Lagos State Governor, Batunde Raji Fashola has condemned the
present administration and says the president does not deserve a 2nd
term. While speaking at the opening ceremony of Women In Business Conference in
Lagos on Monday, BRF lambasted the Transformation Ambassadors Of Nigeria (TAN)
for deceiving Nigerians and the world that all was well with the country with
their false numerous television adverts.
According to him the rate of unemployment
in Nigeria is too high and it’s rather unfortunate that Nigeria a major oil
exporter is depending on importation.
“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.
“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.”
While rounding up his speech he
said the present administration had in 2011 promised to generate 16,000
megawatts by 2013, including harnessing coal opportunity, wind and solar to
generate 13,000 megawatts electricity, but nothing of such has been done till date.
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