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The 27 screens video wall which receives live feeds from the over 1,200 security cameras deployed around Lagos State being demonstrated during a presentation to the Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola

aresa:
This is where many of you get it all wrong. All the talk about Lagos used to be this and that are nothing but deceptive and disingenuous and I'll explain to you the reason why.



1. Fashola and Akpabio entered office the same year/The same time

2. Everything posted about Fashola in this thread was done by Fashola within his 8 years and nothing before him or belonging to the FG.

3. Fashola inherited meager resources in form of allocations and IGR while Akpabio with just 5 million people entered office with abundant oil money.

4. Lagos state's IGR that many of you make ignorance noise about amounts to little in the grand scheme of this.

20 billion/month IGR = 20 x 12 = N240 billion.


FG allocation is N10 billion monthly

N10 billion x 12 = N120

= N240 billion + 120 = N360 billion

So, the IGR you people make so much noise about is nothing when it comes to the actual money Lagos state operates with in for of budget.

N360 billion for 20 million people is chump change and Lagos state still have to borrow money to get up to it's N400+ billion yearly budgets.

Do your research or educate yourself about these states before making ill informed comments.


Akpabio on the other hand with just 5 million people budgets over N500 billion yearly IGR or no IGR.



Bottomline, Akpabio has more money than Lagos state and Akwa Ibom is many times richer than Lagos state.


Now about the projects you listed for Akpabio.


This thread is about completed and commissioned projects and to my knowledge apart from the roads and flyover, Akpabio completed only only 3 projects in his 8 years in office and they are the 1 library, 1 football field and 1 cinema. Feel free to prove me wrong.


I gave you folks the opportunity to post his completed projects, but you did not, obviously because there's non beyond the ones I posted.

Akpabio as the governor of the richest state in Nigeria can not fill more than half a page on NL with his completed and commissioned projects.


..but I can fill more than NL pages with Fashola's projects. That's a fact...


Let's get our facts straight and just kill that IGR noise because it's nothing and Akpabio still has more budget money passed every year than Fashola....

aresa:
When people make claims you do not agree with, you prove them wrong with your own facts and if you can not, shut your mouth and take a seat instead of blabbing your ignorant mouth..

brightcom:
I understand but what abt d two underground drainage completed n commissioned, one in calabar-itu highway, one in Abak town, Abak bridge is 100% completed. Government is completed. Outfall drain dt started from ring road area is completed, d access road der is on course, d specialist hospital is completed, on decorating state, four point hotel is completed, just arranging d car parks for commissioning next week, was der today to check it, remember oil n gas plant d former governor started since 2003 n left, he finished it n commissioned it by GEJ,completed 5 bridges, look at schools he worked on, i hv refused to talk abt roads cos its visible to d blind. My bro ones again neva compare him wt lagos cos lagos has gone far b4 akwa ibom started existing, u cant compare nigeria n usa even if nigeria gets more money dan usa d3y can neva b lik usa in 8years. Wen u talk of all dis money remember he pays also of compersation to his ppl cos of his love for dem to us it n start of life, u can ask his ppl wat dey r doing wt d money. If u hv d can of ppl dt are in lagos here dt r ready to develop here lik lagos, u will over love akwa ibom. Akwa ibom name is in guiness book of record, its a great achievement. Akwa ibom get 5star la meridian hotel n gulf course, bro dis man has done alot if not for anytin for bringing d name of akwa ibom for timid village to a transformed great state n making dem leave ur house from been house help to great ppl, he build a great future for dem, many of us in dis nairaland if we hv d opportunity to b der will eat all d money wtout working. The short form of dis message is dt he is a great transformer. Thanks

brightcom:
I understand but what abt d two underground drainage completed n commissioned, one in calabar-itu highway, one in Abak town, Abak bridge is 100% completed. Government is completed. Outfall drain dt started from ring road area is completed, d access road der is on course, d specialist hospital is completed, on decorating state, four point hotel is completed, just arranging d car parks for commissioning next week, was der today to check it, remember oil n gas plant d former governor started since 2003 n left, he finished it n commissioned it by GEJ,completed 5 bridges, look at schools he worked on, i hv refused to talk abt roads cos its visible to d blind. My bro ones again neva compare him wt lagos cos lagos has gone far b4 akwa ibom started existing, u cant compare nigeria n usa even if nigeria gets more money dan usa d3y can neva b lik usa in 8years. Wen u talk of all dis money remember he pays also of compersation to his ppl cos of his love for dem to us it n start of life, u can ask his ppl wat dey r doing wt d money. If u hv d can of ppl dt are in lagos here dt r ready to develop here lik lagos, u will over love akwa ibom. Akwa ibom name is in guiness book of record, its a great achievement. Akwa ibom get 5star la meridian hotel n gulf course, bro dis man has done alot if not for anytin for bringing d name of akwa ibom for timid village to a transformed great state n making dem leave ur house from been house help to great ppl, he build a great future for dem, many of us in dis nairaland if we hv d opportunity to b der will eat all d money wtout working. The short form of dis message is dt he is a great transformer. Thanks

