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Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, says he is on his way to becoming the state’s version of Lee Kuan Yew, the prime minister credited to have changed the face of Singapore.

Speaking through Idowu Ajanaku, his senior special assistant on media and strategy, Ambode his administration is barely a year and half in office and has recorded tremendous progress, and has just started unravelling what it has in stock for Lagosians.

Ajanaku said this while receiving a delegation of young professionals across the state in his office at Alausa, Lagos.

According to Ajanaku, ‘there are over eight thousand of both federal and state roads scattered across Lagos, with most of the road networks linking the rural areas with the urban areas in deplorable conditions, fixing these roads is a major part of the people’s demand from the governor during the electioneering campaign.

Against the backdrop, governor Ambode’s response has been immediate and impressive, as he embarked on the construction of two roads each, in the local government areas and the local council development areas, which has led to the completion of about one hundred and fourteen roads. This has contributed in no small measure to the socio-economic development of the state’.

He also said that ‘the decision of the government to embark on the demolition of shanties and criminal hide-outs in recent times is in line with the vision of the government to developing Lagos to a mega city status.

Ambode’s vision and burden is in the mould of Lee Kuan Yew, the Father of modern Singapore who set out with an infrastructural revolution in Singapore. This move was met with a lot of resistance but with determination and doggedness today Singapore is a modern day wonder.

The Lagos of Ambode’s dream is a mega city of note and investment friendly destination of choice in sub Saharan Africa and he is determined to get there’.

In is response, Wale Adelakun, an ex-president of the Student Union Governing Council at the Federal University of Technology, Akure, appreciated Ambode for keeping his campaign promises by opening up rural areas in Lagos and for changing the look of governance from elitist to such that has the common man at heart.

Adelakun said, “if the governor continues with the present tempo, very soon, Lagos will become a very good place to live in”.