Probe Fashola's 8 years in office and don't consider making him a minister yet, Bode George tells Buhari

Chief Olabode George

The Former National Vice Chairman of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode Ibiyinka George, has said that the immediate past governor of Lagos, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, and his predecessor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should be probed.

While reacting to allegations making rounds in the media, that the former governor of Lagos, Raji Fashola spent N78 million to upgrade his personal website while in office, Bode George said “Using N78 million tax payers money to build a web site is reckless misappropriation." 

In a statement, personally signed by him, Bode claimed that the ex-governor had shown no remorse over the allegations surrounding his days as governor.

“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." he said.

He therefore called for a comprehensive investigation and requested that Fashola be exempted from any Ministerial appointment by the present Buhari administration.

“In a more justiciable 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." Bode said.

“In the end, there is no way to divorce Fashola from Bola Tinubu." he added "They are both linked in unutterable complicity. If Fashola stands today in tarnished allegations, Tinubu, his godfather , cannot possibly distance himself in innocent escapism. No sir. One is the creation of the other.

"If Fashola now riots in the mud, we must look through the depths to understand the instigating and complicitous factor. Whenever Fashola is cooling his feet at the interrogation centre, Tinubu should not be far behind.” he added.