Why I said Lagos doesn’t need toy gov like Fashola – Obanikoro

Former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has explained why he once said that Lagos State does not need a toy governor like Babatunde Fashola.

While contesting against Fashola in the Lagos State governorship election in 2007, Obanikoro had said: “Lagos does not need a toy governor.”

Obanikoro had made the remark when he decamped to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to contest, because he felt Fashola was a “puppet” of Bola Tinubu at the time.

However, in an interview on Mic On Podcast yesterday, Obanikoro said: “Fashola is my brother and we are both from Isale Eko and to me, he was never a politician.

“So I felt that after serving as a local government chairman, as a commissioner, and in the Senate, I had more political maturity, exposure, and experience to govern at that time.

“Don’t forget that was the first time he was going to come out and run for anything as far as the government is concerned, he was Chief of Staff to Oga.”