Babatunde Fashola who is the Nigerian Minister of Works and Housing, has finally come out to condemned certain actions and comments which have been made ahead of the 2023 elections.
The former Lagos State governor had also advised all Nigerian citizens to make sure that they stop exaggerating Nigeria’s problems and shaming the country.
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Fashola spoke Thursday in Lagos in an address at TheNiche Annual Lecture themed “2023 Elections and the Future of Nigeria’s Democracy”.
“We can win elections without exaggerating our problems. We can do so by offering credible service and well thought out solutions.
“We can win elections without disrobing our country before the global community”, NAN quoted him saying.
Fashola had also noted that the focus should be mostly be on Nigeria’s possibilities and not the nation’s fault lines. He had also insisted that the elections must be based on ideas and choices that bring out the best of the people and country.
Fashola decried the rate of heckling, online trolling, hate, in-person verbal abuse, and reckless views about ethnicity and religion.
The minister urged Nigerians to understand that choices have consequences as the nation moved to another electoral cycle in 2023.
In another report, Babatunde Fashola, has claimed that the Buhari administration has been able to provide validation to all the debts it has borrowed by constructing various infrastructures across the country.
Fashola made this known while speaking at the closing ceremony of the 28th National Council of Works meeting held in Kano on Friday.
He said the ongoing projects across the country had justified the debts, especially when compared with what the previous administrations had done.
‘Our first budget in 2016 was over N250bn, up from the N18 billion we met in 2015. That was an increase of over a thousand percent, even though the price of crude oil was dropping, we did not raise taxes.’
The Minister explained that the Federal Government had been able to deliver more than 1,800 kilometers of roads across the six geo-political zones so far, stressing that the Buhari-led Administration was determined to complete all the ongoing projects before the expiration of its tenure in May next year.