 This is the Greater Lagos Region and I am your host, Love Ikuku Oyedoku. The Lagos State Governor, Baba Jidesomu Luhat said that he would run an inclusive government. The governor said he strongly believes that just as diversity prepares progress, Lagosians must propose to make diversity but prosperity for the state. Our Greater Lagos is indeed rising and this is the Greater Lagos Region. Welcome once again, I'm Love Ikuku Oyedoku. This episode features Lagos Govnorship Election. Tawonu receives certificate of return, says next four years would be more rewarding. Infrastructure, Lagos Rail Mass Transit, Red Line Project to become reality before end of first tenure. Lagos Government signs MOU with FinTech company eTransact on Management of Setbacks Open Spaces. Details of these are many more when we return. Please stay with us. Let's get started. Lagos State Governor Baba Jidesomu Luh has disclosed that his second term mandate was won on the strength of Lagos diversity, irrespective of faith, greed or tongue. The governor who stated this while receiving the certificate of return from the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC declared that it was time for the state to move forward and forge new frontiers for its progress. It was another great moment for Governor Baba Jidesomu Luh, his deputy Dr Hamzad Obafemi, as INEC hands them the certificate of return for a second term in office. The governor won the March 18 election in a landslide victory pulling 762,134 votes to defeat his rivals. The way joined by their wives, cabinet members and leaders of the all-progressive congress, APC to witness the epoch-making event which took place at the INEC office in Yabba Lagos. Saulu declared that he won his second term mandate on the strength of Lagos diversity. The governor expressed gratitude to the electorate for giving him and his party an overwhelming victory and renewing the mandate to lead the state for another four years. My deputy and good people of Lagos state, you have been with us every step of this journey providing feedback, sharing your opinions, holding us accountable and as you commence the next phase of this journey that will take us to 2027 by the grace of Almighty God I want to continue to hold us accountable as your elected servants as your servant leader in Lagos. We have made promises indeed, we have also delivered on so many of those promises. In the last few months you have been, you've seen a lot of communication around what you've been able to modestly accomplish over the last almost four years now in line with our team's agenda. Now as you take the work to a new level of performance we will complete all our ongoing projects that we've started and will ensure that new ones are funded, they are prioritized and they will be delivered. This is our solemn promise to you all. He urged the residents to continue to uphold the ideas of hard work, tolerance, innovative energy quest for excellence which he said united and bound Lagosians together. Let us never forget that we are Lagosians first and foremost united by ideas that the mega city of our status and buildings were hard working, were tolerant, we have a lot of diversity amongst us were innovative with a lot of energy and we have an un-aiming quest for excellence. Every day regardless of where in Lagos we live or what our mother tongue or darling is or what gods ask us to worship we are all set out from the hope and expectation that our horses will pay off one day that today will be better than yesterday and indeed tomorrow will be a better today for all of us. These ideals and aspirations are the things that truly matter to us and above any of the differences that may exist amongst us. So we look for them made a passionate appeal to the residents to remain lower abiding, promote citizenship and fulfill their civic obligations including obeying laws, paying taxes and being brothers capers. I want to thank the leadership of INEC for doing this very very big assignment for a nation and to all of you who have witnessed the certificate of return that have just redundant over to all of us to begin for us to see and expect a bigger and a better Lagos which is rising in our life which will be in the next four years something of joy and happiness that indeed all of us will be glad of. God bless Lagos state, God bless the federal republic of Nigeria and as we say, it be like miracle. Thank you very much. Governor Sir Wulu promised never to take people's confidence in him for granted. Everybody has the right to continue to co-exist peacefully in harmony with understanding and given tenets for the rule of law and for being lower abiding. That's what Lagosia is all about and that's who we are. The ability for us for you to be resilient and live peacefully and this simple but more important event as further confirmed to us that we can indeed live peacefully and uniquely amongst ourselves. Like we said, elections are over, politics is over, governance which is a critical state of purposeful leadership is what is on the beat now, is what is on course and we believe like of a short Lagosian that we will even do a bigger job quicker, faster and better than we have done in the last four