PDP Chieftain Bode George has asked President Buhari to probe the
administrations of former Lagos state governors, Bola Tinubu and
Babatunde Fashola. In a statement released yesterday August 19th, Bode
George said Buhari cannot claim to be fighting corruption and not
investigate the circumstances surrounding the controversial N78 million
tundefashola.com website.
"We are living in a very interesting time. There is an air of
repugnancy everywhere most specifically in my state where the immoral
stench and the dark odium of Mr. Babatunde Fashola’s administration is
daily being unearthed.
What is most disgusting and annoying in all these is the arrogant and
the befuddled attempt of Mr. Fashola to justify the apparent reckless
misappropriation of Lagos state taxpayers’ money to set up a personal
web site. Fashola shows no remorse, no semblance of regret, no guilty
nudging of conscience. Instead, he still attempts to ride a high horse,
puffing and stomping in feigned seraphic innocence. We are not fooled.
We knew all along that the emperor had no clothes. Using N78m of
taxpayers’ money to build a website is reckless misappropriation. The
phony over N29bn used to build a mere kilometre long link bridge is
outrageous venality.
“The spurious N1.5bn allegedly spent on phantom pedestrian bridges is
another con game. And there are so many of these screaming illegalities
observable in the record of our poster boy of yesterday!. In a more just
society, Mr. Fashola should be facing a comprehensive investigation
rather than being considered for any appointment at all. President
Buhari should use the Fashola case as an acid test of sparing no one
with any intimation of public malfeasance. Rather than engaging in a
smug chest beating of innocence, Mr. Fashola should first remove himself
from any consideration of public appointment and openly call for a
judicial probe of his eight years in office. Nothing else will bring out
the true picture. Lagos State is now the biggest debtor in the
federation with over a trillion naira in bad debts. It may take at least
40 years before Fashola’s indebtedness can be defrayed! What a malady!.
In the end there is no way to divorce Fashola from Bola Tinubu. They
are both linked in unutterable complicity. If Fashola stands today in
tarnished allegations, Tinubu, his godfather, cannot possibly distance
himself in innocent escapism. If Fashola now rots in the mud, we must
look through the depths to understand the instigating and factor.
Whenever Fashola is cooling his feet at the interrogation centre, Tinubu
should not be far behind.””he said
What is most disgusting and annoying in all these is the arrogant and
the befuddled attempt of Mr. Fashola to justify the apparent reckless
misappropriation of Lagos state taxpayers’ money to set up a personal
web site. Fashola shows no remorse, no semblance of regret, no guilty
nudging of conscience. Instead, he still attempts to ride a high horse,
puffing and stomping in feigned seraphic innocence. We are not fooled.”
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