 All right, thanks for staying with us. Now, the 2023 Lagos State Govermentorial Election will take place on the 11th of March 2023 to elect the governor of Lagos State, concurrent with elections to the Lagos State House of Assembly, as well as 27 other Govermentorial elections and elections to all other state assemblies. Now, the election will be held rather this Saturday, two weeks after the presidential election and the National Assembly elections. Now, the incumbent APC governor, Babaji Desong Walu, is eligible to run for re-elections and has been nominated or renominated by his party to be what's it called, the candidate. So who is your candidate for the Lagos State Govermentorial Race? And do you think your candidate has a chance? Now, please, let's hear what you have to say. Remember, you can join the conversation, send us an SMS or WhatsApp to do it. 1-803-4663. So the reason I'm smiling is because these are really interesting times that we're in. So for the first time, in a very long time, I'm really feeling like, okay, there's a breath of fresh air with the elections, especially the 2023 general election from precedency. You could see freshness to the kinds of, what's it called, engagements and all of that. And this particular election is one that is very dear to my heart because Lagos State, really, Lagos State has the capacity to be the Dubai of the world. It has the capacity, it has by every standard because Lagos is one of the most industrious state. It gathers a lot of industrious people. I mean, people just feel like, you know, when I come to Lagos, I'll make it because I mean, when you put in the hard work, you see the results and all of that. And again, in Lagos, you can become a billionaire and you understand the tricks and the, you know, I mean, I remember when my friend was living on the mainland, both of us were living on the mainland, right? And she used to say then that, ah, I'm going to move to the island, I'm going to move to the island. I said, why? She said, ah, the same thing that her and her friend will go to the UK and buy and she will be selling me peanuts and we beg on the mainland that that then the friend will just call a tea party lucky. And before you say that, she says it's like five or 10 times the money and they ask crampley for it. And she sold out. She has to now bring her goods, you know, I mean, even within Lagos, right? There's, there's, you know, there's still different kinds of, what's called activities going on that just shows that yes, this is a boisterous economy. So I mean, when, when the presidential elections happened and all of a sudden everybody was just, ah, and, you know, Labour Party was declared winner. All of a sudden I just noticed that our governors are there posting different things. They are legussians. They are legussians. They are legussians. But you see, it's good. It's good because I know particularly governors only, for instance, had been invited to different debates and all of that. I don't think he did any. He never showed up in any of the debates and all of that because, again, I feel like politicians in Nigeria, and this is not just unique to Govna Songulu. It's actually every governor. When they are running for a second term, they don't believe that they have to put in so much work. They just believe that the power of incumbency will cover them up. But for the first time, maybe because of the things that happened with the presidential election, Labour Party winning Lagos state. And again, Labour Party now having some kind of, you know, architect, the new architect of Lagos and all of that, you know, coming into the race. So it's almost like because I know that Songulu has been going everywhere, speaking to different people. I mean, he was at the estate where I voted. He's been going around different places and all of that. So I don't know. What's your take first of all? The gubernatorial race. How is it doing you? You see, guys, I said I'm looking forward to Saturday. And it's not because I'm not afraid that, again, the magic will happen. But because I'm happy that somebody is giving them pressure. So the days of sitting down and crossing your legs and knowing that it's coming to me again is over. Like you rightly said, every day now I've seen dear Lagosians. Dear Lagosians. And I'm like, wow! I'm really proud that you're Lagosians. You have people want to say to us. I didn't know that. You know, so it's a very, it's, like I said, it's interesting to see. I called this phase that we're going to do Ninja Chronicles. So this is like episode what now that's where in of season, this is season three, maybe. But yeah, I'm just excited that somebody is putting him on. He's now putting out pictures with iron jeans and things like that. He's good so that you can't say that. These things, see, what we're done, we're done with all that. I love Songulu as a matter of fact. But you see, something happened that just puts me off. And I actually expected so much. He's my pet damage by the way. So I was like, this guy, you can't do better than this now. What's going on? And his silence sometimes just kills me. When you expect him to say something, he will just go quiet on you. I remember when he was going to come into power in, that was 20, 20, yeah, 2019 elections, all my days, the promises that we had. And this is four years later and I'm asking myself, what happened? What changed? What went wrong? So there's somebody told me, you know, there was COVID. I'm like, don't make those kind of excuses. COVID came, COVID, we stopped in what, nine months. There was that break for nine months and everything resumed. Why is it that when we're just going to get to election period, that's when we said, he said that whole