Governor, Babatunde Fashola, of Lagos State on Wednesday tasked the 36 states governors to work towards reviving the Nigeria Governors’ Forum before leaving office in 2015.
The Nation reports that the governor made the call during a dialogue session organised by the Kukah Centre for Faith and Leadership Research.
He described as embarrassing that the Forum which they inherited from their predecessors was going into extinction in their era, noting that if allowed to happen, the next set of governors may not have a Governors’ Forum.
Fashola, who explained that government and elected officials must acknowledged that the problems of Nigeria revolve around the people of the country, said nothing was wrong with the country but the in the value system of the people.
“If we agree that the problems revolve around people, then the difference will lie in the method. The Presidential system we use is the American system. As a matter of national value, the Americans agree that anybody who earns income must pay tax” he said. “The essential quality for institutions to do well is people. When institutions do well, it is because good people have done the right thing and when they do badly, it is because bad people have been allowed to take charge.”
According to him, there is nothing mysterious about institutions since what drive institutions are good men and women. He said such people cannot be discovered until there is a convergence of ideas and values. The governor urged his counterpart to be driven by a nationalistic value system because if the nation should fall, there would not be any party to save.
Fashola stressed that you can only have a united actions when there are shared values, adding that it is only when the values systems are different that you can sit down in a governor’s forum and have an election where some persons will say a smaller number is higher than the other number.
He revealed that though he was embarrassed with the development, especially as they were all in the same club where the incident occurred, he expressed optimism that before they leave office, the last thing they can do is to give back to those who will succeed them what they inherited from their predecessors.
It would be recalled that on June 6, 2014, the Nigerian governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) held their fourth retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
The Nation reports that the governor made the call during a dialogue session organised by the Kukah Centre for Faith and Leadership Research.
He described as embarrassing that the Forum which they inherited from their predecessors was going into extinction in their era, noting that if allowed to happen, the next set of governors may not have a Governors’ Forum.
Fashola, who explained that government and elected officials must acknowledged that the problems of Nigeria revolve around the people of the country, said nothing was wrong with the country but the in the value system of the people.
“If we agree that the problems revolve around people, then the difference will lie in the method. The Presidential system we use is the American system. As a matter of national value, the Americans agree that anybody who earns income must pay tax” he said. “The essential quality for institutions to do well is people. When institutions do well, it is because good people have done the right thing and when they do badly, it is because bad people have been allowed to take charge.”
According to him, there is nothing mysterious about institutions since what drive institutions are good men and women. He said such people cannot be discovered until there is a convergence of ideas and values. The governor urged his counterpart to be driven by a nationalistic value system because if the nation should fall, there would not be any party to save.
Fashola stressed that you can only have a united actions when there are shared values, adding that it is only when the values systems are different that you can sit down in a governor’s forum and have an election where some persons will say a smaller number is higher than the other number.
He revealed that though he was embarrassed with the development, especially as they were all in the same club where the incident occurred, he expressed optimism that before they leave office, the last thing they can do is to give back to those who will succeed them what they inherited from their predecessors.
It would be recalled that on June 6, 2014, the Nigerian governors, under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) held their fourth retreat in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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