Future Generations Will Be Proud If Tinubu Becomes President – Abiola Oshodi

Media Director for the All Progressives Congress Presidential Council for Canada Dr Abiola Oshodi has given reasons why Nigerians should vote for All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential candidate Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.

Oshodi urged Nigerians to keep themselves abreast of political undercurrents ahead of the 2023 general elections.

Oshodi, in a statement in Akure, said the country needs a competent and visionary person as a President to take it to a new level comes 2023.

He said Tinubu proved his support for restructuring when he became the first governor to create 37 more local councils in order to bring government closer to the people.

The Canada- based Psychiatrist pointed out Tinubu laid the foundation for modern Lagos which accounts for a chunk of capital importation into Nigeria.

Oshodi said Tinubu would give the country the leadership that would inspire it to greater glory with new thinking, innovative ideas and vision.

According to him: “Whosoever wins the presidential election in 2023 will be confronted with monumental challenges and opportunities within and outside the country that will test the mettle of such a president.

“Nigeria is at a delicate stage of its developmental process and needs a President with hand-on experience and Senator Tinubu who has governed Lagos, the most commercial of Nigeria’s 36 States deserves to be given an opportunity to pilot Nigeria’s affairs from May 29, 2023.

“Tinubu is a man with innovative thinking who touched every facet of Lagos as a governor from 1999- 2007. An attribute needed by Nigeria at this stage of its development for the desired transformation.

“He created the Ministry of Environment to tackle the issue of flooding head-on, introduced the one-day governor programme that brought young boys and girls into the limelight and reformed the health sector accompanied with the distribution of free eyeglasses.

“He brought the Lekki corridor into the limelight. The Lekki corridor that had become a beehive of economic activities with the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals; the Dangote Fertiliser, a 2.5 billion dollar investment and the Lekki Sea Port are among the companies located today in the Lekki Free Zone.”

In Q2 2022 of all the capital importation to Nigeria, Lagos alone accounted for 66.66 percent, and was followed by Abuja, the Federal Capital with 29.57, leaving the rest 35 states to share a paltry 3.77 percent.

Oshodi described Tinubu as a man with innovative thinking who touched every facet of Lagos as a governor from 1999- 20 04, an attribute needed by Nigeria at this stage of its development for the desired transformation.

“He created the Ministry of Environment to tackle the issue of flooding head on, introduced the one-day governor programme that brought young boys and girls into the limelight and reformed the health sector accompanied with the distribution of free eye glasses.

“He created a Housing Ministry   to redress the acute shortage of housing in Lagos, with a mandate to construct affordable houses and introduced the Independent Power Project, and the Bus Rapid Transportation – BRT, with Lagos State Transport Management Authority. LASTMA to develop a culture of regulation, control management of traffic operations and to ensure hitch free traffic on Lagos roads.

“Tinubu also created 37 more local councils in order to bring government more to the people and brought the Lekki corridor into limelight, the Lekki corridor that that had become a beehive of economic activities with the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, the 650,000 barrels per day integrated refinery, the largest single train refinery in the world;/ the Dangote Fertiliser, a  2.5 billion dollar  investment and the Lekki  Sea Port Nigeria’s  largest multipurpose Port in Nigeria among the  and the companies located  today in the Lekki Free Zone.

Oshodi added that ” If Senator Tinubu was voted as the next president,  he would replicate all these achievements and even accomplish more at the national level and give the country the leadership that would inspire it to greater glory with new thinking, innovative ideas and vision.