.….accuses TAN of propagating false claims
The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has described the transformation agenda of President Jonathan as an exercise in futility and does not deserve another term.
Fashola said this while speaking at the opening ceremony of Women In Business Conference in Lagos on Monday.
According to Mr Fashola, he remained convinced that the country under the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has not experienced any form of transformation as portrayed by TAN’s numerous adverts across the nation.
The governor accused the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) for “plotting to ensure that Jonathan returns to power through propagation of false claims.”
The Lagos State governor noted that the nation’s power supply was worsening while unemployment was on the rise on a daily basis.
He said Nigeria shouldn’t be depending on importation despite being a major oil exporter. He described this situation has unfortunate.
Fashola said when the price of oil stood at a $100 per barrel for almost a decade, the PDP-led Federal Government had not been able to transform the country.
He therefore wondered how the same government could do better in 2015 since oil price had dropped to $80 per barrel.
“Where the North East is under siege and the economy has continued to nosedive, the transformation ambassadors have continued to distort the true information that all is well. All it takes to cripple our economy by those countries from where we buy oil is to say they won’t sell to us any longer.
“We have seen a good example where the country was denied access from buying arms. This is the situation we are in as regards importation of oil. In 2010 alone, we spent N2.5trillion importing fuel into this country. Now, we have less money to import. If we can’t pay for our oil importation, we all know its implication for the country. In not too distant a future, the fuel queues will return.
Fashola stressed further; “The government has yet to give us power as promised, they have yet to give us fuel, we have yet to see the standard highways they promised. There are so many Nigerians living without electricity.
“Within their transformation period, thousands of people in the North East have been killed, thousands turned refugee in their father land, over 200 girls are still in captivity of insurgents and the North East is still under siege. With all these, the transformation ambassadors are telling Nigerians that all is well.”
The Jonathan administration in 2011 promised to generate 16,000 megawatts by 2013, including harnessing coal opportunity, wind and solar to generate 13,000 megawatts electricity, this had yet to become a reality, Fashola opined.
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