Politics '3 Reasons Why Fashola’s Failed as Governor of Lagos State'

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Nigeria - The Lagos Chapter of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, has blasted the state’s former governor Babatunde Fashola, for running a failed tenure.



The party mentioned among other things three reasons why the ex-governor's tenure was a failure.

• Godfatherism was allowed to Prosper

The party said 'godfatherism' under the former governor was rampant and was a reason he 'failed'. It also admonished new governor Akinwumi Ambode to get close to God and jettison ‘godfatherism’ in order to make any appreciable success.

"By upholding this tenet, Mr. Ambode will implement policies for the people and not continue in the manner that (suggests) the state economy is in the hands of a godfather."

• Worsening Debt Profile

“With monthly internally generated revenue of at least N27bn, no governor should fail in Lagos state. But former Governor Fashola left office leaving the state with the highest local and international debt profile in the federation," it said.

• A number of Abandoned and Incompleted Projects and others.

The party said the outgoing governor left a lot of projects uncompleted and complained about the poor situation of the state.

“Such include, lack of affordable low-cost housing, balkanised civil service with no minimum wage, unresolved Lagos State University crisis, economic and human rights violations. Others are shortage of road networks, hostile business environment, inability to bring down cost of living in the state, poor primary and secondary education standard, to mention a few,” the statement added.

However, Fashola’s Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Hakeem Bello in a swift reaction said the party shouldn’t be taken seriously.

“It’s ironic that the PDP, a party that failed woefully at the national level could issue such a statement.” He said.

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