'BOS should be especially careful. At this stage of own tenure, Ambode was near-cruising, having fobbed off his initial challenges. But that didn’t stop his miserable crumble, no thanks to avoidable hubris.'
COVID-19 makes. COVID-19 breaks. That could be a tad sweeping. But it might also be the tale of two governors, truly told.
Then, one year after, COVID-19 offered the craven apologia: the virus and its ruthless disruptions, had accounted for Makinde’s rather slim report card. Whereas COVID-19 has, well, crippled GSM, it has given BOS rare wings to soar; not by jingling propaganda, but by trackable deeds. COVID-19 makes, COVID-19 breaks!
To be fair though, that could just be glib counter-jive by party powers and principalities, who wrestled Ambode to a vicious pin-fall. But then, came COVID-19, and BOS came onto his own — dramatically for the better, unlike GSM’s, whose story changed for the worse. Prof. Akinlola Abayomi, the Lagos Health commissioner and “field commander” of the fierce Lagos anti-Coronavirus campaign, says that might be because Lagos had done more tests than any other state, including the FCT, and its federal might.
The real good news, however, is systemic: Lagos has, from 1999, continued to hone its civil service and political bureaucracies, for quality service delivery, in good and bad seasons. That is welcome — and should be vigorously pursued. Too many Okada and Keke Marwa rascals still ply major highways, even belting against the traffic.
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