OZAOEKPE:
FASHOLA IS A SAINT, BUT HE LEFT LAGOS WITH A DEBT OF OVER $400B WITH NOTHING TO SHOW FOR IT. ITS A BIG SHAME HOW WE CELEBRATE THIS CRIMINALS

Abugab:
First, governance is about continuity and you should get that OP. It saves the people's money and time.

Second, at no time did APC say there were no projects in the past administration, the monumental failure was as a result of the projects not seeing the light of the day.
People were using them to enrich themselves and I am sure you are aware of the current revelations in terms of how our money went into private pockets?

OP, Governance is about the people and not political parties. 2019 is coming and you can campaign but now it is business of bringing the goods and it will be great to support the govt because their failure affects everyone.

OLADD:


Friend, firstly, my post was not intended to campaign for any political party. Secondly, we all agree with the fact that government is a continuum and that emphasizes the rots inherited by PDP from the prolonged military rules in 1999. However, please google the many statements issued by APC as a party and individually by many of their members including Fashola before and after the last elections. They all collectively asserted and chorused the complete failure of Jonathan and PDP's 16-year rule.

OLADD:
To many discerning minds and keen watchers of Nigerian politics, unfolding events in Buhari's six-month presidency have further accentuated the pertinent need to subject our politicians to detailed scrutiny before entrusting them with machineries of government. In advanced democracies, aspiring politicians and public office seekers are subjected to strict and detailed personal pedigree assessment as a prerequisite for leadership and political appointments. However, in Nigeria's case, emphasis is mostly placed on politicians' power of eloquence, oration and ability to convince their audiences with unending promises(no matter how unrealistic and unattainable they are). This brings our minds back to the numerous aspersions cast on the PDP led Federal Govt under former President Jonathan and derogatory statements made by prominent APC stalwarts including Fashola in the rundown to 2015 elections. The former Lagos State henchman was recorded at many fora labelling Jonathan's 6-year administration as a sublime waste. For him and other APC leaders, nothing was worthy of been mentioned as a positive achievement in the last four years.
However, during Fashola's maiden ministerial briefing and 2016 roadmap, amongst his targets for 2016 fiscal year are the following;

1. Continuation of ongoing Road Constructions nationwide. No new project will be embarked upon in 2016.
2. Continuation of the previous govt Power privatisation programmes
3. Reintroduction of Toll Gates nationwide.

Now, let's have a deep reasoning and dissect above Fashola cum APC tripod targets.

a. If indeed Jonathan and PDP six-year rule was a monumental failure as Fashola and APC made us to believe, who initiated the road projects he and his party now wants to complete in 2016?
Why can't APC lunch new nationwide road network initiative other than tapping on existing framework?

b. Nigerians expect Buhari's adminstration to introduce a clearcut new policy on Power reform going by how they tagged PDP's power roadmap as a fraud. Why is Fashola towing the privatisation line of the govt they utterly rubbished? We were also given the impression that power projects were solely awarded to Jonathan's cronies and PDP financiers, why is it now a herculean task for Fashola to revoke those contracts and start on a 'clean slate'?

c. The last administration was accused of impoverishing Nigerians through white elephant projects, will the proposed introduction of Toll Fees do otherwise? Are there no other revenue generating mechanisms Fashola and APC can adopt without draining the pockets of hapless citizens?

Conclusion:

This piece was not intended to project or condemn the image of any political party but an exposition of our politicians subtle and deceitful manipulations while seeking elective and appointive offices. We all have a lot to learn as 2019 approaches.

drss:
APC will claim all GEJ's projects, and still claim PDP destroyed nigeria. Yeye dey smell.

Boscojugunu:
you are too dull. Just imagine the trash u are spewing. So u expect the current government to abandon all the ongoing projects embarked on by the last administration. E.g second Niger bridge.

obailala:
@Op
My apologies but this is a very dull way to reason. So do you expect the new government to abandon ongoing projects in a bid to start their own projects?... Have you not heard that government is a continuum?.... Can you kindly name a single road project done by the last administration which wasnt started or touched by his predecessors?
Now for all the projects scattered all over the place which was started by the previous government, what sense does it make to award thousands of projects but yet not a single one is finished?... After paying mobilisation fees, the rest of the funds are withheld/embezzled but they still come forward to the election grounds to claim they did x and y projects when in reality, all the projects are at infancy. Now the Op in his peculiar wisdom wants the new government to tow the same line by abandoning previous projects and starting new ones.

doctokwus:
[s]Most of the road projects were conceived and mainly started during the govts of Obj or Yar'Adua.
Op, I dare u to mention ONE(1) road project conceived and started by gej during his time.
In order to simplify this for u and save u from embarrassing yourself,please don't mention the Ore-Benin-Onitsha,Lagos-Ibadan,Onitsha-Owerri or the East-West roads because almost all these were started while gej was still a struggling,unknown lecturer somewhere and was still thinking of how to pay his next rent.
So pls research and mention one his govt conceived,drew up the plan from the scratch and mobilized contractors to site[/s].

Boscojugunu:
you are too dull. Just imagine the trash u are spewing. So u expect the current government to abandon all the ongoing projects embarked on by the last administration. E.g second Niger bridge.

doctokwus:
Most of the road projects were conceived and mainly started during the govts of Obj or Yar'Adua.
Op, I dare u to mention ONE(1) road project conceived and started by gej during his time.
In order to simplify this for u and save u from embarrassing yourself,please don't mention the Ore-Benin-Onitsha,Lagos-Ibadan,Onitsha-Owerri or the East-West roads because almost all these were started while gej was still a struggling,unknown lecturer somewhere and was still thinking of how to pay his next rent.
So pls research and mention one his govt conceived,drew up the plan from the scratch and mobilized contractors to site.

