Dr. Nnamdi Azikwe saw in federalism the best structure to release the potential and comparative advantages of every part of Nigeria. Sir Ahmadu Bello saw federalism as the “only guarantee that the country will grow evenly all over, we can spend the money we receive, the money we raise, in the direction best suited to us.”

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First, he declared war on sit-at-home, its enforcers and other criminals that had held the state by the jugular. He went on to invest heavily in security, especially technology. In a matter of weeks, the newly constructed ultra-modern Command and Control Centre and its associated hi-tech surveillance cameras that are being installed around the state will be commissioned. These cameras, which are equally being installed on the Distress Response Squad vehicles, are capable of number plate and facial recognitions. Once the face is captured, the suspect can be tracked down via the databanks.

As the days go by, it is becoming clearer to even the naysayers that Enugu State heeded this advice and got it right in the last election. Mbah was very strong on the economy during the campaigns. In his 64-page manifesto, he stated in unmistakable terms that his vision was to grow the state’s economy from $4.4bn to $30bn, raise the state to one of the top three economies Nigeria by GDP, eradicate poverty, and make the state the premier destination for business, investment, tourism, and for living in four to eight years.

Today, the Nigerian economy is in a state of emergency. The tragedy is that unlike other federations such as the U.S, which boasts of about $3.36 trillion GDP in California, $2.1 trillion GDP in Texas and $2.0 trillion GDP in New York, all in different states and usually driven by various industries, ours is a mono-economy that virtually

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A consummate entrepreneur and founder of Pinnacle Oil and Gas Limited, which is the market leader in Nigeria’s downstream petroleum industry, Mbah understands that investors do not joke with ease of doing business. They naturally gravitate to a de-risked investment environment because they are not Santa Claus. So, he set forth at dawn to do exactly that.

and falls on oil and where states practically depend on the Federation Account for survival.” I went further to enjoin Nigerians to rise above the over-dramatisation of the presidency as well as the primordial considerations and mundane rhetoric that characterised gubernatorial contests to elect governors capable reengineering the economy of their states.

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