real thing that Buhari came and commissioned the real, real that we've been known for. God knows how long now. And I don't, I don't see that happening again in another how many years. They started that other project, the road one we're talking about today, left digging. So it's, I don't know. Never hear your thought, Jennifer. The pressure is getting worse. And I'm actually very happy. Like, like Shinela said, you know, normally, when there's a, there's an election coming up, you have the past government who feel like, yes, it's going to follow my labs. I don't have to do too much. And then you have situations where probably they're opposing, um, running mids. It's probably someone who's very docile, someone we don't know about, someone who doesn't have any manifesto, has nothing to offer. They don't have any real competition. Yeah, they don't have, yeah. So this is a real competition. And I'm very happy. Like you said, there's always that dear legotians letter. It's like, every three market days it comes up. And every time I see, it feels like a text message. I mean, he says it on the are you feeling potter? That's nice. Now you are dressing up because for years he has been quiet about a lot of things. Now people are calling him out and asking, what have you done in the past four years? Now I feel like as a governor, once you're like a sitting governor, if you've done anything to improve on the economy of the state, people should know about it. Because right now I would have to ask people have to ask him, what have you done? If I can't see what you've done, then that's a problem. And then the things that he listed to me, I saw it and I was like, there was one building I saw in one primary school that looks like a lighthouse. First of all, I can't even see a staircase leading to that building. I can't see anything. The question is, why was that constructed? And why should that be something you are proud of to see you have done? We have a lot of issues to tackle in Lagos. We have housing issues. We have security issues. We have road. We have traffic. We have a lot of issues. And you don't have the roads that they commissioned, they started constructing. And till now there is nothing to write home about it. We've not seen any progress being made. People are complaining every day. People who live in Sungotedo are crying every day because they go through traffic. Imagine sitting in traffic for six hours every day. Now reduce your lifespan. I don't think anybody wants to die anytime soon. So please, just vote for the right person. Please increase the pressure. I'm happy you're bringing those things up. And again, I wish Jerry senses apologies. Actually, he's running late. Hopefully he'll be able to get here before the time runs out. But I was going to say that I'm happy you brought up those issues. And let's even narrow it to this Lagos state gubernatorial race. Why are we having issues around ethnicity? Because again, people play dirty when they see that this is a real competition. Over the years, I don't believe that there was ever a competition for APC in any of the previous elections. Why? I have a feeling like the PDP candidate is just there waiting to just come out and prompt like, I want to run. But he was never ready. He's really serious to run. And that's particularly one of the reasons I really did not like his person. Because it's almost like you stay quiet and every four years you just wake up. Nobody saw Labour Party coming into the picture. So all of a sudden now there's real competition. And that's why we're seeing all these things that we're seeing. Commissioning or projects, everything. So I was just talking to a friend of mine. I said, why do we people, why do you have to wait every four years? At the fourth year, when it's an election year, you start commissioning different kinds of projects, right? Like you rightly said, if governance is felt by people, you don't even need to campaign. People will be the ones to campaign for you. And this is a message to our leaders. We are getting wiser every day. We're getting better. You know, we're not there yet as a people because if we were there yet as a people, certain things will still not be happening. We're not there, but we're getting there. And we're getting to that point where if you do not do your job, you understand, you'll be kicked out of the seat. It's as simple as that. So it's not a thing of waiting till that minute and you're jumping, helter, skelter and trying to convince people to vote for you. If you did your job, trust me, you are not, you are unshaken. And that's the truth because this thing is not, and that's why people that are bringing up ethnicity, people that are bringing up religion and all of those things into the elections, you are actually just, you know, you're actually very ignorant. Because if you knew, if you knew how important governance is, right, you will not be part of the people pushing those propaganda. Trust me, a Tunisian or whatever can just come and become governor for all I care, as long as the job is being done. And I was listening to, what's it called, she was talking on a talk show on TV and she was saying that people have to be careful, especially the APC, because if you talk about candidacy and the terms of say, okay, who is the bona fide legosian? What's his name? Saumulu is not a legosian. What's his name? Amber Day was not a legosian allege, even Tunubu is not a legosian, right? So if you were talking about, what's it called, if you're talking about incumbency and, I'm sorry, indigenous roots and all of that, this particular combo, that's what I'm saying that is the most, that's what it's interesting to me, because this particular combo of princess, OFC and