See the Main Reason Buhari Picked Fashola and Others

Further reasons have emerged as to why the president chose performers like Fashola to occupy key ministries in his government. 

President Muhammadu Buhari

 

A Former National Publicity Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, Rotimi Fashakin has revealed that Babatunde Fashola’s performance as governor of Lagos State, made him a choice pick in President Buhari's cabinet.

 

Fashakin explained that those who know the President know him as a stickler for performers. He recalled that during Buhari’s first stint at the helm of affairs, he picked a Professor of Virology, Tam David West as Minister of Petroleum who went on to perform excellently as the Petroleum Minister. It is also very clear that the crop of minsters he has chosen are people who can perform.

 

Fashakin said: “The President has always been an admirer of Fashola not for anything but for the fact that he was a performer in office.

“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.”