The Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari against relying on the unverified claims of achievements of Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works & Housing “because the 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, Fashola remains a misfit as a lawyer to occupy such combined ministries of engineering specialities.

According to the party in a statement issued on Sunday in Lagos, signed by Taofik Gani, “This advice comes 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 gotten 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 but infuriating because Fashola should rather admit failure and feel sober having mismanaged the Power Ministry as power supply has dropped from over 6000 megawatts when he took over to less than 2000 megawatts.

“We sincerely advise 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 8 years government of mediocrity. Fashola ended up making Lagos State the biggest debtor with local and foreign debts of well over N1 trillion.”

•Photo shows Fashola.

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