Nigeria’s Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on Thursday, condemned certain actions and comments which has been attributed to Nigerians and politicians ahead of the 2023 elections.
The former Lagos State governor appealed to citizens of the country to stop exaggerating Nigeria’s problems while putting the country up for ridicule.
Fashola made this assertion yesterday in Lagos in an address at TheNiche Annual Lecture themed ‘2023 Elections and the Future of Nigeria’s Democracy’.
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‘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’, he was quoted him saying.
Fashola noted that the focus should mostly be on Nigeria’s possibilities, not the nation’s fault lines.
He went on to insist 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.