JRV, they are more legosians than any other combo because OFC is born, bred, bottled, everything legos. She's originally a legosian, JRV's legosian, and it also has his mom that is from the east. So when they don't bring all these Omoale issues and they bring issues around, you know, what's it called, him going to hand over governance to the ebos, for me, I think those are just very shallow way of campaigning. Now, let's even bring the subject of the ebos here. Who are the drivers of the economy? In every state in Nigeria, every state, I'm not even specific to legos. Who are the drivers of the economy? Go to every state in Nigeria, the major markets that are turning out, whatever. You see a lot of ebos traders there, right? Ebos are the most industrious people. I used to say that I wish, you know, I was an ebogirl because I'm sure by now I'd have been a billionaire importer exporter, you know, I'm just saying to you, they are very industrious. So when you start to bring those kind of lines, you reduce the, see, we must begin to learn to move away from those kinds of agendas and propaganda and learn how to see. You know what has brought me where I am today? I learned how to tap into people's strength, forget about their weaknesses, forget about their differences. I just focus on people's strength. And that's all I focus on. I'm not interested in whatever, that's your headache. Right? But if you focus on people's strength, you will get the best out of the people. And that's what we should do because you cannot really claim anything right now. We must learn to harness the potential that everybody has. Because the human capital, I was saying it somewhere, I don't know where I was saying it. The human capital that we have in this country is enough to make this country a first class, first class country. But because of all of these small petty lines that we divide ourselves in, we're not able to get there. And that is a big problem for me. I have a question for Nigerians as a whole. Now, if we're going with tribal worlds, I have just one question. Now, having an Igbo president, Igbo governor, or having a Yoruba president, or governor, or Ausa, and what not, or Muslim, or Christian, when we are suffering, we all suffer together. Because I don't think there is, when the dollar was increasing and Naira was dropping, prices of things were going up, housing prices were increasing. When you were looking for a house to rent, did the landlord or agent tell you, oh, because you are Yoruba, I'll reduce the price? Or when economy was getting really hard for a lot of people, did economy tell you, because you are Igbo, I'll reduce the price? So I really don't understand it because I think it is very backward for anyone to still be fighting these wars. It doesn't make any sense to me. When we are divided, we will not make any progress. But when we come together as one, there is supposed to be an end goal. It shouldn't be about where you're from. I mean, we complain about racism. We complain that, oh, when Nigerians or black people go abroad or go to a white man's land or country, we are being treated differently. So if you're going to complain about racism, why do you come back to Nigeria? And you're now tribalist. Why? It doesn't make any sense to me. We're supposed to love each other. And I know that it is progress. I mean, we need to get to that point. But this is the same fight we've been fighting for years before I was born, before a lot of people were born. So why are you carrying a war that is not even yours? Why can't we just come together and vote for the good of the people? So let's bring it back home. Because it's important that we're saying all of these things. Because again, these were the things that just started springing up all of a sudden. Because now, like I said, for the first time, it seemed like we have real competitors in Lagos. Real competitors. Because before, as far as I was concerned, that guy, Jimmy Aguaje, as far as I am concerned, Jimmy Aguaje was just a front. Because the guy was not ready. He was not ready to be govno. Advertisers are very sweet. Which guy are you? Govno. Govno is very sweet. I'm super excited. And I'm looking forward to 2023. But I think our guest is here. So when we come back, let's quickly go on a break. When we come back from the break, we'll have GRV join us. And let's quickly just milk as much information as we can in such a short time. Stay with us. We'll be right back. All right. Thanks for staying with us now. Badebo Rhodes Viva, popularly known as GRV, or the hopeful Nigerian, is the gobernatorial candidate, Labor Party, Labor State, an architect, and a businessman, is had his first degree in architecture from Nottingham University and a master's degree from the prestigious MIT Boston. Now, he ventured into politics in 2017 by contesting for chairmanship of a Keja local government under core party. And in 2019 at 35, he won the ticket of the People's Democratic Party to contest for Lagos Senatorial West. And again, Badebo is a strong believer in Nigeria's future. And he devotes himself to developing fellow young people to take on the mantle of leadership. He's currently the govno, govno ship candidate that is putting everybody on their toes in Lagos and his join us live in studio. Thank you so much. Always happy to be here. Yeah, so we are a friend of the house, so we couldn't have not had this conversation, but thank you so much. I mean, because time has really passed, I really want us to just quickly run through a lot of things. How prepared is Labor Party for Saturday, March 15th? March 11th. And we're very prepared. You know, we went into the previous election believing that there was going to be an electronic transmission