Why Majority of Nigerians Are Ignorant of the Achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari and RT. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, the Federal Minister of Transportation.

Why Majority of Nigerians Are Ignorant of the Achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari 

President Muhammadu Buhari is performing well in his administration. But many Nigerians don't know a lot of his achievements, because of either lack of good public relations or poor public relations of his Ministers and DGs. 

RT. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is the Honourable Minister of Transportation, but he seems to prefer to be the DG of Nigerian Railways. Railway transportation is just one of the sectors of the Ministry of Transportation. Can he tell us what his ministry is doing in air transportation, road transportation and water transportation? 

Majority of Nigerians are ignorant of the achievements of the Federal Ministries, because of poor public relations. 

President Buhari is blamed for the failures of even local governments! Because of the failures of the state governors who cannot even clean up their streets. They are often showing the commissioning of both completed and uncompleted constructions of roads and flyovers in their states in the midst of dilapidated streets with heaps of stinking refuses and surrounded by  poverty-stricken destitute children and women begging for alms by the roadside.

Construction of roads and flyovers are not the fundamental needs and priorities of majority of Nigerians. Projects to tackle poverty and unemployment should be the priorities of state governments. 

The administration of President Buhari has created more new jobs for Nigerians than the previous administrations of the Nigerian government. But ignorant Nigerians still blame him for the failures of their incompetent state governors and incompetent local government administrators.  

One Igbo man even blamed President Buhari for his own impotence when his wife insulted him for failing to give her orgasm!

 - By EKENYERENGOZI Michael Chima, The CEO, International Digital Post Network Limited, Publisher/Editor, NOLLYWOOD MIRROR®Series 247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) / Twitter https://mobile.twitter.com/247nigeria https://www.amazon.com/author/ekenyerengozimichaelchima, https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelchimaeyerengozi 

Alhaji Lateef Jakande: The Best Governor of Lagos State Since 1967 To Date

 

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande (23 July 1929 – 11 February 2021) achieved in four years as the Governor of Lagos State what other governors in Nigeria failed to achieve in eight years.

Alhaji Jakande was an outstanding trailblazer in the the making of modern Lagos and the unique landmarks of his indisputable achievements made him the best Governor of Lagos since the establishment of Lagos State by the Federal Government of Nigeria on May 27, 1967 by the Creation and Transitional Provisions Decree No. 14 of 1967.

 

See The Three Founding Fathers of Modern Lagos https://nigeriansreportng.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-three-founding-fathers-of-modern.html.

Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande was the  Governor of Lagos State from October 1979 – December 1983, during the Second Republic of the Federal Government of Nigeria.

He was a socialist state governor following the footsteps of his political godfather, the great Obafemi Awolowo, Patriarch of modern Yoruba nation. Jakande focused on free education from primary to secondary school levels and affordable housing for low income workers.

He introduced housing and educational programs targeting the poor, building new neighbourhood primary and secondary schools and providing free primary and secondary education. He established the Lagos State University. Jakande's government constructed over 30,000 housing units. The schools and housing units were built cheaply, but were of great value.

Some of the housing units include low cost estates in Amuwo-Odofin, Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry.

To fund some of the projects, Jakande increased the tenement rates and price of plots of land in affluent areas of Victoria Island and Lekki Peninsula and the processing fees for lottery, pools and gaming licenses. He also completed the construction of the General Hospital in Gbagada and Ikorodu and built about 20 health centres within the state. As a governor, he established 23 local government councils which were later disbanded by the military. He also started a metroline project to facilitate mass transit.

- By Ekenyerengozi Michael Chima, producer and director of "Lagos in Motion" documentary film.