Fashola speaks out on corruption allegations

Having kept mum over several allegations levelled againstbhim since leaving office, the immediate-past Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has eventually broken his silence.

Fashola has come under scrutiny in recent times, including allegations that he fathered a set of twins outside wedlock, left Lagos state in huge debts and awarded a N78 million
contract to upgrade a website registered in his name. Fashola who compared his accusers with pigs who get “happy” when they get you “dirty,” in a statement issued on Thursday night, denied all the rumours, quoting a proverb: “When you wrestle with a pig, the pig gets happy and you
get dirty.” On the issue of extra marital paternity, he said he only adopted three children who were orphaned by the Dana crash of 2012, stating that he went through due process.

He denied any involvement in the national assembly
leadership elections, and said all the loans he took as Lagos
governor went through due process and they are being
repaid.
Fashola however, disclosed that he also met debts when he
became governor in 2007 after the eight-year tenure of his
predecessor Asiwaju Bola Tinubu.