of voting. And seeing what actually happened and seeing the results, because from our results, from our situation when we got over 900,000 votes, and the PDP situation reports also say the same thing. So since the INEC wants to take elections back to 2015 type elections, then we are going to be prepared, we are prepared for that. And we're also prepared for any form of intimidation or harassment that anybody thinks they want to bring against our people and our supporters. It's going to resist everything that we have. So I encourage everybody to come out and vote. They fooled us the first time. We saw the military vans moving around and I have to commend the military. They did bring a level of sanity to politics in Lagos. And I thank them for that. And I ask that they do the same again, March 11th. But we are also prepared to resist any form of intimidation or harassment. And it's one thing to think, you have to think about it. Why would a government that has had power for so many years feel the need that they must harass and intimidate their way to keep a strong hold on a state like Lagos? It literally is them condemning and indicting themselves. Because if you've done well, people should go to vote freely and put you back in office. Not all this intimidation. I mean civil servants are being forced to vote. I mean, they are blackmailed, they are harassed. I'm coming from Halaba and going, you know, go to Alimo Shoddi. The ballet of Ijegun has come out to say that he's going to do Uroh festival. So non-indigents should not come out from tomorrow to Monday. Wow. Meanwhile, it's something where nobody should come out at all. Not just non-indigents. Well, you see, these are also, we have to petition the commissioner, the police, the DPO of Alimo Shoddi, and also get the DSS involved in this. Because we're not going to tolerate all of this. Right? We're working everything. You saw the injunction we got against INEC. And also injunction we got against INEC using MCLOMO. We're laying all the tiles, because this is a long game. But we're going to win on Saturday. I'm very confident of that. I was in Halaba today in Shalefair, and the reception was amazing. People's spirits and their tempo is still quite high. And we want a new Lagos, we want a new Nigeria. And also, I have to say on TV that Peter Albi is going to get his mandate back. Of that, I'm sure. We are hopeful for that. So, I mean, I like what you're saying, you know, but one of the things that they, of course, your opposition have been throwing at different people is, oh, what experience does Badegbo have? He's just a businessman. He's an architect. And then what, you know, he doesn't have experience in governance. You know, what do you want to say to those kinds of people that say that? I asked them, what experience did Aladjilati Ujjakondi have in public service? What experience did Aladjilati Ujjakondi have in public service? And these are the people that they look up to. What Aladjilati Ujjakondi did in four and a half years, the ABC government has not been able to do it in two decades. And what drove him? It was his capacity, his transparency, because he was not a thief, and his love for his people, and his visionary sort of leadership. And that's what it's about. Anybody that's been in this government for 20 years has only gotten experience in maintaining the status quo of state capture, of aggregating wealth to one man, his family, and his cronies, of being surrounded by water or supply and water. Me, while they grew up in legal state, they could drink water from the tap. Of having 16, about 15% of people that send their children to school, send their children to public school, which means even the maid in a house that's barely earning enough is trying to get her children into private school. But these people that are complaining, that are saying that they have all this experience, they were able to go to public school. And this is the ligos that we're in now, that they're giving us. But they enjoyed the ligos that they had. They were not flying abroad for injection that time. So Aladjilati Ujjakondi and Jennifer Cummings, just to take you back to what you just said, two decades of nothing. How do you think you want to correct that? Oh, well, first of all, legal state has tremendous wealth. And when I say wealth, I'm not just talking about money, I'm talking about the capacity of human capital. Because people are making so much, they're pushing so many boundaries. And you consider all the odds against them, the traffic situation, the government working against them, government shake down, multiple taxations, lack of an enabling environment. Legal state ranks lower than Kaduna in terms of ease of doing business. And Kaduna is doing Boko Haram issues. But meanwhile, legal state is supposed to be commercial capital of Nigeria. So the moment you open up legal state accounts, make a transfer and set benchmarks to determine, okay, this is a good deal. Based on world best practices for road, for rail, then you can now start to stretch your resources. The moment people start to see transference and accountability in your governance, the more the private sector is willing to invest in it. Because legal state is feasible, it's underserved, there's so many problems that need to be solved. And people will key into it. And many other parts of Nigeria that no matter how brilliant your idea is, you don't have the population to be able to make projects feasible. But legal state is one of the smallest states, or is the smallest state in Nigeria, where it has the hugest population. So it is extremely feasible to do things here. So for me, it's just, I mean, what Jaconde achieved in four and a half years is the, is that standard