The Chief Executive Officer of the the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) and a long-time ally of President Bola Tinubu, Tunji Bello, says Nigerians should stop expecting President Tinubu to perform in Nigeria the way he did when he served as the governor of Lagos state.
Bello, who served during Tinubu’s second term as Lagos governor between 2003 and 2007, cited ‘gargantuan problems’ at the centre as reason the President has not replicated his ‘excellent performance’ in Lagos at the federal level yet.
While speaking on Channels TV on Friday, Bello said;
“What I know is that he (Tinubu) is somebody who fights for the interest of Nigerians at any point in time, just like he did when he was in Lagos. Considering what he contributed to the development of Lagos, the expectation is that he will do the same thing in Nigeria. But Nigeria is a different thing entirely. So, we should not expect that what he did in Lagos, he should come and do the same thing.
There is Federal Character in Nigeria, when you get to the Centre. There is nothing like Federal Character in Lagos. That itself is one of the things he has to surmount. He has to consider the interest of different areas. He cannot just say that what works here (Lagos) must work there (at the centre). That should be properly studied. And then, he came in and met gargantuan problems; problems of infrastructure, petrol, insecurity, labour issues here and there, and different things. If you ask me, I will say he has done very well (but) we need to look at some areas and see how that we can recalibrate.”
