Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has asked
Nigerians to be patient with the ruling party, saying the party indeed
promised change in 2014 when it was campaigning but that it never
promised to effect the changes within four years.Fashola said this at
the inauguration of President Buhari’s 2019 campaign in Ikeja, Lagos
State on Tuesday November 20th.“In 2014, we said we would change Nigeria
but we did not say we will do it in four years. This election therefore
is a choice between going forward to the next level or backward because
the work has already begun.Since I became a minister, the president has
never interfered in what I do. He has never lobbied me for contract and
I can assure you that it is like that with other ministers.The oil
revenue the former government took advantage of, what did they use it
for?” he askedSpeaking further, Fashola took a swipe at the main
opposition party, PDP. According to him, the opposition would not have
lost the election in 2015 if they had performed very well.“We have
watched what happened in 16 years of nothing to show. Some people are
trying to rewrite history now. You don’t sack a good employee. If they
are living in delusion and say it was good governance, why did they lose
the job? In 2017, the budget on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was cut
from N30 billion to N10 billion. You know who was presiding
(then).“Buhari has inaugurated an infrastructure development fund to
ensure that Lagos-Ibadan, Second Niger Bridge and Abuja to Kano Road
would never suffer funding problem again. Just yesterday, the two
contractors on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway got a total of N15 billion to
continue the work. The same thing is true of the Ikorodu-Sagamu Road.
That road, for 16 years, was nothing to write about.”The post We promised change but not in four years'' - Fashola says.We promised change but not in four years'' - Fashola says
Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has asked
Nigerians to be patient with the ruling party, saying the party indeed
promised change in 2014 when it was campaigning but that it never
promised to effect the changes within four years.Fashola said this at
the inauguration of President Buhari’s 2019 campaign in Ikeja, Lagos
State on Tuesday November 20th.“In 2014, we said we would change Nigeria
but we did not say we will do it in four years. This election therefore
is a choice between going forward to the next level or backward because
the work has already begun.Since I became a minister, the president has
never interfered in what I do. He has never lobbied me for contract and
I can assure you that it is like that with other ministers.The oil
revenue the former government took advantage of, what did they use it
for?” he askedSpeaking further, Fashola took a swipe at the main
opposition party, PDP. According to him, the opposition would not have
lost the election in 2015 if they had performed very well.“We have
watched what happened in 16 years of nothing to show. Some people are
trying to rewrite history now. You don’t sack a good employee. If they
are living in delusion and say it was good governance, why did they lose
the job? In 2017, the budget on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway was cut
from N30 billion to N10 billion. You know who was presiding
(then).“Buhari has inaugurated an infrastructure development fund to
ensure that Lagos-Ibadan, Second Niger Bridge and Abuja to Kano Road
would never suffer funding problem again. Just yesterday, the two
contractors on the Lagos Ibadan Expressway got a total of N15 billion to
continue the work. The same thing is true of the Ikorodu-Sagamu Road.
That road, for 16 years, was nothing to write about.”The post We promised change but not in four years'' - Fashola says.
