A pro-democracy organisation, Center for Dignity in governance (CDG), has said that the performance of Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), in office has passed dignity test.
A statement from the group’s President, Comrade Razaq Olokoba said his organization has subjected Fashola’s performance to integrity test and he has passed, disclosing that, “the exercise is an annual event.”
The group therefore advised President Muhammadu Buhari not to tamper with is winning team because nobody dismantles a winning team.
The group’s position was a direct reaction to the call on the President to sack the Minister along with others by the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL).
At a press conference in Lagos on Saturday, the CACOL boss, Mr. Debo Adeniran called on President Buhari to sack Fashola along with other three Ministers and the Head of Service (HoS), alleging incompetence and non-performance.
The CDG in the statement backed President Buhari in giving Fashola the three ministries to handle reasoning that, “the step is not to empower an individual but rather to give him more responsibilities to safe cost as an example from Britain.”
The statement read: “The call for Fashola’s sack at a time the nation is expressing gratitude on the improvement of power supply, a direct result of Fashola’s hard work is misplaced. Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), is now more active, according to the judgement of Nigerians in favour of Fashola.
“The glorious achievement on the brand new road networks across the country, praised by everybody including the opposition, 2nd Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway are good examples of Fahola’s achievements in office.”
While reminding that, Fashola has revived National Housing Programme that was abandoned 30 years ago with mortgage scheme that would guarantee affordable shelter for Nigerians, the group alleged that the CACOL leadership was trying to plot Buhari against his cabinet, suspecting that, “it is a paid agent of the fifth columnist and a member of Pull Down Buhari Movement (PDBM).”
On the economy front, the statement asserted that, “the Minister in charge Mrs Kemi Adeosun has stabilised the exchange rate and has injected a life line tonic in form of policy in to the economy,” stating that, “our economy is back on its feet and moving towards total recovery.”
The CDG therefore urged the President to ignore detractors like the CACOL leaders and their likes whose trademarks are destabilization agenda just as it warned Debo Adeniran and his team to desist from acting as salaried agents and commissioned personnel of the Anti-people and anti-good governance agents.
