According to Rotimi Fashakin, Babatunde Fashola is a performer- and that’s one of the reason why President Muhammadu Buhari chose him as a minister.
The second reason is that Fashola gives himself to the job at hand and is only after the good of the people, he added.
The Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, compared Fashola with David West, whom Buhari chose as petroleum minister during his first stint as president.
He said David West’s tenure as Petroleum Minister marked one of the highest points in the then military administration’s handling of oil and allied revenues
“The President has always been an admirer of Fashola not for anything but for the fact that he was a performer in office,” he explained according to Punch.“If you understand Muhammadu Buhari, he is a leader who wants to empower as many performers as possible. If you remember, it was under him that a professor of virology Prof. Tam David West was appointed Minister of Petroleum.
“President Buhari is always looking for performers who he wants to empower.
“Secondly, Fashola is not one who is looking for higher political office or trying to use his office for such purposes. There are many out there who are looking to use their positions for higher office, you cannot say that about Fashola.
“He (Fashola) is one who can give himself to the job. There are certain decisions he took in Lagos that core politicians felt were not in the political interest of his party, he was more concerned about the greater good of the people of Lagos and was not moved by political considerations.”
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