The Lagos State chapter of the Peoples
Democratic Party has lauded what it termed the outstanding performance
of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of the All Progressives Congress in the
state.
The spokesman for the opposition PDP
chapter, Taofik Gani, said in a statement on Monday, that Ambode had
taken government’s presence to many areas in the state allegedly
abandoned for eight years by his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola.
The PDP advised President Muhammadu
Buhari to be wary of Fashola, who, it said, had a penchant for making
unverifiable claims of achievements.
The opposition party also expressed
reservation over Buhari’s decision to give three ministerial portfolios
relating to engineering to Fashola, who is a lawyer.
The PDP berated Fashola for celebrating a
proposed injection of 30 megawatts into the national grid, when,
according to the PDP, the minister had been provided with resources
enough to inject over 500 megawatts into it.
Gani said instead of celebrating,
Fashola should have been sober for allegedly mismanaging the country’s
power generation from “6000MW when he took over to now less than
2000MW.”
He said, “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 a 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 he 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 the biggest debtor with local and foreign debts well over N1trn.”
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