Jonathan’s Government Has Failed - Babatunde Fashola

Fashola also accused the pro-Jonathan group, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria of “plotting to ensure that Jonathan returns to power through propagation of false claims.”

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is undeserving of a second term because his so-called “transformation agenda” is a failure.

Fashola also accused the pro-Jonathan group, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) of “plotting to ensure that Jonathan returns to power through propagation of false claims.”

The governor made his opinion known while speaking at the opening ceremony of the Women In Business (WIMBIZ) Conference in Lagos on Monday, November 3.

He said:

“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.”

Fashola had previously criticized the president for attempting to claim credit for the country’s victory over the Ebola disease while also stating that Nigeria is worse under Jonathan’s government.