He was barely seven months old in office as Governor, but Bola Tinubu pursued his daily tasks with vigour. He was in a hurry to make Lagos great. Then, it happened.
On that particular day, the governor, in a convoy, was said to be returning from inspecting waste collection and security operations within the city of Lagos (some reports said it was very early in the morning). The gûnmen reportedly created hindrances on the road and as the convoy made to pass through, they suddenly opened fire.
Various reports seen by Ethnic African Stories said the Governor's security returned fire unaliving four of the assa!lants. Governor Tinubu was unhûrt.
The attæck was widely believed to be politically motivated, linked to the tênse atmosphere in Lagos politics at the time, especially as Tinubu had just taken over from Buba Marwa (the military administrator at the time who had also earlier been attæcked) and was facing resistance from entrenched political interests.
Mike Okiro, the Police commissioner in the state at that time, arrësted eight members of the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), a Yoruba nationalist group, over the incident. OPC denied the group's involvement.
However, the Governor strengthened the state, continued with his reforms that helped to raise the state's internally generated revenue from N600 million to multiples of billions of naira.
Source: Ethnic African Stories
