EPISODE 183 - APC IS LIKE A FRIGHTENED ANIMAL WITH FUNSHO DOHERTY
Episode 183 — "APC Is Like a Frightened Animal" | Funso Doherty on State of the Nation
This week on State of the Nation, Atlanta Discuss sits down with Funso Doherty, chartered accountant, former pensions chief executive, and the NDC's candidate for governor of Lagos State, for a frank conversation about power, accountability, and the fight for Nigeria's commercial capital.
Doherty doesn't mince words. Reacting to the wave of recent court rulings touching opposition parties — from the moves against the ADC to the fresh judgment on the NDC's own registration — he argues that a confident, well-performing government would welcome competition, not litigate against it. "The APC," he tells us, "is behaving like a frightened animal" — and he explains exactly what he believes that fear reveals about the road to 2027.
But this isn't only a critique. We press him on the harder question: what would he actually do differently as Governor? Doherty lays out his thinking on the issues Lagosians feel every day:
Security — his case for community-level policing done with proper safeguards, and how a Lagos force should work in practice
Transportation & traffic — moving beyond showpiece projects to the daily gridlock that costs the city time and money
Housing & flooding — drainage, planning and resilience in a coastal megacity that floods year after year
The state's finances — where an accountant's eye would cut waste and what he'd protect
Finally, we get to the politics that could decide everything: with the anti-APC vote split across the NDC, ADC, Labour Party and PDP, Doherty makes the case for why a coalition may still emerge to unseat the ruling party in Lagos — and what it would take to make it real.
A revealing, sharply argued hour on whether two decades of one-party dominance in Lagos can finally be challenged.
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