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KonkNaija Media | May 3, 2016

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The Nigerian Dream Is REAL – Gov. Fashola

The Governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola (SAN) has assured that the Nigerian Dream is not elusive but alive and capable of transforming the citizens to become whatever they want to become in the country.

Gov. Fashola made this statement in a speech at the public presentation of a book, “Out of Africa: Fashola, Reinventing Servant leadership to Engender Nigeria’s Transformation” by Dr. John M.O. Ekundayo. The event took place at the Event Center, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, on November 15, 2013, Friday.

According to him, the Nigerian Dream had seemingly been ‘elusive’ because Nigerians have not taken time to define and confront it as a national phenomenon.

“The Nigerian Dream is not elusive. It is because we have not confronted and felt about what it has become for us. We haven’t defined it. The American dream is more attractive to us. But the Nigerian dream happens here every day. It is the Nigerian dream that makes me stand here”, the Governor said.

He said the Nigerian Dream manifests across the nation everyday in people of modest and humble beginning rising to become leaders in their own rights, adding that the opportunities Nigeria offers to her people was sufficient for all discerning, honest and hardworking citizens to become whatever they want to become.

“My mother is a nurse and my father was a journalist but the Nigerian Dream has happened in my life time and the life time of all that are seated here. It is happening here every day and the earlier we embrace it, the earlier we multiply it, the earlier we sink it down and define it and say this is what it is; thatif you work hard, if you learn, if you are honest, you can be all that you can in the land of your ancestors – that is the Nigerian Dream”, the Governor stated.

Speaking on the genesis of the book, Governor Fashola said it came about from the author, who was then studying in Singapore, sending him an e-mail with a request to be allowed to understudy the Lagos State Government as his thesis on Political Governance in Africa.

Gov. Fashola expressed gratitude to the author, Dr. John M.O. Ekundayo. The Governor also expressed joy that the book brought out the candid opinion of some people in some parts of the State who still felt neglected promising that in the remaining months before the end of his tenure the Government would endeavour to reach such areas with development.