Lagos Country Club Hosts Akinwunmi Ambode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAs he gave responses to the questions and concerns raised, he discussed his plans to further improve infrastructure (that will for example, ensure construction of major and inner roads together with affordable Housing schemes), upgrade the transport systems, create financial empowerment programmes that have human faces for the artisans, standardize taxes, productively engage youths, amongst other similarly novel plans.<\/p>\n
According to him, a project 20\/20\/57 will see 20 roads and 20 street lights constructed in each of the 57 Local governments every year; an Employment Trust Fund will empower a bulk of youths and make talented graduates become employers of labour; a project T.H.E.S.E, that is, Tourism, Hospitality, Entertainment and Sports for Excellence, will create jobs and open Lagos for more businesses.<\/p>\n
All of these and more he said will be fast-tracked by giving governance back to the communities and local governments, noting that such decision is informed by his experience working in that tier of government for 13 years.<\/p>\n
“I will work in our neighborhoods more than from inside Alausa when elected. This is how I will ensure that the fruits of governance get to the people they are actually meant for. We will empower our local governments in such a way that they get directly accountable to the people”, he said.<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he said his wealth of public service experience will be employed to create capacity building programmes for the state’s civil servants, while also assuring a prioritization of their welfare.<\/p>\n
The Lagos Country Club is one of the oldest and most prestigious social clubs in Lagos, and from the moment his citation was read by ace thespian, Victor Olaotan, throughout the interaction, Ambode had visibly won the hearts of the members, as they seemed humbled by his plethora of academic and public service achievements, and also got impressed by his leadership qualities and gubernatorial prospects.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial candidate in Lagos, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode was today hosted to an interactive session by the Lagos Country Club, where he stated categorically that he will work selflessly to make Lagos a pride of the country in the next four years. He was joined at the session by his running […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62],"tags":[122,207,265,962,978],"class_list":["post-2426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-manifesto","tag-122","tag-akinwunmi-ambode","tag-apc","tag-lagos","tag-lagos-country-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akinwunmiambode.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}