12 Talking Points Of Tinubu’s Meeting With Lagos Corporate Business Community

The All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday met with leaders of Corporate business Community in Lagos.

Several Governors, poltical and business leaders including Aliko Dangote Tony Elumelu, Jim Ovia, and Herbert Wigwe are all in attendance.

Here are 12 Talking Points of the Meeting.

1. “Lagos is an appropriate venue for this meeting.

2. “You may have heard that I was once governor of this dynamic economic force. However, may I remind you that when I first entered office, Lagos was a different story.

3. “My team and I developed a blueprint, a master plan, for Lagos. I can say that plan has been largely successful.

4. “We turned this state into a safer, more prosperous place where people can go about any legitimate vocation or venture regardless of their ethnicity, religion, region or prior social station.

5. “We did more than open Lagos for business. We opened the door for all Nigeria to join and experience the decent things progressive democratic governance can bring.

6. “We were not perfect but we did a lot.
“In doing so, we worked hand in hand with the business community as partners sharing the same goals of prosperity and renewed hope.

7“Well, as you might have heard at some point recently, I now stand before you, seeking a bigger yet similar job.”
“Nigeria stands at the threshold between indifference and greatness, prosperity and poverty, the future and the past.

8. “The door is ajar. Together, let us open it so that we may cross over to the better side and secure for this beloved nation its finer destiny.
The productive and beneficial things we seek do not lie in the sole domain of one sector. They reside in the cooperation between government and the private sector.

9. “I see no conflict between the business community and government. Yet, with equal conviction, I believe the private sector and government should constantly be at war.
“But they wage this battle not as enemies. They must stand as inseparable allies combating the mutual enemies of scarcity, underdevelopment, joblessness and the fear these bad things breed.

9. “The pragmatic problem solving and teamwork that improved Lagos, I want to bring to this nation.
“I ask your help as the task ahead is doable but also difficult,” he added.

10. He empathised that the nation needed to move from dependence on exporting its raw materials to nations who sell the finished products to us at exorbitant prices to one that refines its raw materials for upward export itself.

11. Praising the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration for its patriotism and commitment, he itemised his administration plans to build on their achievements.

12. These, he said include reviving dead industries, promote agriculture, provide power, produce and use made in Nigeria goods, build infrastructure and most importantly improve the country’s security.