That Governor Ambode has achieved so many feats in Lagos State within a short pace of his term so far is no longer news, the question of motivation and driving force behind his supersonic delivery. In the last 30 months, the Gov. Ambode has accomplished of projects that ordinarily would take 4 years or more to achieve.
City People’s Publisher Seye Kehinde in an exclusive interview with the Governor had the opportunity to inquire from the governor the driving force to achieve so much in just 2 ½ years..
Read his response below…
Your Excellency, your team members have confessed that they always struggle to catch up with your pace of work and the speed with which you accomplish your task. Why are you moving at such a supersonic speed and pace?
Let me tell you straight away. It’s too straightforward. There are over 22 million people in this state. They are all looking up to one person to give them direction. If you’ve been a hardworker, and if you have been very successful in your career, you have never taken a shortcut, you don’t cut corners, you are not blackmailing people to rise, the burden of responsibility is huge.
When I wake up in the morning, I am looking at it as I can’t afford to fail, or if I fail, many lives would be affected. I would have failed 22 million people. So, the work is my life I would do everything to perform very well. I have no other job. They did not beg me that I should come and campaign. I stood up and I said, you know what? I have the competence. I have the capability and the character to do this job. And I told them I would do it diligently. So, how can I look back? I cannot. If after 4 years, they say I have done a good job, that would give me satisfaction.
Naturally, I am a hard-worker. But again, I am also a hard player. If you don’t work hard, you cannot play hard. That’s the bottom line. There is no point deceiving ourselves. So, the truth is this. I put all my totality in my task. My totality means all my team members. I inspire them. I encourage them. I tell them they can be better than the way they came, all just because we are working together as a team. Never shut anybody out. Never even put anybody down, and say, look you cannot do this. In that person maybe a key to unlock the solutions to some of the societal challenges in Lagos. So that’s who
I am.
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