Why I have been quiet about Tinubu’s presidential ambition – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, says he has been quiet on Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s presidential aspiration, because he is “minding my business”.
Fashola said this when he appeared on Channels television programme, Politics Today.
The interviewer had probed Fashola on his relationship with Tinubu and his role in his push to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.
“Our relationship is good,” Fashola stated, before adding he had spoken with Tinubu “about some matters just before Eid”.
On whether he is involved in Tinubu’s presidential aspiration, Fashola affirmed he is. “I’m as involved as possible. I have been involved all through. I have played my role but people can decide whether it is quiet or not”.
On his quietness about his support for Tinubu, he said “I have been quiet because I have been minding my business. But I have played my roles all through and I don’t need to be in a public space to make my intervention or offer my advice and suggestions.
“But if at any point in time it becomes necessary for me to do so, I will do so.”
Fashola was Tinubu’s chief of staff when the latter was governor of Lagos state between 1999 and 2007. Tinubu would later pick Fashola over his other loyalists as his successor. The choice didn’t go down with some of Tinubu’s loyalists, but the then governor stood his ground. Be that as it may, Tinubu and Fashola’s relationship later became frosty.