years. For us, it's to be gracious in reaching and ensure that we can accommodate everyone. I've exaggerated earlier today and I'm saying it again, a government will be an inclusive one ready to listen, ready to pick up whatever additional advice that might be out there from anybody and we're willing to sit to it, to sit down and be able to give everybody an opportunity to come in and play the governance of Lagosia with us. He also paid glowing tribute to the president-elect for La Akme Chinibu for laying solid foundations for the future generations to build upon. Lagosia state governor Babajide Somulu has assured Lagosians that the construction of the red line rail project would be completed and ready for use before the end of his first time in office. Somulu restated this while fielding questions from journalists shortly after an inspection tour of the project and vehicular overpass bridges at Yaba and Uyengbu train stations. The inspection tour of the red line rail project kicked off at the Agige Station accompanied by some of his cabinet members the governor was on ground to get update on the level of work done. From Agige to Mushi, Yaba and Uyengbu stations the focus is on the physical infrastructures. Looking satisfied with the level of work Somulu stated that the Ibutemeta vehicular bridge overpass was 75% to 80% completed while that of Yaba was 95% completed. With the train station we believe we are about 75% to 80% completion and the bridge it's about 90%, 95% but the Ajonin route around Yaba still needs to be cleaned up so in total we think it's about 90%, 85% to 90% there and we are satisfied with the level of work which was done by Step construction and Messages Creambook who are doing the bridge there you could see also there a lot of commercial activity especially all around the rail track and part of the essence of this visit is for us to continue to do a lot of advocacy for traders on that track that the truck will be fully walled off when the stations are completed and you saw from the turn out of citizens there that they are living in peaceful coexistence amongst all of our ethnic national in Yabba, Teju show and all the environs there. And coming also here, which is the Winbu interchange by Apaparut, the station is over there, the station is also about 95% completed, that is the station over there, it is just doing the pedestrian bridge walk, but the overpass, I mean the vehicle overpass which is where we are standing in our view, I still need a few things to be done, especially with the adjoining routes and the final lane of the bridge itself. So we say this one is about 70, 75% because all the columns and all the beams have been completed is really more around to do the ash parting, to do the street light and to complete the adjoining routes that are beneath here. So we are also still satisfied, we believe, you probably didn't notice, while we are passing the epitometer station, the red lines trains were parked on the right hand side, from Yabba we could see the trains themselves, so they are parked away from the track by the epitometer station there. So we believe we are still on track, you know, we believe that it should be ready before the end of, depending on when we want to commission it before the end of our first term, we'll probably just be doing a lot of testing, you know, signalization and all of it, because this real track will also be working with the Niger Railway Corporation, which is the train from Lagos, from epitometer here, all the way to Ibadan. So we need to be able to harmonize a lot of signalization between our own rail infrastructure and the Niger Railway Corporation rail infrastructure. We governor strongly holds that after the completion of the projects, accidents such as the recent train bus collision in Ikeja would never reoccur. You can see, and as you can see, all of these bridges are very, very important because of what we saw, the unfortunate train bus accident that we saw about two and a half weeks ago, were at Shogule, you know, there was a grid crossing. And so all of these bridges that were building, apart from fact that they are full vehicular bridges, is also to for store, you know, train and vehicle and passenger needed to, you know, have any form of interaction. So this is the highest grade of ensuring that you can completely remove any contact with rail. That's when you build a complete, you know, alternative mode of transportation for passengers, for pedestrian and for vehicles, you know, and that's what we have seen here. And so you can see that we have this similar bridge, you know, not only in the Pute Meta here in Old Yabba, what's this place now? Apaparu Junction, we have another one at Yabba. We have another one at Mushi, Mushi to that crosses to Onipan, you know, and we have the Ikeja along, you know, we're also building one ferragomen at Ayola Koka, you know, so that is also going on. So there are one or two others that will still need to be built, you know, in the course of the coming years ahead. So we will state that efforts will be intensified to educate and enlighten traders of the dangers of being on the right of way of the red line rail. The 37 kilometre rail route is built