that I want to top. And I believe that we can do it. We can do it with the civil service. You see now there's a lot of black people are going, the APC government saying I'm going to fire the entire civil service. Because I hear from the presidential results that they actually almost lost in Alousa. But let me let the ladies come in. Okay, so I was going to talk about state capture, but I think you've touched on that a bit. Okay, let me now come to transportation. We know that Lekepe Expressway is one very busy, and then we have just that straight road that goes all the way to it. So I'm going to ask, are you going to provide any alternatives? Is there anything you're going to do about that? There's a coastal road that's supposed to be linking from down near Ruviae side. But currently it has been built upon and there's Shaks there, which is a no problem affordable housing. So we're going to connect that coastal road all the way down to Bajileke. And then on the other side, we're going to connect a coastal road from a corridor all the way down to Ekme. And then link these two roads by six kilometer bridges, at least three or four, right? That we've created a belt road and a belt road design, which is most efficient means of moving things around. And that would then open up this corridor. But for some reason, again, all of these things that seem, there doesn't seem to be a true effort by this government to actually make the lives of legulations easier. Every development that comes into place is simply a means of capturing more wealth for themselves, right? But that is why we keep saying that Legos it is stifled and Legos needs to breathe again. Because for any development to happen, it must be that a certain interest has been taken care of. But we are going to change that and create a Legos thing that is platform driven. So if you have a truck and truck misrequirements, you plug, play, you have your route, you pick waste, you take it for recycling, upcycling, you don't need to know anybody in the party. This is interesting what you're saying, but let me bring you back to Govno Ambody. I hope you know that one of the bane of his downfall was the fact that he wanted to bring some of these innovations, right? Because there's an existing structure, two decades is not a joke, it's not too yet. So how? No way, no way. You see, you've answered your question. Ambody came through a structure that was extremely corrupt and only was focused on themselves and their interests and wanted to bring innovation to it. You see, that's why I'm not going around under the APC. Because as I'm saying all of these things in my head, I was just thinking that's nonsense you can never do because these people benefit from the mediocrity that Legos is in. But coming from another platform and bringing a new voter demographic, you remember every time I've come in for the last two years, I've always said this. We are bringing a new voter demographic to the ballot. We are redefining politics in Legos state. So when we take this power, we can make things more efficient, right? Because now we're creating a new system. We are still working with the existing structures, the civil service, all of those people. The civil service, Latif Jahkondi are the civil service. We are going to increase their salaries. We're going to give them more training. We're going to pay them a living wage, not a minimum wage. By the time you do these things to the civil, for the civil servants, you can then, let me give you an example. See, because you pay people so poorly, you still pay the opportunity cost because of all the bribes that they take and how inefficient they make Legos, which you then pay an ultimate cost because people and businesses are not going to come into Legos. When you look at ease of doing business and the poor rankings of Legos state, you need to understand that a lot of business is actually lost based on that. So we pay our civil servants well. We give them quality training. We reward merits and excellence. And we work with that civil service. Latif Jahkondi worked with the civil service. All of them worked with the civil service, right? So it's how the head goes, the body will follow. And that is what's going to happen to my government. I believe that the civil servants, they want to be excellent. They want to be able to be productive. I don't, I think that it's like how people think that this aggro is on the road, just want to be lazy. They don't want to do any work. It's because the state government has enabled them. They use them at this time to suppress votes. So whatever else they do, they discard them. But it doesn't mean that those young men don't want to work if you give them the opportunity or they don't want to get skills if you give them the opportunity, right? And that's exactly how I see governance. So please, any civil servant watching this, your jobs are safe. In fact, you're going to earn more. You're going to have a better quality of life. You're going to have the access will to move to a middle class level of work. And the only people that have anything to fear are the people that have been stealing from the commonwealth of Lagos for two decades. So I like what you've said, but I'm going, I want you to touch on two points. You said you're going to give the civil servants living wages and no more minimum wage. And to me that's interesting and also very exciting. But riding on the living wage, now the standard of living right now in Lagos is very high, extremely high. Now talking about housing, if I want to rent an apartment, I know two, three weeks ago a friend of mine rented a one bedroom apartment for about 3.5 million. And to me that's ridiculous. I know how much he earns. And I