As preparations gear up for the 2023 general elections, the Minister of works and Housing who has been identified as Babatunde Fashola has openly urged eligible Nigerians to vote for candidates based on their track records and not out of sentiments.
Babatunde Fashola had made this statement at the sixth edition of the annual ‘BRF GABFEST’ in Lagos while also adding that emotions should not be the primary drive for making choices of quality leaders in Nigeria.
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“I urge you to vote by holding debates and town halls where you put questions to the candidates to test their abilities.
“I urge you to vote by looking at what these candidates have done before, this is like asking for the referees during an interview or talking to a previous employer. This is how to recruit an employee. Not by anger,” he said.
Fashola told Nigerians to organise town hall meetings, conferences where they will access candidates’ manifestos and what their political parties profess.
According to him, debates and town hall meetings provide perhaps the best way to put their (candidates) feet to fire.
In another report, Mr Babatunde Fashola had previously warned a management committee which was set up by the Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) against trying to overrule and usurp the powers of its regulatory body.
The Management Committee of ARCON is a transition committee created by law to undertake ARCON’s routine management upon expiration of tenure of its statutory council and pending constitution of a new board.
Fashola, in a statement on Monday by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Mr Bashir Alkali was reacting to newspaper publication in which the management committee was planning major programmes and an evaluation assessment for architects without contacting ARCON, its regulatory body.
The Minister noted that the management committee was acting beyond its powers by not collaborating with its regulatory body to form a quorum in taking major decisions as spelt out by the laws establishing it.