to run from Agbadu to Marina with 13 stations in Agbadu, Iju, Aegege, Ikeja, Mauritola-Mohamed International Airport, MMA, domestic, Oshudi, Mushi, Yabba, Ebute Meta, Ido, Ebutero and Marina. Let us state, Governor, Baba Yidesawolu has described the construction of the Oba Sekumadi Road in Ikorodu as a thank you gift for electorates in Ikorodu. Sawolu spoke during the inauguration of the newly upgraded road. The inauguration of the newly upgraded Oba Sekumadi Road in Ikorodu, Ikorodu Division saw the residents into spontaneous tribulation in a show-offs appreciation to Legal State Governor Baba Yidesawolu for fulfilling his pledge. So we will state that efforts will be intensified to educate and enlighten traders of the dangers of being on the right of way of the red line rail. Sawolu commissioned the infrastructure which now provides easy access to residents and industrial areas in Ibishi, Ikorodu Town and Ikorodu Mega Jetty Terminal. The governor also rehabilitated the failed sections of the TOS Benzi Road covering a stretch of 500 meters. To ease vehicular congestion on the TOS Benzi Road, a comprehensive junction improvement project was carried out by the state government to diffuse traffic towards Ikorodu roundabout. The intervention saw the busy road upgraded from a single lane to rigid concrete drawer carriageway, thereby improving connectivity and bringing relief to commuting public, plying the roads. This junction where we have here, and you can see all of infrastructure that is here. MPA has a container terminal, DANGUTE has a terminal here, we have a big jetty terminal here, and from TOS Benzi all the way to Ibishi, we have another jetty terminal at Ibishi. And so you can see that this is a very strategic entry road that opens up Ikorodu Kingdom, opens up Ikorodu Township into other parts of this division. So Wulu described the commissioning as a thank you gift for the electorate in Ikorodu division for turning out as the second largest vote number that made this party or progressive congress ABC to win the last co-bonitorial election. And our thanks is no bound. Ikorodu has indeed been good to all of us. Ikorodu has continued to remain a place of reference, a place of heritage, a community that always always always stand outstanding. Ikorodu has also always been a place of reference, a place of heritage, a place of heritage. We all have been inspired by this country and have been doing this. Especially Gawne, you are the beacon, you are the light. Don't worry, other divisions might want to compete with you, but we know where Ikorodu is. The special adviser to the governor on works and infrastructure engineer Aramidi Adiyoye said the upgrade of the oba circumvented road to a rigid pavement while carriageway did not only solve traffic problems experienced on the highway but also solved flooding issues threatening adjoining residential communities. In 2009, when we came on board, arising from several complaints by the commuters on this road, on the condition of the roadway coupled with the perennial flooding experienced by the adjoining communities, due to the natural drainage system, the present administration decided to take the bull by the own. This was after extensive engineering investigations and tests of the underlying soil by adopting a more expensive but more sustainable and enduring pavement as against what the flexible pavement that you had. And of course we then decided to have a continuously reinforced concrete pavement for the reconstruction work. We also mentioned that the goal of this project was also to resolve the perennial flooding issues around Ogolomto, Omolagede, Ipakodo and Environs. The huge voids turned out from Ikorodu according to residents is a way to reciprocate the governor's gesture towards renewing infrastructure in the town. As part of measures to curb unregulated development, manage setbacks and open spaces as well as improve the beautification of the environment, the legal state government has signed a memorandum of understanding with e-transact, a foremost fintech company. At the signing of the MOU, the special advisor to governor Babajide Sawulu on EGIS and planning matters, Dr. Olagide Babatunde said the initiative was a public-private partnership aimed at improving accountability as well as the IGR of legal states. It only takes a visionary leader like Governor Babajide Olushola Sawulu for things like this to happen. We also established the agency about 22 years ago. The journey of 1,000 miles only starts with one step. It's always important to take that step or baby steps so that we get it right. Initially, this is something that we thought government can do alone. But eventually we realized that a true public-private partnership, things like this are possible. For his part, the managing director of e-transact, Nyi Tolua Lokme said his organization was partnering with the state government for social development. He also added that the project would develop solutions on data enumeration, re-order setbacks, put incidental open spaces in an orderly manner among other benefits. That's all we have for you on this episode of the Greater Lagos Vision on Plus TV Africa. I'm Lovie Kuku Oyeduku. Bye for now.