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Ambode's administration said it inherited a large foreign debt burden — cited by some accounts as over $2.1 billion — from the Fashola and earlier administrations, a claim the PDP asked Fashola to publicly confirm or debunk.

The dispute was never conclusively resolved: Ambode maintained he took on no new foreign credit, while independent figures showed both external and domestic debt still grew substantially during his own term.

Lagos entered Ambode's term with a substantial infrastructure gap relative to its population and economic growth.

The administration invested heavily in roads and urban infrastructure, but Ambode's own 2018 disclosure that $50 billion more was needed over the following five years indicates the gap was only partially addressed.