Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), Tuesday said the Federal Government was apparently complicit in the mismanagement of N2 trillion fuel subsidy, which represented almost half of the 2011 national budget.

He faulted the good governance tour by the Minister for Information and National Orientation, Mr. Labaran Maku, describing the tour designed to inspect the federal projects across all states as baseless and ill-conceived.

He also described the criticism of political opponents on the visit of former United States President Bill Clinton as unfair and uncalled-for, noting that the People Democratic Party (PDP) had demonstrated a lot of amateur knowledge of the Clinton Global Foundation.

He openly expressed the standpoints yesterday while presenting his administration’s 2100-day report to the stakeholders in the state at the Lagos TV complex at Agidingbi, Ikeja noting that the good governance tour was purely ill-conceived because there “are no projects to inspect” in many parts of the country.

At the forum, the governor condemned the Federal Government over how N2 trillion of the country’s national budget of about N4 trillion in 2011 ended up being enmeshed in the most monumental fraud of fuel subsidy, which he said the country “has never recorded.”

He explained that over 50 percent of the country’s budget “enmeshed in a fraud and yet there are no answers. It is understandable that our success will embarrass their party, the PDP.

“We have already started the implementation of the 2013 budget while their party now shows how dysfunctional the government they manage has become because the passage of the 2013 budget for our country has become a public squabble while the development of our nation is held back in their amateurish grip.

“I have heard them say also that my inspection of projects to assess progress, resolve challenges and ensure their completion is a waste of resources. The fact is that they cannot point to a 100-kilometre that connect two states that their party in the centre has completed in 14 years.”

Fashola said the state government under his leadership “has in less than 20 months completed the Okota-link bridge that has improved connectivity and eased the transportation between not less than five local governments area.

“In three years, we completed the Lekki Link Bridge, West Africa’s first cable stayed bridge. In their desperation to appear busy, they have embarked on an ill-conceived good governance tour because there are no projects to inspect.

“The question to ask is whether the people of Nigeria need a tour to know that they are well-governed. We do not need a good governance tour in Lagos before citizens know that their lives are improving.

“Regrettably, our performance shows the inefficiency of our political opponents in the way that our national economy has been mismanaged by their party, they have the temerity to accuse us of fraudulently reporting performance,” he said.

Gbawe: I love the new politically combative Fashola. His talk here, even if correct, is a political statement of intent. I am now convinced a top 2015 APC political role has been pencilled in for Fashola going by how the Lagos governor has upped the ante as an open critic of the FG lately. We all saw Ribadu doing precisely the same thing in 2010-2011

If there was a criticism I had of Fashola, it was his hesitancy to fully define himself as a politician. Now he is doing so. Very important to perform but also important,if you have top-level ambition, to be visibly charismatic, for good or bad, in Nigerian politics . All GEJ's gra-gra will come to nought because he will be the last accidental President Nigeria ever has. The old boys are running out of steam and their machinations , since 1999, that made it possible for their unprepared, uncharismatic and dour stooges to lead Nigeria can no longer endure in this day and age.

Things have changed and the leaders of the future will be opinionated and resolute men like Fashola, Amaechi, Ribadu, Aliyu,Okorocha, Oshiomhole, Aregbesola, Fayemi et al. Whether folks like these guys or not, I personally identify them as the next generation of Nigerian leaders because we are entering an age where Nigeria, forced to do so by evolution, will conform to what obtains elsewhere i.e those who plan to lead, plus have the ability to do so, get to lead.

The days of promoting mediocre embodiments of establishment docility (Yar Adua , GEJ, David Mark et al) into top offices will be over soon. I have to thank GEJ for unwittingly hastening the extinction of his own kind in the top tier of Nigerian politics. It is all for the best because ,either way, we need opinionated and resolute characters leading Nigeria and not gradualists who do not stand for anything at all.

Gbawe: I love the new politically combative Fashola. His talk here, even if correct, is a political statement of intent. I am now convinced a top 2015 APC political role has been pencilled in for Fashola going by how the Lagos governor has upped the ante as an open critic of the FG lately. We all saw Ribadu doing precisely the same thing in 2010-2011

If there was a criticism I had of Fashola, it was his hesitancy to fully define himself as a politician. Now he is doing so. Very important to perform but also important,if you have top-level ambition, to be visibly charismatic, for good or bad, in Nigerian politics . All GEJ's gra-gra will come to nought because he will be the last accidental President Nigeria ever has. The old boys are running out of steam and their machinations , since 1999, that made it possible for their unprepared, uncharismatic and dour stooges to lead Nigeria can no longer endure in this day and age.

skyfall:

Yea I agree with you. I like this political side of Fashola I'm seeing. It's a sign of good things to come in the near future.

