[TRIBUTE BY HABIB ARUNA] Ambode: A visionary and audacious leader at 60 | TheCable
an elaborate feast, spread a red carpet to bring friends and well-wishers together or even pop champagne. Doing so is absolutely not in his character. If there would be a get-together at all, it would be with the deprived, the vulnerable, children of the poor, or the special class of the handicapped as he has done most times in his enviable life.
Ambode has pitched his tent with this history-making camp. It comes with a price: courage. According to Andrew Jackson, the 7th president of the United States of America: “One man with courage makes a majority”. This US leader is credited with numerous courageous policies that toppled the established norms of his time. He was not afraid to take a decision as long as it was in the interest of the people.
Another major achievement of a man who has remained very popular in the streets of Lagos was his boundless vision to move the state from a pedestrian plane to the sophistication of a 21st megacity through the erection of structures of gothic and exotic expressions.
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