Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Tuesday described the former Governor of the State and National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a great Nigerian political product and a successful leader who not only mentored many leaders in the country but laid the solid foundation for the sustained progress of the State.<\/p>\n
Speaking at 9th Colloquium held at Eko Hotels & Suits in Lagos to mark Tinubu\u2019s 65th birthday, Governor Ambode said the test of any successful leader all over the world was in the number of leaders such leaders created, and that using the said globally accepted parameter, Tinubu without doubt, is a winner.<\/p>\n
Ambode likened Tinubu to a coconut blessed with divine task to be fruitful and useful to humanity, versatile, courageous, which could bear fruit for a long time.<\/p>\n
“Like the coconut, some by-products\/fruits will get bad along the way or after being sold in the market; in actual fact, the political product may not be the favourite of some other people.<\/p>\n “The bottom line, however, is simple.\u00a0 If Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, were a coconut; I dare say, with all simplicity, I would be among the forefront liners that will eat, drink and sleep B.A.T. 24\/7,” Ambode said.<\/p>\n While alluding to Tinubu\u2019s contribution to the growth of the State, Governor Ambode said: \u201cThere is no doubt the Asiwaju political dynasty is a made in Nigeria product.\u00a0 The foundation laid and blueprints developed during his tenure as Governor of Lagos State which cuts across all sections of the State\u2019s economy have actually simplified the process of governance till date.<\/p>\n \u201cHis blueprint has continued to serve as a road map to achieving the Lagos of his and our dreams.\u00a0 This same political product without doubt, traverses the Nigerian landscape and that is evident with the emergence of the APC at the centre in 2015. Asiwaju is a made in Nigeria product. We should make more products out of him,\u201d the Governor said.<\/p>\n Besides, Governor Ambode described the theme of the Colloquium which is: \u201cMake It In Nigeria: Use What We Make; Make What We Use,\u201d as apt, adding that the partnership between Lagos and Kebbi States which culminated in the production of Lake Rice was an eloquent testimony of the ability of Nigeria to be a producing nation.<\/p>\n He, however, assured that his administration would continue to improve on indices of the ease of doing business to ensure that more products are made in Nigeria for the development and growth of our nation.<\/p>\n On his part, President Muhammadu Buhari described Tinubu as an outstanding politician, great mobilizer, effective in conceiving and planning governmental policies.<\/p>\n “Chief Bola Tinubu is an outstanding Yoruba politician of his generation,” he said.<\/p>\n Speaking on the economy, Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau said that the Federal Government was already putting policies in place to encourage and facilitate Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to promote made in Nigeria goods, adding that same was part of his administration’s overall national economic policy.<\/p>\n In her remarks, Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun assured Nigerians that the country would soon be out of the economic recession, revealing that the Federal Government was already copying the Lagos template to revive the economy.<\/p>\n![\"Wife](\"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/PIX-9606.jpg\")
<\/a><\/a>