National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, has revealed that he was once criticised for being too slow in governance while serving as Lagos state governor.
According to Tinubu, a planning period is necessary, while trying to revive a state or country, after it’s been badly managed.
Tinubu made the comments on Thursday, while Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State launched the Mile 12-Ikorodu Road expansion and Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, operation with 434 buses for the pilot scheme.
He said: “We will continue to develop this country to compete with the superpowers. When we started the urban renewal, they thought that we were lost and had no vision. But they do not know about the planning period that is required to modernize any decay in government.
“Today, it is applicable to President Muhammadu Buhari. The planning period that it is taking to re-engineer and re-design the governance of Nigeria was the same method they were blaming us for then.
“They called me ‘go slow’ and at that time, I was complaining about the paucity of funds.
“Oil was selling at about $11 per barrel and I said that we will be out of it soon and people said that I should go and do my plan and stop the lamentation.
“But my cabinet, including Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State and the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, were part of that dream and the vision for the mission to reclaim and redevelop Lagos State.”
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