The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola SAN, on Monday blamed the Peoples Democratic Party for the sufferings of Nigerians saying that “they looted our collective destiny, prospects, jobs and so on''.
The Minister who stated this while inspecting the building project of the Federal Secretariat, Awka, Anambra State, also lambasted the previous government for abandoning Federal Government projects across the country.
According to him, corruption during the PDP era was monumental.
“That’s why the masses are suffering today. That’s why there are no jobs. But we (APC) are trying to bring back smiles on the faces of Nigerians,'' he said.
Fashola said the President Muhammadu Buhari government is being stretched due to the number of projects it inherited from past governments who failed to complete them as a result of corruption.
“They awarded the contract without paying contractors and when you don’t pay contractors, you create problems down the labour ladder.
“For instance, the contract for this federal secretariat was awarded in 2012 by the previous administration without making funds available for its completion. If the money meant for it was not stolen, it would have been completed before now.
“We are bringing back what was denied the people in the past to them; that’s the difference between a development administration and a corrupt regime”, the minister stated
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