PDP to Buhari: Watch out for Fashola’s antics

The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against relying on the unverified claims of achievements of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola.
The PDP said its position is premised on the fact that Fashola, a former Governor of Lagos State, has the notorious style and practice of promoting mediocrity, propaganda and inappropriate speculation.
In the opinion of the Lagos State chapter of the PDP in a statement signed by Taofik Gani, Fashola remains 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, when indeed the minister has collected monumental funding well enough to have injected over 500 megawatts into the National grid.”
Speaking further, the Lagos State PDP described the attempt by Fashola to celebrate a mere 30 megawatts as laughable and infuriating because Fashola should rather admit failure and feel sober having mismanaged the Ministry of Power by causing a drop of supply from over 6000 megawatts when he took over to now less than 2000 megawatts.
The party added: “We sincerely advice President Buhari to be very weary 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 N1 trillion.
“Without adopting the government of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, at least we can now see signs of government presence in some erstwhile abandoned areas under Fashola.”