"Probe Fashola now" - PDP Asks Ambode

The Lagos chapter of People Democratic Party has called on Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to probe his predecessor, Babatunde Fashola.

The party said that it was not responsible for the brewing crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress in Lagos adding that it is ready to provide robust opposition to the ruling APC in the state.

This statement was made by the publicity secretary of the PDP, Taofik Gani, on Sunday, August 17.

Gani said: “As long as we notice any “misgovernance”, we will blow the whistle. We shall not relent in doing this constructive opposition. It does not matter whether it coincides with efforts of other groups or interests in the state. We shall commend when appropriate and condemn when inevitable in good faith for good governance and expected growth of Lagos State.”

He said the call for the probe of Fashola’s aministration by the Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders over how he management the resource of the state during his tenure as governor has vindicated the PDP’s persistent stance that “the Fashola administration was a fluke, The Punch.

Gani said: “Indeed, several times during his administration, we had shouted that the governor was running a propagandist government and that the state was being plunged into avoidable local and foreign debts.

“With over N27bn monthly internally generated revenue, the state does not need to borrow to carry out projects.”

The Lagos PDP scribe added that Fashola’s implemented projects would not be sustainable in the next 2o years.

“He got loans to complete such projects within eight years only to mismanage and or divert such loans. Under Fashola, the SUREP funds well over N32bn meant for the state could not reflect in any project and was not accounted for. The local and foreign debts of about N1tn is there for Lagosians to pay through over-taxation,” he queried.