don't know how sustainable that would be. So how are you going to tackle this? How do we get affordable housing? Because it feels like every year, year in, year out, it increases. I know how much I pay where I'm scared to leave. I should have moved out last year, but I couldn't because looking at houses and the prices people were giving me, it didn't make any sense to me. Am I supposed to rob a bank to be able to pay for an apartment? It doesn't make any sense. And then sometimes I know people come in with money, okay, you get to a point where your, your living wage or your monthly income has increased or your annual income has increased and people want better lives for themselves, but they can't make those changes if housing is really expensive. So people end up staying in places that are not conducive for them because that is what they can afford. So I put it to you. I'm asking you how do you intend to tackle this issue? Please ask him because he's the architect. Thank you. And I was going to say I'm uniquely positioned to solve this problem as an architect. Please tell us. So, so firstly, the issue now is that Lagos State Development is too centralized. So everybody is working or wanting to come to work in Lagos Central and everybody wants to live close to this place where there's development, right? So we need to open that up. And that comes with the coastal road design I talked about. So you're opening up Northern for sure. You're opening up Lagos East. We also need to open up Lagos West. That's the Badagri Division. Bring development in there. I ran for Lagos West Center. So I've seen the state of development there. Development people and that actually try to go through like they're part of Lagos. So by, for instance, extending the blue line all the way down to Badagri and you can now get on the train and come from Badagri or Joe to VI, right? Automatically, if you are now spending 35 minutes on the train, it's now feasible to live in those places. You now increase the housing stock on these two ends. When supply starts to exceed demand, prices start to fall. The issue is that right now, housing stock has not exceeded demand, right? So there needs to be a lot more housing stock built in places where the land is cheaper. Now, because people are building so much on in Lagos Central in this era, you have to think about the piling, the cost of the land. Imagine like in Atlantic, how much it had to cost to get all of that sand filled. All of that will reflect in the cost of the building, which would then reflect in the cost of the rent. When you start to build in places that are on solid ground like Badagri, like CoDivision, it's a lot cheaper. And in doing that and creating a statewide transportation network, you can now open up Lagos State and start making local governments that are sustainable and are self-sufficient in themselves, which then incentivizes companies start to relocate there. And with us as well, we're pushing for companies to have incentives for their workers to work from home at least once or twice a week. They get tax breaks, right? So the most important thing is to connect Lagos properly so that in moving around, you don't spend three hours in traffic anymore. The moment you do that, like on a Saturday, you actually realize that Lagos is not that big, right? Because it's so easy to move around, right? And then you start to realize that if the environment is clean, you have all the infrastructure you need, you have your healthcare systems, you have your primary education systems, you actually don't really need to move about too much. And that's that quality of development needs to go across all of Lagos. And that's what's currently lacking. I mean, I mean, because again, we had said before you came on board that there are some parts of Lagos that don't feel any government presence. And it's sad, because if you really talk about, because I want to bring it to ethnicity, because it's one of the things that have been driving your position, saying you will, you will hand over Lagos to EVOS, you know, and all of that. But the EVOS for me, I feel like, you know, they are very industrious and they've been able to bring in a lot of development funds, capital into the contributed heavily in the GDP of Lagos. So if you really want to move away from the pettiness of the campaign that is going on around ethnicity, what would you say? How do you intend to tap into some of this? Because I believe so much in human capital. How do we tap into that and just bring everybody together and see how to build truly? Because Lagos has the capacity, I was saying it before you came on board, has the capacity to even do much better than Dubai, because we have everything that can make us a mega truly class mega city. How do we now tie up all of these things nicely? And if you had one promise, you know, to give to anyone that's watching, what would that promise be? It will be to create infrastructure, to go into all these markets and create an even quality of development across Lagos state. You see the roads that are going to the markets all around the Bad Agri Division, the inner roads as well, is a complete mess. It's Mediocard best and all of these things. And then also you then have, for instance, I'm calling from Malaba, right? Two things that they said, one, the roads and the whole Agri system where people that are bringing things into the markets, they are being, the money is collected from them four or five times on the same road, people taking things out of the market. So people just don't even want to go to the markets to buy things. And they literally said to me that the volume of commerce that has happened has nose dived. So not just because of the economy, but