Lagos State is more than its business district — its rural and semi-urban communities have been waiting too long for the same attention paid to the Island and the mainland core. This pillar directs rural development funding and low-cost housing schemes at the LGAs that have historically been last in line, engineered with the same rigour and follow-through Engr. Doherty has applied to every business he has built from the ground up over forty years — not a promise made once and forgotten.
Engr. Doherty has named market women among his direct governance priorities. This pillar backs increased funding for women's empowerment programmes and sporting opportunity across Lagos State, recognising that a market woman's economic independence and a young girl's access to sport are both investments in the same future — a Lagos where opportunity isn't rationed by gender.
A passionate advocate for youth development throughout his career — including grassroots skill-acquisition and empowerment programmes he has personally supported for years — Engr. Doherty is committed to expanding funding for youth empowerment and sports across every LGA, giving young Lagosians structured paths into skills, enterprise and athletic achievement rather than leaving talent idle.
Provision of a quality and affordable healthcare network is a named pillar of this agenda — health access engineered to reach the market trader, the artisan and the pensioner as reliably as it reaches the Island, not a system that works only for those who can already afford to skip the queue.
In Engr. Doherty's own words: “How I wish to give free standard education to our children in our Eko federal come 2015 so that people will come here tomorrow and look for Lawyers, Doctors, Engineers, Bankers, Captains of industries etc and not otherwise.” That commitment carries forward into this agenda — free, quality and affordable education paired with a welfare commission for the teachers and non-teaching staff who deliver it, because a classroom is only as strong as the people running it.
Engr. Doherty has put it plainly: “How I wish to construct a road for commercial vehicles, cyclists and private vehicles on some federal roads and state roads... to reduce the traffic and promote the state economy.” An efficient, well-engineered transport network — built for commercial drivers and everyday commuters alike — is central to unlocking the economic activity traffic congestion currently strangles.
Lagos's traditional rulers and its civil servants are both named among Engr. Doherty's direct governance priorities. This pillar commits to a well-structured traditional institution framework alongside genuine civil service welfare reform — recognising that a state runs on the people who administer it day to day, not only on the politicians who visit it.
No business, school or hospital in Lagos runs on promises — they run on power. This pillar commits to consistent power projects and broad infrastructural development across the state, applying the same engineering discipline Engr. Doherty brought to building the DAIN Group of Companies from a single grain-processing operation into a diversified enterprise over forty years.
This pillar commits to revisiting and revitalising Lagos State's taxation law, alongside ensuring the payment of the approved Federal Government minimum wage — fairness for the state's revenue base and fairness for the people who earn a living within it, addressed together rather than one without the other.
Engr. Doherty has spent thirty years creating jobs in the private sector — from the mobile grain-processing network he built farm to farm across the South-West, to the manufacturing, construction, logistics and event-management arms of the DAIN Group today. This pillar scales that same instinct statewide: an employment creation and state industrialisation support programme designed by someone who has actually built enterprises and hired people to run them, not just studied the idea of it. This is just the beginning.
“Lagos is always on my mind. I want to help Lagosians and the people in general by giving them smiles and happiness.”
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