If Yahaya Bello is the governor of Lagos State

The achievement of each successive government in Lagos State has been a point of reference for other states in Nigeria since the advent of the democratic era in 1999.

When Bola Ahmed Tinubu took over the leadership of the state governor, his achievements were deemed superb and incomparable, while citizens of other states of Nigeria used his gigantic achievements to evaluate their respective state governors. Bola Ahmed Tinubu was very well referenced for his good road network, piped water supply, health care, education and many others.

It is instructive to note that the other respective state governors who could not give their people commendable achievements, such as what could be achieved in Lagos State, were ridiculous and ridiculous in the mainstream media and social media. The recognition and respect accorded to the state of Lagos continues even when Raji Fashola became governor of the state of Lagos.

In the eyes of the people, Fashola was seen as an excellent performance and such a recommendation was extended to the outgoing governor of the state in person at Ambode. It is instructive to note that the impression the population had on Fashola is what prompted President Buhari to consider his appointment to a ministerial post.

President Buhari perceived Governor Fashola as a super man and it is on this premise that he appointed him as minister. He did not stop at this, after confirmation, he brought together three of the largest departments to travel abroad as their minister. Was he able to manage the three ministries that he headed? This is another subject for another day.

To further strengthen public opinion, residents of Kogi State in Lagos recently used the exploits of Ambode Governor Ambode to measure the performance of his counterpart, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, of the state. from Kogi.

Detractors of the Alhaji Yahaya Bello administration in Kogi State have seriously stated that its performance was catastrophic and that there was nothing to tell when we juxtapose it to what is being prepared in the state of Kogi. Lagos. Governor Bello came to harbad these critics who, by their badessment, question his intellectual and that of his members on the formulation of policy and infrastructure development in the state of Kogi.

This prompted me to publish this article titled "If Yahaya Bello is the Governor of Lagos State", which led me to criticize Governor Bello.

I must begin by saying that those who develop the habit of using the achievements of the Lagos State Administration as a standard for what we should see in Kogi State are all wrong. In addition, I also wish to rebut the claims of some quarters that all former governors of Lagos State are brilliant and extraordinary people who rely on their past performance in the state.

The former governors of Lagos state made names for institutional reasons and nothing else. It must be understood that the state of Lagos, the former territory of the federal capital of Nigeria, can not compete with any Nigerian state and even the oil-rich state, such as Bayelsa, Delta and River State, can not compete with it under all Angles. We should also know that the state of Lagos is already established and even if an illiterate who knows it well and has no positive impact anywhere is elected to the state of Lagos, his performance will also be considered. as excellent and its realization, point of reference for other achievements. State in Nigeria that has an accountant listed on the map as governor.

So let me make it clear to my readers that Lagos State did not train and train very ordinary people as leaders of what we saw and observed in Kogi State. To understand this, I would like to compare the former governors of Lagos State with their counterparts in Kogi State.

Former governor of Lagos State, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is from the private sector, like Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, of Kogi State. Tinubu's certificate of education was debatable in some quarters, as did his counterpart Ibrahim Idris of Kogi State, whom many of us doubt about his claimed education certificates. The diploma of Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not a great diploma when we juxtapose it to Ibrahim Idris.

Before Raji Fashola reigned as governor of the state, he was a legal representative and senior counsel of Nigeria who had had an impact in the legal and political atmosphere. Moreover, before Idris Wada became Governor of Kogi State, he was an international airline captain of high reputation and had a considerable impact on the aviation industry.

For Ambode, he was a retired permanent secretary and enjoyed a good reputation in the political arena of the state. Likewise, Alhaji Yahaya Bello was a retired civil servant like him who had left an indelible mark on the transport sector. Alhaji Yahaya Bello was not abandoned in her private business as her transport company was well known to all travelers to Nigeria.

When we critically examine the caliber of the people who had governed Lagos State according to their degrees and social status before coming to power, I was confirmed that they were not extraordinary people with disabilities. unmatched references from their counterparts in Kogi State. some people have claimed.

These people have created names and achievements that are important to remember because of their location and institutional factor. If these people ran Kogi State while our current and past governors were administered as governors of Lagos State, we would have used them to compare the achievements of their counterparts to those of our state.

In short, if the current governor of Lagos State is Alhaji Yahaya Bello, we would have used his achievements in this paper as a point of reference for his counterpart in Kogi State. The achievements of Alhaji Yahaya Bello would have been a topic of discussion on traditional and social media. We would not have hesitated to recommend it to President Buhari as an excellent performance and a ministerial position as well as information filtering the airspace on the likely choice of Ambode for a ministerial position given his good achievements in the state of Lagos.

Shaibu Stephen Ojate is a reporter and public commentator for the public writing in Abuja. It is on WhatsApp and is reachable via the phone number 09075716236