brightcom:
I understand but what abt d two underground drainage completed n commissioned, one in calabar-itu highway, one in Abak town, Abak bridge is 100% completed. Government is completed. Outfall drain dt started from ring road area is completed, d access road der is on course, d specialist hospital is completed, on decorating state, four point hotel is completed, just arranging d car parks for commissioning next week, was der today to check it, remember oil n gas plant d former governor started since 2003 n left, he finished it n commissioned it by GEJ,completed 5 bridges, look at schools he worked on, i hv refused to talk abt roads cos its visible to d blind. My bro ones again neva compare him wt lagos cos lagos has gone far b4 akwa ibom started existing, u cant compare nigeria n usa even if nigeria gets more money dan usa d3y can neva b lik usa in 8years. Wen u talk of all dis money remember he pays also of compersation to his ppl cos of his love for dem to us it n start of life, u can ask his ppl wat dey r doing wt d money. If u hv d can of ppl dt are in lagos here dt r ready to develop here lik lagos, u will over love akwa ibom. Akwa ibom name is in guiness book of record, its a great achievement. Akwa ibom get 5star la meridian hotel n gulf course, bro dis man has done alot if not for anytin for bringing d name of akwa ibom for timid village to a transformed great state n making dem leave ur house from been house help to great ppl, he build a great future for dem, many of us in dis nairaland if we hv d opportunity to b der will eat all d money wtout working. The short form of dis message is dt he is a great transformer. Thanks

ekiloui:
Aresa, nice thread, although I can see a bit of a bias here, I've seen so many structures from Fashola on this thread and I have to ask, is that really how we'll weigh their achievements, and besides in all fairness, what you posted on Akpabio isn't up to a quarter of the achievements I've seen here on NL. I'm from neither Lagos of Akwa Ibom so I'm speaking without sentiment, I think you should do more research on Akpabio.

Meanwhile, the pictures of the estates on this thread...where they built or funded in anyway by the lagos Government?

I think Fashola has achieved a lot, nice structures and all, but I still believe Lagos is ugly, especially the mainland. The Governor who will transform the Mainland is the one who'll have the highest achievements. Let's hope Ambode can do it.

ekiloui:
I think Fashola has achieved a lot, nice structures and all, but I still believe Lagos is ugly, especially the mainland. The Governor who will transform the Mainland is the one who'll have the highest achievements. Let's hope Ambode can do it.

kenex4ever:
They both tried, but u snapped fashola's projects from different angles thereby repeating
D pictures and also there are other akpabio works u didn't include, may b u should ask an akwa Ibom person to snap akpabio's projects and give u just d way u settled down to pick every single project fashola did. Akpabio has housing projects u didn't include plus the modern specialist hospital he just commissioned just to mention a few. If dat akpabio's stadium where to be in lagos u would have produced 20pictures out of it. Since u r snapping 5pictures of just a building among fashola's projects.

They both tried, but u snapped fashola's projects from different angles thereby repeating
D pictures and also there are other akpabio works u didn't include, may b u should ask an akwa Ibom person to snap akpabio's projects and give u just d way u settled down to pick every single project fashola did. Akpabio has housing projects u didn't include plus the modern specialist hospital he just commissioned just to mention a few. If dat akpabio's stadium where to be in lagos u would have produced 20pictures out of it. Since u r snapping 5pictures of just a building among fashola's projects.

aresa:
This thread is about completed and commissioned projects and if you think I left anything out, please post it here with proof.

aresa:
1. You are just like many folks here, you just talk and talk,but can not back up your talk with facts. I gave you people the opportunity to contribute whatever I left out about Akpabio but you did not, all you keep doing is coming up with what you can not proof.

2. How hard is it to post something or anything Akpabio completed and commissioned that I left out?

3. Nearly 99% Fashola project I posted in this thread are on Lagos Mainland.

4. If the Lagos state government did not fund the houses, then who did? Father Christmas ?

ekiloui:
1. I saw this thread when it was already in page 11, posting achievements would be futile as no one will see it, and besides what time do I have to research and post? By then it'll be stale. Btw does it really make sense for you as a poster to compare without researching well? You're simply biased.

2. You shouldn't ask people "to post things about him that you overlooked" you opened a thread that was meant to compare, so I expect you carried out a thorough investigation on both parties.

3. So what if they're on Lagos Mainland? Does that make Surulere or Yaba look any better or should I mention Mushin, Isolo etc? Even though I don't live in lag, I lived there once and even visited last year so I know what the mainland looks like! Even Ajah on the island has dirty gutters.

4. Since you opened a thread of this nature I expected you to be intelligent. Estates may or may not be funded by the Government! Most estates are planned and built by estate managers and funding can come from anywhere in form of loans and grants. That the Governor commissioned the estate doesn't neccessarily mean it was funded by the Government, it could have been a financial institution I.e A commercial bank, Mortgage bank, even individuals sponsor estate building.

I'll suggest you carry out better research next time before opening a thread such as this, when I started reading the thread I tought it was opened for healthy comparism, but now it's clear as daylight that u simply opened it to prove that Fashola has a better record than Akpabio.