Tunde Bank-Anthony, a chieftain of the All Progressives
Congress (APC) and member of Concerned Lagosians, says Bola Tinubu, the
presidential candidate of the party, did not transform Lagos as he is claiming.
On September 4, the media office of Tinubu released a
documentary unveiling and detailing his achievements when he was the governor
of Lagos from 1999 to 2003.
In the 30-minute-long documentary, Tinubu described himself
as an “architect, a builder, and a developer bunched into one”.
But reacting to the content of the documentary, Bank-Anthony
said Tinubu is misrepresenting the truth, adding that Lagos was already
established before he came to power.
He said though he is a member of the ruling party and not
trying to discredit the presidential candidate, Tinubu should desist from using
Lagos as the only factor in his campaign.
“Everything our candidate is campaigning about is Lagos as
if in the last 100 years, Lagos has seen nothing like him. But we as Lagosians,
we need to set the record straight,” he said.
“I’m almost 60 years old and I live on the Island, I don’t
know a road on the Island that wasn’t tarred. The politics they are playing now
give us a lot of concern.
“The politics that
Lagos was developed by Tinubu, that is unacceptable. Let us be clear here, it
is our own heritage, and our pedigree comes from there, so, let nobody ride on
our back about who developed Lagos.
“We are on the same page with the candidate but if he starts
bringing lies, misrepresentation. We are not discrediting the candidate of the
campaign, what we are trying to do is to put the record straight out there.
“He was governor from 1999 to 2007. Fashola was tenure was
from 2007 to 2015, Ambode from 2015 to 2019, let’s not confuse our children for
the sake of history.
On his part, Wole Badmus, executive director of the
South-west Grand Alliance for Tinubu/Shettima 2023, said Lagos was already
slipping into collapse before Tinubu’s administration rescued the state.
He said before 1999, the infrastructural decay in the state
was unprecedented, adding that Tinubu transformed the situation for the benefit
of all Lagosians.
“Tinubu became governor at the brink of collapse, at a time
when the infrastructure decay in Lagos was unprecedented,” he said.
“To show that Lagos was already chaotic, the federal
government moved the capital away from Lagos. This was to show that Lagos was
already congested.
“We are not saying that Tinubu brought Lagos, we are saying
he transformed Lagos, and people must face reality.”
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