For 16 years between 1999 and 2015, Nigeria not only stagnated but even retrogressed badly on virtually all fronts – infrastructure, security, social welfare, poverty indices etc under the PDP. That fortunately has not been the fate of Lagos.
They may as well be aptly christened the “O to ge” elections. I refer to the February 23rd and March 9th, 2019, national and state executive as well as legislative polls, which are being concluded today with supplementary elections in five states. Of course, O to ge has now become part and parcel of the ever fascinating and evolving grammar of Nigerian politics.
A most colourful, assured and masterly majority leader of the Senate on the platform of the National Party of Nigeria in the Second Republic, the Saraki patriarch bestrode the politics of Kwara like a colossus. He had a hand in the emergence, and sometimes untidy exit from office, of practically every elected governor in Kwara for over three and a half decades. These include Prince Adamu Attah, Chief Cornelius Adebayo, Mr. Mohammed Shaaba Lafiagi, and Col. Mohammed Lawal .
On Thursday, February 28th, 2019, a group, the Free Lagos Orange Movement surfaced in Lagos ostensibly to replicate the Kwara O to ge revolution in the Centre of Excellence. Claiming that the group had no permit to organize a protest rally, the police prevented the Free Lagos Orange Movement from staging its demonstration at the Lagos Airport Hotel. However, one of the conveners of the group, a former President of the Nigeria Bar Association , Mr.
It is thus instructive that the APC in Lagos won the March 9, 2019, governorship election by a more emphatic margin than it did in 2015 – a landslide. It was a grievous error of judgement for the Free Lagos Orange Movement to have extrapolated so carelessly from the politics of Kwara to Lagos without a more rigorous analysis.
Equally instructive is the fact that not even the obstacles placed on the path of Lagos by a largely adversarial PDP-controlled centre between 1999 and 2015 have been able to impede the state’s progress.
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