The Lagos Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against relying on unverified claims of achievements by Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.
In a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani, the party said Fashola, who was governor of Lagos State from 2007 to 2015 promotes mediocrity, and.
It said Fashola is a misfit as a lawyer to occupy such combined ministries of engineering specialities.
According to the PDP “this patriotic advice is on the heels of the minister celebrating a proposed injection of a mere 30 megawatts of power from the Gurara Hydro Power Plant in Kaduna, when indeed the minister has collected monumental funding well enough to have injected over 500 megawatts into the national grid”
The PDP spokesman said Fashola should rather admit failure and feel sober having mismanaged the power ministry to now cause a drop of supply from over 6000 megawatts when he took over to now less than 2000 megawatts.
“We sincerely advise president Buhari to be very wary of the deceptive skills of Fashola who will usually hype and celebrate even mediocrity.
“Fashola has penchant for misrepresenting facts of his achievements in government and would always rationalise obvious inadequacies.
As governor of Lagos State, he enjoyed unprecedented revenues and donations, yet left many services untouched or unfinished.
“He however deliberately funded his pro-Fashola media and commentators so much that pseudo and exaggerated achievements were ascribed to him.
“He employed this model to promote his eight years government of mediocrity.
“Fashola ended up making Lagos State be the biggest debtor with local and foreign debts well over N1trillion naira.
“Without adopting the government of Akinwunmi Ambode, at least we can now see signs of government presence in some erstwhile abandoned areas under Fashola,” the party said.