because of the infrastructure decay, right? So we're going to connect the markets a lot more. I mean, like on that axis, you're trying to get roads that are coming in from a limo shop from a moor doffing, making it easy for transactions to happen. Also ensuring that the road infrastructure is solid and taking away all these young men that are wasting our lives on a sheet and reducing the ease of doing business, giving them employability skills so they become more productive, right? So these are things that we're going to focus on in relation to what you talked about. And I like that I said that I won't take away the pertinence of this thing because the amount of wealth that the Igbo's Southeastiners and really non-Indians in legal state have brought to legal state, they are a major pillar in the economy of legal states. And it's very unfortunate because legal states, the indiges of legal states have a culture of openness and welcoming. This is why a man from Miraguji could become something in legal state. A man from Quara could become something. A man that's representing Keja from Kogi could become something, right? But then all of a sudden there is this desire to change that culture and start pointing fingers and leave development out of the areas where this will live. And that's what we're going to change as governor of Lagos. Absolutely. Let's quickly take comments then. Go ahead. So past governors who came into power had also made promises. A lot of them had said different things that they want to do. And here you are, you're also making promises and you're saying a lot more things, things that appeal into a lot of Lagosians. So my question to you is why should we trust you? Why should we believe you? And if you don't deliver, what happens? Ah, we will kick you out. I love that. So the fact of the matter is I can only get into position because the people put me there. I'm not buying my way into office. I don't have the degree and voter suppression to get my way into office. And there's a thing like between love and hate. When people have put you in and you let them down, they will get you out. So the honest is now on me to deliver. And that's why it's important for people to participate in politics. Voter apartheid has killed our democracy. And what we saw last week's Saturday showed quality voter engagement. We want it and also have to correct this idea that it was a win by a particular tribe. No. Lagosians voted for Peter Obie. Of course, we want in Koshofe. More European people. Yes, we want in Koshofe, which is mainly populated by Yobas. We want in Shomoli, which is mainly populated by Yobas. We want in Limosho. Magoddo. Magoddo, which is mainly populated by Yobas. We want in Kejah, which is mainly populated by Yobas. So people are tired, right? And so that's one aspect of it. Secondly, I think when a politician comes to talk, you should look at their pedigree, look at their antecedents. My love for Lagos and my love for Nigeria, I've been preparing myself for this for the last 12 years. Or more, even, more than that. Every decision, whether it's going to MIT and my thesis is on solve, creating communal waste management systems for which I've got a distinction, or working with the American government to solve flooding in cities because of Lagos coastal nature and getting those skills and capacity, or working with the Chinese government to build vertically without losing community touch, because that is where Lagos needs to go because of a small footprint. Come back to Nigeria and get involved in affordable housing or focusing on fighting the government based on their policies in relation to genetic modified foods. I love Lagos. I love Lagos. I love Lagos. I love Lagos. This is where my pedigree comes from. This is everything to me. So I've shown this consistently, whether it's being part of the ENSA's movement, I've always stood on the side of the people. And it's not something that you can fake. And you can't go and verify that. Okay, this one says, Hello Waste Ladies, my message is to Jervie. Jervie should disregard the petty tribal. Is he a political, more slinging antics? A weak person who lacks capacity to debate objectively on a subject matter. Resorts to baseless name calling. I'm listening for you and this is from Ufama. God bless you. Thank you. Good evening, my dear beautiful sisters of water. Are you saying hashtag waste? Lagos gubernatorial race. I thank God for everything and for another opportunity to cast our votes again come Saturday 11th of March 2023. My comments are not much. Honestly speaking, I am here to recover from the daylight robbery during the last election. I cannot be proud of having someone who knows that he rigged an election as a president. It does not make sense to me at all. Your guest made mention of something that has made my day and I can confidently sleep well this night. He said that Peter will be regaining his mandate back and it sounds like music to my ears. Thank you so much. My prayer is that Labour Party wins on Saturday. Thank you so much. My name is Daniel Ile. I think a lot of people are rooting for you, Jervie. You bring freshness to this campaign. I'm proud to say that you are a friend of the House and we're looking forward to Saturday. For those young people go out there and vote. Then if you missed our quote for today, here it is again. Okay, so it says we cannot be mere consumers of good governance. We must be participants. We must be co-creators. You must be part of people that bring in good people into governance. Thank you again and I'm saying to you that I wish you all the best for Saturdays, March 11th. See you guys tomorrow at 8 p.m. I also bring another great conversation to use me. Thank you ladies.