{"id":411,"date":"2018-10-02T15:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T15:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vor.org.ng\/?p=411"},"modified":"2022-08-14T00:11:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T00:11:03","slug":"development-blueprint-vs-state-capture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ictnetworldltd.com\/newvor\/2018\/10\/02\/development-blueprint-vs-state-capture\/","title":{"rendered":"Development Blueprint vs. State Capture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_414\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-414\" src=\"http:\/\/vor.org.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/femi-mimiko.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-414\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Femi Mimiko. mni<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Whence is this Blueprint being thrown up by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a la Chairman Mao&#8217;s Red Book, as the basis of extant imbroglio in the ruling party in Lagos? Who designed it? Who approved it? When is it due for review? By the way, how many of those talking about it as if it were the holy book, have seen it?<br \/>\nForget the Blueprint facade. The unfolding Gov. Ambode reelection issue revolves around STATE CAPTURE &#8211; a few powerful mandarins had seized control of Lagos for upward of 20 years. They have deployed every imaginable tool, legitimate or otherwise, to hold Nigeria&#8217;s most viable State down. It is convenient now to talk of Tunde Fashola, as if they never made an attempt to abort what the gentleman was doing.<br \/>\nOf course, Lagos has been the worse for it. Democracy is lying prostate. An overwhelming majority of Lagosians remain extremely poor, and live in subhuman conditions, even in the face of humongous resources, much of which, by subterfuge, suspiciously ends up in private pockets! Small wonder those who never set up any factory anywhere prior their involvement in Lagos politics would boast obscenely, &#8216;Osun does not have my kind of money!&#8217;<br \/>\nAkinwumi Ambode doesn&#8217;t come across as perfect or an angel, but we shouldn&#8217;t confuse the narrative. What he has done &#8216;wrong&#8217; is to have chosen to stand up to the formidable, pretentiously progressive political party machine in Lagos. For those who own, run, and put same to use, it does not matter whether a Fashola, or an Ambode is performing or not. Ambode has to be stopped and taken out, for daring the lion. Simplicita! Now, how does it constitute progress &#8211; when the particularistic interest of a few party apparatchiks<br \/>\nsupersedes that of the masses of the people?<br \/>\nAmbode may not get anywhere with his current effort, especially given what I think is a bad outing at his so-called World Press Conference. It came across as poorly coordinated, choreographed, and too pedestrian, for a governor on the type of mission he has taken upon himself (they couldn&#8217;t even get enough microphones!).<br \/>\nEven so, it is good enough that someone is willing to challenge, and shake off the crushing weight of this cathedral of fraud in place in Lagos for so long. No formation lasts forever anyway. After all, somebody in the past did everything to undermine an Afenifere that he once acknowledged made his emergence in the political firmament possible in the first instance. What goes round comes around, they say.<br \/>\nThe truth is that there is no self-respecting individual that would remain under such a yoke that they are won&#8217;t to place on a &#8216;governor&#8217; in that place forever. As it was with Fashola, so it is with Ambode, even when they may seem to have handled the challenge differently. That is the sense in Fashola&#8217;s &#8216;may our loyalty not be tested&#8217; thesis.<br \/>\nAgain, as I noted earlier, let the contradictions play out rapidly, and irretrievably. That is the route to Shaka Momodu\u2019s seminal inquiry, &#8216;When will Lagos State be free of one man\u2019s messianic mentality? Who will liberate the state from Bola Tinubu\u2019s suffocating grip?&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8211; femi mimiko, mni<br \/>\nOct. 1, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whence is this Blueprint being thrown up by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a la Chairman Mao&#8217;s Red Book, as the basis of extant&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737,739],"tags":[37,38,39],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-trending-on-whatsapp","tag-greed","tag-politics","tag-power"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Development Blueprint vs. State Capture - Voice of Reason<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ictnetworldltd.com\/newvor\/2018\/10\/02\/development-blueprint-vs-state-capture\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Development Blueprint vs. State Capture - 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