We Said We Would Change Nigeria But Not In Four Years – Fashola

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, says ‘change’ as promised by the All Progressives Congress (APC) before the 2015 elections, is a gradual process and the governing party did not really promise to fix Nigeria in a single term of four years.

Fashola was in Lagos on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, for the inauguration of 5,000 foot soldiers tasked with mobilising votes for the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports Fashola as saying that even though the APC promised change in 2014, the party did not promise to effect it in four years.

Fashola listed the achievements of the present administration, saying that the choice for Nigerians is between going forward to the next level with the present administration and going backward.

Fashola listed the achievements of the present administration, saying that the choice for Nigerians is between going forward to the next level with the present administration and going backward.

He said “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?”

“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.”