Fashola is elitist, doesn't believe in low cost housing says PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos state has explained why it thinks that  the Minister

of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola,  may likely under-perform.

Speaking during an interview with journalists the party's publicity

secretary, Taofik Gani said that the 8-year tenure of Fashola rendered

quite a number of Lagosians homeless.
“He will continue with his 'elitist style of leadership' even in poor

areas in the country,” he said.
It said that the minister had said in 2013 there was nothing like low

cost housing as there is no low-cost cement or low-cost labour,

thereby demolishing slums and built expensive estates in its place at

the detriment of the poor.
The PDP publicity secretary said Fashola's performance could be

compared to that the former governor Lateef Jakande whom he said built

over 20,000 housing units in four years.
“Can Fashola point to any low- cost housing scheme he did in his eight

years as governor? The houses he built under the Lagos Home Owners

Scheme cost about N15m on average. Can the Eko Atlantic, which cost

hundreds of millions of naira to buy,” he said.
“There is nothing super about Fashola. He was only compensated by

President Muhammadu Buhari because Lagos contributed greatly to

Buhari's campaign.”
He said that Fashola also failed in the area of works during his

tenure as governor saying that those works that were credited to him

were done by private companies and concessionaires.

He stressed that some of the projects implemented in Victoria Island

was carried out by banks as part of Corporate Social Responsibility

Programmes.
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