Rad1cal:







dolts every where. You don't continue what you thought was a waste of time and never existed cos it was all "paper achievements"

OLADD:


report back to us(Nairaland) if you can't find any. .

OLADD:
To many discerning minds and keen watchers of Nigerian politics, unfolding events in Buhari's six-month presidency have further accentuated the pertinent need to subject our politicians to detailed scrutiny before entrusting them with machineries of government. In advanced democracies, aspiring politicians and public office seekers are subjected to strict and detailed personal pedigree assessment as a prerequisite for leadership and political appointments. However, in Nigeria's case, emphasis is mostly placed on politicians' power of eloquence, oration and ability to convince their audiences with unending promises(no matter how unrealistic and unattainable they are). This brings our minds back to the numerous aspersions cast on the PDP led Federal Govt under former President Jonathan and derogatory statements made by prominent APC stalwarts including Fashola in the rundown to 2015 elections. The former Lagos State henchman was recorded at many fora labelling Jonathan's 6-year administration as a sublime waste. For him and other APC leaders, nothing was worthy of been mentioned as a positive achievement in the last four years.
However, during Fashola's maiden ministerial briefing and 2016 roadmap, amongst his targets for 2016 fiscal year are the following;

1. Continuation of ongoing Road Constructions nationwide. No new project will be embarked upon in 2016.
2. Continuation of the previous govt Power privatisation programmes
3. Reintroduction of Toll Gates nationwide.

Now, let's have a deep reasoning and dissect above Fashola cum APC tripod targets.

a. If indeed Jonathan and PDP six-year rule was a monumental failure as Fashola and APC made us to believe, who initiated the road projects he and his party now wants to complete in 2016?
Why can't APC lunch new nationwide road network initiative other than tapping on existing framework?

b. Nigerians expect Buhari's adminstration to introduce a clearcut new policy on Power reform going by how they tagged PDP's power roadmap as a fraud. Why is Fashola towing the privatisation line of the govt they utterly rubbished? We were also given the impression that power projects were solely awarded to Jonathan's cronies and PDP financiers, why is it now a herculean task for Fashola to revoke those contracts and start on a 'clean slate'?

c. The last administration was accused of impoverishing Nigerians through white elephant projects, will the proposed introduction of Toll Fees do otherwise? Are there no other revenue generating mechanisms Fashola and APC can adopt without draining the pockets of hapless citizens?

Conclusion:

This piece was not intended to project or condemn the image of any political party but an exposition of our politicians subtle and deceitful manipulations while seeking elective and appointive offices. We all have a lot to learn as 2019 approaches.

doctokwus:

I can't find any conceived, planned and contractors mobilized to site under his govt.
Pls help me with one for a start,maybe I didn't search in some areas only u has access to.

IVORY2009:


Propaganda specialist

naijanaso:
It is so unfortunate that Nigerians love scammers. Fashola was not even ashamed to mention that a lot of the roads have neared between 75% - 95% completion. The roads mentioned in his broadcast were all initiated by GEJ. The Power sector they want to continue with is also by GEJ.
They will do only 5%-25% and then want to take the glory for building roads in Nigeria. It doesn't bother me cos I never expected these bunch of deceitful and media propagandists to do any better. To all those that were shouting change I hope they are feeling the change in the air.
Good luck Naija.

TimeManager:
I wail for wailers. Wailers and reasoning are allergic to eachother. I'd rather watch a paint dry than waste time on a shambolic and inept opinion.its obvious OP was born during Gej era. Gej commissioned and re-commissioned Obj's projects. Dont be politically naive and Fix your head.
No lie only truth!

chudionu58:
What are those road projects?

OLADD:


Friend, firstly, my post was not intended to campaign for any political party. Secondly, we all agree with the fact that government is a continuum and that emphasizes the rots inherited by PDP from the prolonged military rules in 1999. However, please google the many statements issued by APC as a party and individually by many of their members including Fashola before and after the last elections. They all collectively asserted and chorused the complete failure of Jonathan and PDP's 16-year rule.

koladebrainiac:

you erred in so many ways/ governance is about continuity ... and all contract were reviewed and most with exorbitant or ridiculous money were stopped. now they will finish jonathan work. now let me ask you, upon all the amount of money that federal government voted for arms every year, how cum nigeria army are still underfunded? how cum despite the huge amount of money on electricity,nigeria government could only generate just 3000mewat? where hear of huge amount of money obj voted for power,and all that ,where are all these project?

OLADD:


Obviously my post does not suggest I am dull. Moreover, common sense dictates that you don't continue with a project you had hitherto labelled as a WASTE. Fashola and APC summed up PDP govt as a failure. Politicians and people like you need to give honour to whom its due. OK?

Ioannes:


let me try and break this down for you in simple terms maybe you will understand.

1. A project can be termed wasteful if the amount allocated to the project was hiked astronomically in the first place.

2. you can continue with such projects by forcing the contractors back on site to complete the works.

3. actually it's kinda stvpid to abandon such projects after having paid so much.

4. PDP government was a failure because 16 years after, we are still talking about providing basic infrastructures facilities like roads, constant power et al for the people.

5. PDP is a party without honour and as the revelations of gigantic stealing midwifed by Jonathan continues to assault our senses, GEJ worshippers ought to tuck their tails between their legs like a whipped dog and slink off.