Now the race for the APC presidential nomination looks more open with several candidates from the South-West near the top of the list: Tinubu Fayemi Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...
In August Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola disclosed that contractors are owed billions of naira announcing plans to reintroduce road tolls discontinued in 2004 to raise revenue...
Babatunde Fashola Minister of Works and Housing and former governor of Lagos State: Promoted as chief of a super-ministry of power works and housing Fashola under-whelmed in President Buhari's first term...
They include: Atiku Bagudu the Kebbi State governor who has been working closely with Kayode Fayemi Chairman of the Governor's Forum and Governor of Ekiti State; Rauf Aregbesola Minister of Interior; Babatunde Fashola Minister for Works and Housing; and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo...
Also on Osinbajo's committee is Emefiele Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed the NNPC's Kyari Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Timipre Sylva and four other key ministers: Chris Ngige (labour); Niyi Adebayo (trade and industry); Sadiya Farouq (humanitarian affairs); and Babatunde Fashola (works and housing)...
Stripping former Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola of power leaving him with works and housing is a further sign of his diminished influence in government and perhaps also his waning prospects for the succession in 2023...
Former governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola stays in the cabinet but will lose his 'super minister' status...
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He insists that Buhari has the north locked down and is riding high in the south-west thanks to talented figures such as Power Minister Babatunde Fashola and Ekiti governor Kayode Fayemi (AC Vol 59 No 11 Cracks spread in APC alliance)...
It is allegedly backed by Muiz Banire the APC's national legal advisor and the erstwhile Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola: they are both former Tinubu protégés...
With a penchant for bulldozing ‘illegal structures' Ambode is seen as set on destroying the legacy of his predecessor Babatunde Fashola a persuasive business-savvy politician who is generally seen as one of the state's best ever governors...
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He is now under far less pressure than his fellow economics chiefs Emmanuel Kachikwu Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation managing director Maikanti Baru and Power Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola (AC Vol 58 No 11 A date with destiny & Vol 58 No 21 When oil chiefs fall out)...
