Former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was described as the most successful governor among the group of men and women who served as governors from 1999 to 2007 by Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, a two-term governor of Enugu State and senator who represents Enugu East in the upper legislative chamber.
On Friday, Nnamani made the announcement while interacting with newsmen in Abuja.
The PDP Senator acknowledged that the initial group of governors in charge following the restoration of democracy in 1999 were unable to fulfill their pledges because “most of us inherited a state that had all of its sectors in terrible condition as a result of several years of military rule. Our electorate’s emotions were filled only with absolute delight because they had a democratically elected governor.”
He did, however, pick out Tinubu, noting that the APC presidential contender was still one of the country’s top system architects and political reformers despite the massive financial constraints.
“Lagos state and many other states were in turmoil as a result of years of military rule in terms of health, education, the economy, and security, but Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu made the most progress out of all of us in terms of reforms of various sectors, with Enugu State coming in second,” he claimed.
This significant advancement resulted from the collaboration of 23 of Lagos State’s brightest minds, who examined each area of the city’s economy and offered practical solutions to its particular problems.
According to Nnamani, the education sector under Tinubu “found that out of the 7,877 classrooms that were available, 5,908 needed refurbishment,” and that “With 682,000 pupils, the 7,877 classrooms were insufficient due to the UNESCO requirement of 1:25 students per classroom.
“The Asiwaju-led administration was given the job of figuring out how to add 5,768 additional classrooms to the existing ones, and he rose to the challenges by building new elementary, junior intermediate, and senior secondary schools in Lagos between 1999 and 2007 to meet this issue.
In order to ensure that students received the best education possible, the Asiwaju-led administration launched a number of staff training and development initiatives in various courses, seminars, and workshops.
Between 1999 and 2007, “several principals were supported to travel to Cape Town, Nairobi, and Auckland,” the statement continued. “Over 100 instructors in all received training in Nigeria and other French-speaking African countries.
The ministry, SUBEB, TEPO, and six school districts will receive computer systems from this company.
The training of 1,400 teachers to teach the recently introduced family life health education by the national council on education was funded by Lagos State under Tinubu in order to keep up with the most recent global educational trends. It was emphasized that by doing this, Lagos State became the first to adopt and implement the FLHE program.
“The Tinubu administration also had an impact on the tertiary institution, as a backlog of more than 25,000 diploma, degree, and postgraduate certificates was cleared, and Lagos State University also implemented online course registration, fee processing, and result checking,” the statement continued.
Tinubu established the Lagos State University College of Medicine to offer top-notch medical education. Tinubu facilitated the accreditation in 2005, allowing the first group of medical students to graduate in 2006.
