The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said that Nigerians have begun to enjoy the results of good governance under the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
This is just as the minister warned the opposition against downplaying the incumbent administration’s giant strides in infrastructural development.
According to the minister, successive Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led administrations should be held responsible for the alarming poverty figures recently released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Fashola said that since coming to power in 2015, the Buhari administration has been designing programmes to undo many wrongs done to the country and the citizenry by the PDP.
The minister spoke with reporters in Abuja on Thursday after an ember months Stakeholders meeting on the state of Federal roads.
He blamed the PDP government for diverting monies meant for infrastructural development, including the Petroleum Technology Development Fund.
Fashola said that this laid the foundation for the poverty many Nigerians are presently grappling with.
The minister said, “NNPC is now investing N651 billion in road construction but that was the money some people used to fund electioneering campaigns and provide cars for friends in the past.
“That was the cause of poverty; if they took away money that would have been used to address issues in the country, that is the cause of poverty.
“Buhari has put back the money where it belongs. These are things that are heading in the right direction.
“When there is a problem, it takes time to design a solution and when you apply the solution it takes time to get the final results. But ours is past the design stage because we are already seeing the results.”
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