The Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola, got
a rude shock from his principal and predecessor,
Bola Tinubu, Wednesday after he tried to make a
case for disgruntled party members.
Mr. Fashola, one of the speakers at the 4th annual
Bola Tinubu Colloquium, an event organized to
mark the former Lagos State governor's 60th
birthday; said that he had been asked by the lower
cadre members of the party to prevail on the
celebrant to dispense "justice equally" to all
members.
Mr. Tinubu refused
"If there's no partiality, you cannot be governor
yourself," he told Mr. Fashola, adding that he had
not regretted choosing him as governor.
"Ask them not to give me the task, that I'll not be
able to deliver," said Mr. Tinubu.
"What I'd done consistently in the past, why would
I want to change at 60?
"I've succeeded with that behaviour and sorry I'll
not deviate from it," he added.
Earlier, the chairman of the occasion, Emeka
Anyaoku, had called on Nigeria to return to true
federalism if it must make progress.
"I do believe that a true, rather than our current
unitarist federalism, will better promote peace,
stability, and development in Nigeria," said Mr.
Anyaoku, a former Secretary-General of the
Commonwealth.
"There can be no doubt that Nigeria was making
progress in national development in the early
years of its independence when it practiced true
federalism of four regions with more extensive
powers deployed from the centre to the regions.
"Those were the days of the significant export of
groundnuts, hides and skins, and the tin ore from
the North; of cocoa from the West; of rubber from
the Mid-West; and palm produce and coal from
the East of Nigeria," said Mr. Anyaoku.

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Abi ooooooh!
Fashola take note!

not supprise at all