Politics
“Read Between The Lines!” Insiders Insist As Akin Ambode’s Profile As Gov Soars With Project Pictures & Tunde Fashola’s Image Further Slumps As Photo Of Sleeping On Duty Minister In Face Of Power Problems Circulate!
“Read between the lines” a deep insider who should know insists.
And others maintain the same posture.
This answer is in response to probes around raging developments.
Babatunde Fashola, the former poster boy of his party and current Minister for Power is neck deep in an image sliding crisis.
And nothing tells the story better than the leak of the picture of the named Super Minister sleeping on duty in the face of contending national power problems.
The leak comes at a time the Minister in charge of three portfolios is doused in vilification of denial of comments made in the past.
As chieftain of then opposition party, had asserted any serious administration in charge of the federal government would find solution to problems of power within 6months on assumption of office.
Now a member of the ruling party and directly incharge of the ministry in charge of power, Fashola and his team are yet to have proper grasp of challenges at stake one year on.
And the Minister has now out rightly come out to say he never made a statement that he would solve problems of power within 6months.
A move with has earned him untold derision fuelled with the leak of ”a sleeping fashola” while on official tour.
The current image crisis enveloping him as drastically eroded perception of a super administrator that turned Lagos around and made him poster boy of his party.
”Fashola is rapidly being dressed in the robe of just another politician, just another minister grappling with doing something as his tenure wind down in the public square” an observer noted.
And disappearing as this stature becomes visible are his goodwill with the public and political clout and influence in and out of the corridor of power societynowng.com.
”Fashola’s claim to fame and leverage points are perceived extraordinary performances when he was Governor of Lagos state, and that is what is being taking away from him with his current image crisis that revolves around competence…and backed with graphic image of sleeping on duty” a source analysed.
Ironically, while all this is on, his successor Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s image is soaring like never before as executes and initiates this and that contractors.
After a shaky start, Ambode has become the emerging face of good governance at the state level.
”It’s safe to say he has virtually become what Fashola was within a year – the poster boy of his party” a source pointed out.
The week Fashola got burned in the public square with denials of comment and leaked photo, Gov Ambode was on front pages and lips of many for commissioning projects that touch the heart.
Even President Muhammodu Buhari’s last minute pull out and sending Vice President Yemi Osinbanjo as representative didn’t take away point’s from the coverage.
Ambode’s efficient media team transformed the lapse into major victory.
Vice President Osinbajo as representative of the President gave glowing commendation on the projects and Ambode’s media team milked it to great advantage.
Headline reports on the event featured great commendations by the President for Gov Ambode on the commissioned projects.
Even Governor Ibikunle Amosun widely reputed to be extraordinarily close to the President and got him to personally commissioned projects in Ogun state did not enjoy a quarter of the level Govenor Ambode’s media team milked out of what was considered a slight.
Incidentally, though he pulled out of his trip to Lagos based on ”travel schedule”, President Buhari was pictured ”hosting” Governor Amosun in Abuja while Vice President Osinbajo represents him in Lagos.
Societynowng.com gathered though from the same political family the difference between Governor Ambode and Minister Fashola lays in their loyalties to the source of their rise to power- and the support they receive in turn.
Sources confirmed based on the strength of his loyalty Governor Ambode currently enjoys the backing and workings of the structure that transformed Fashola the darling of all in the face of all odds back then.
As a Minister, Fashola is said to be devoid of this backing because of moves to be a man of his own.
He is said to have defied the wishes and overcome passionate opposition his mentor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to become a Minister.
And with that lost the influence of the strategy of perception and positioning that transformed him ”a man to be adored”
”That is not taking away from the intelligence of Fashola or Ambode, but one this apparent in the emerging scenerios involving the duo…it is obvious one has gained the backing another has lost” a source stated.
What is however unconfirmed at present, after speaking to multiple sources, is whether Fashola’s slumping image crisis is a predetermined event or coincidental occurence.
Digs by societynowng.com concerning the circulating image slumping photograph of a sleeping on duty Minister for power, Babatunde Raji Fashola.
The former poster boy of his party experience further down in public perception with the picture that hit town just days after he issued a denial
on the leaping rise in profile of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode against the background of the drastic slump in the image of.


