wrong circumstances and for all the wrong reasons

Mudashiru then tried to recover the N75 million which had already been sunk into the project from Inter-Infra, the French consortium which was jointly fina financing and constructing the metroline system. To make sure the project was never resurrected, the sites that were alloted for the construction of discharge terminals were shared out to individuals and companies to build houses and offices. At the same time, equipment, machinery and tools brought in by the French consortium for the job were sold out, contrary to conclusions by two separatc contrary to conclusions two separate government-appointed probe panels that the project was properly concerved and remained the only viable solu- tion to transporiation nightmare in Lagos metropolis.

SixSeven:
I have seen this story you cited where Jakande himself said whoever it was who canceled it, they know why they did. Have we forgotten that Buhari was the head of state in LAGOS Abuja wasn't the capital then. Maybe it's unfair to say Wike will do anything today without the President's approval but I understand what you mean in terms of what was on ground then.