HNosegbe: It's surprising how none of the collaborators in government, who fraudulently approved the payment of "subsidy" for petroleum products not delivered have been brought to book. Not even a single dismissal.

Why are there no answers?

Gbawe:

My brother, exciting times for Nigeria. We all have to understand that our latest democratic chapter began in 1999. OBJ was the first beneficiary. He was a mediocre President in my opinion and selected to protect the like of IBB with more atrocities to their name than Michael Jackson had hit singles.

Gbawe: I love the new politically combative Fashola. His talk here, even if correct, is a political statement of intent. I am now convinced a top 2015 APC political role has been pencilled in for Fashola going by how the Lagos governor has upped the ante as an open critic of the FG lately. We all saw Ribadu doing precisely the same thing in 2010-2011

If there was a criticism I had of Fashola, it was his hesitancy to fully define himself as a politician. Now he is doing so. Very important to perform but also important,if you have top-level ambition, to be visibly charismatic, for good or bad, in Nigerian politics . All GEJ's gra-gra will come to nought because he will be the last accidental President Nigeria ever has. The old boys are running out of steam and their machinations , since 1999, that made it possible for their unprepared, uncharismatic and dour stooges to lead Nigeria can no longer endure in this day and age.

Things have changed and the leaders of the future will be opinionated and resolute men like Fashola, Amaechi, Ribadu, Aliyu,Okorocha, Oshiomhole, Aregbesola, Fayemi et al. Whether folks like these guys or not, I personally identify them as the next generation of Nigerian leaders because we are entering an age where Nigeria, forced to do so by evolution, will conform to what obtains elsewhere i.e those who plan to lead, plus have the ability to do so, get to lead.

The days of promoting mediocre embodiments of establishment docility (Yar Adua , GEJ, David Mark et al) into top offices will be over soon. I have to thank GEJ for unwittingly hastening the extinction of his own kind in the top tier of Nigerian politics. It is all for the best because ,either way, we need opinionated and resolute characters leading Nigeria and not gradualists who do not stand for anything at all.

Gbawe: I love the new politically combative Fashola. His talk here, even if correct, is a political statement of intent. I am now convinced a top 2015 APC political role has been pencilled in for Fashola going by how the Lagos governor has upped the ante as an open critic of the FG lately. We all saw Ribadu doing precisely the same thing in 2010-2011

If there was a criticism I had of Fashola, it was his hesitancy to fully define himself as a politician. Now he is doing so. Very important to perform but also important,if you have top-level ambition, to be visibly charismatic, for good or bad, in Nigerian politics . All GEJ's gra-gra will come to nought because he will be the last accidental President Nigeria ever has. The old boys are running out of steam and their machinations , since 1999, that made it possible for their unprepared, uncharismatic and dour stooges to lead Nigeria can no longer endure in this day and age.

Things have changed and the leaders of the future will be opinionated and resolute men like Fashola, Amaechi, Ribadu, Aliyu,Okorocha, Oshiomhole, Aregbesola, Fayemi et al. Whether folks like these guys or not, I personally identify them as the next generation of Nigerian leaders because we are entering an age where Nigeria, forced to do so by evolution, will conform to what obtains elsewhere i.e those who plan to lead, plus have the ability to do so, get to lead.

The days of promoting mediocre embodiments of establishment docility (Yar Adua , GEJ, David Mark et al) into top offices will be over soon. I have to thank GEJ for unwittingly hastening the extinction of his own kind in the top tier of Nigerian politics. It is all for the best because ,either way, we need opinionated and resolute characters leading Nigeria and not gradualists who do not stand for anything at all.

Akanbi_edu:

Yes bro. I am enjoying this new Fashola. Nigeria is approaching a make or mar situation, there is no longer room for self-preservation especially for those that hope to lead the nation one day.

#Oju awo la wo fii gb'obe#