The Governor Magazine

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have any reason to complain about his performance.
I believe he discharged himself creditably well.
20 years of Lagos state has been years of progress
and tremendous development, there's no doubt
about it, if you grew up in Lagos or you were born in
Lagos, you would see the difference, there has been
giant strides. This has happened basically because
there has been continuity in the governance, the
foundation has been laid by Asiwaju Bola Ahmed
Tinubu, he actually had a blueprint for the
development of Lagos, which was the “Ehingbeti”
program, which was held every year between 1999
and I think about 2009 or 2010 before it was
stopped, so this really formed the bedrock of the
developmental effort by Lagos state. What has
changed between then and now is the tremendous
influx of people into Lagos, the population has
grown tremendously in fact geometrically beyond
anybody's imagination, so the state has been so
burdensome under a weight of demands by her
populace that it could not meet, revenue growth has
not been able to match up with developmental
needs of the state so this has created a lot of
problems. The second issue is the leap frogging
technology, the state has not been able to keep up
with the technological advancement of the world
and one of the reasons behind it is also because of
the large influx of people coming into Lagos. It is
extremely very difficult to cope with the challenges
of environment, housing, and transportation,
congestion, providing education and healthcare for
the populace. These are the problems that incoming
governor, Gov. Sanwo-Olu would meet.
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