Fashola’s project tour, another attempt to deceive Lagosians—Lagos PDP

Opeyemi Adesina

The Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described the Governor Fashola led ACN government in the State as now terminally diseased, bound to worsen and will be laid to rest in the Propagandists graveside of history.

The Party is making this description as a reaction to the ongoing manipulated project tour of the Governor aimed at justifying the very bogus claim of 89% budget success in 2012.

The Party asserts that the so-called project tour is a charade and the budget success claim only exposes the desperation of the ACN Government to force mediocrity into lagos Government.

"We are indeed not comfortable to allow the ACN Government in the State continue to run a propagandists Government. Especially because lagos is fast moving away from 'Centre of Excellence' to 'Centre of Mediocrity'. Imagine the ongoing charade being referred to as project tour and the claim that this administration attained 89% budget success in the Year 2012. Honestly, this is deceitful, fraudulent and deliberately meant to fake performance"   

The Party is particularly surprised that Governor Fashola can boldly lay claim to such bogus success when its Government has continuously plunged the state into local and Foreign debts of well over 900Billion Naira, even when the State now realises over 40Billion naira Per Month as Internally Generated Revenue and has collected over 16Thrillion Naira from the Federal Government, since 1999.

Notwithstanding these monies, the few major projects being flaunted on the tour are not directly linked to the said budget but actually contributions of Private investors, Philanthropists, Concessionaires, Federal Government and Community Associations.

Such projects include the: Lekki-Epe Expressway, BRT, Light Rail, rehabilitation of Oshodi-Oke road, Modern Markets.

"We wonder how the Government of ACN in Lagos State can shamelessly award performance success to itself when it has actually failed to address its promises to lagosians such as: A 4th Mainland Bridge, rehabilitation of Isheri-OkeAfa road, provision of qualitative & affordable Education, affordable housing, payment of 18000 Naira Minimum Wage, Provision of employment, Portable Water, Qualitative and affordable health Services, affordable Markets etc"

The Party Opines that these prevalent deficiencies in the State indeed manifest in the number of Pure Water factories, Private Hospitals, Area Boys, Street Traders, Traffic jams all over the State.

The Party has thus rated any budget year of Lagos State under former Governor Bola Tinubu and Governor Fashola as not exceeding 45% and Challenges the Government to a live debate.

"We have our Data and thus convinced that under Governor Tinubu and now Governor Fashola, lagos has never attained over 45% success in its budget implementation. We challenge them to a project tour, where representatives of NUJ, Labour, Students Leadership, Opposition Parties, NGOs, Civil Society Organisations, Engineers will partake.

As a matter of fact, we shall acknowledge and do a public apology if our claim is wrong"