PDP Urges Fashola To Apologise To Nigerians, Resign

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has been charged by the Peoples Democratic Party to resign from office immediately.

This in reaction to the comment made by the Minister after the FEC meeting on Wednesday. The former Governor of Lagos State had claimed that roads in Nigeria are not as bad as being portrayed.

Fashola in his statement said, “The roads are not as bad as they are often portrayed. I know that this is going to be your headline, but the roads are not that bad”.

PDP in a statement through its spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan, urged Fashola to apologise to Nigerians for making such a statement.

The party described the statement by the minister as ‘unfortunate’ and a violent assault on the sensibility of over 200 million Nigerians.

The statement reads: “PDP charges the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, to resign immediately and apologize to Nigerians over his unpardonable comment that the terrible state of roads in the nation is being exaggerated.”

“The PDP describes the statement as unfortunate, especially coming from the Minister of Works, who ought to be apologetic for the decrepit state of roads across the country since the last four years he has been minister.”

“The party says the statement is a violent assault on the sensibility of over 200 million Nigerians and further demonstrates the disdain with which the Buhari administration holds our citizens who lost their lives and many more who daily undergo mental and physical torture using our dilapidated roads.”

PDP noted that the statement of the minister reflects the position of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration which has no regard for Nigerians and only thrives in propaganda and false claims to cover its failures in governance.

The opposition stated that most Nigerians knows that the major road across the country are in bad condition and has become one of the highest life-threatening experiences in our country since the last four years.

“The comment by the failed minister of works is therefore highly provocative and capable of invoking the anger of Nigerians because it shows that either he has not been going through our roads and as such not in touch with reality or he has exposed himself as falsehearted official.

“Our party is however not surprised at such comment from the minister because the Buhari administration, in which he serves, thrives only in propaganda, blame game, excuses and false performance claims because it has nothing to offer.

“The minister’s reprehensible claim is therefore a clear pointer that Nigerians should not expect any intervention on roads under the Buhari administration.

“This is the same minister who boasted that any responsible government should fix power within six months, only for the Buhari administration, with him as minister supervising power, to turn around and wrecked the gains achieved by previous administrations.

“The PDP invites Nigerians to note that such leadership failures characterized by reckless statements is always characteristic of governments that did not derive from the mandate of the people at the polls and therefore believe that it is not answerable to them.”