Details As Fashola Hijacks Buhari’s Re-Election Campaign In Lagos

Charles Oyelesi

Emerging details have it that Minister for Works, Power, and Housing Babatunde Fashola has “hijacked” the re-election campaign of President Muhammadu Buhari in Lagos state.

Societynow.ng gathered Fashola’s made the move with his political leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu still publicly postured as handling Buhari’s re-election campaign not only in Lagos but the entire southwest region.

“But the reality is that Fashola is quietly but rapidly getting things done for the President with a team he is putting together as the campaign progresses” societynow.ng learned.

Societynow.ng gathered that “of course there is a nucleus team already in charge of strategy for the minister holding multiple portfolios but the larger structure is being put together as the campaign progresses”.

The investigation conducted by societynow.ng revealed that Fashola made a deep inroad into the re-election campaign of Buhari in Lagos by kick-starting the project without been “mobilized”.

Fashola rolled out campaign posters for the President and went on to engage awareness creators on his own bill at a time Tinubu was negotiating the finer details of how to get “people to work for the President’s re-election”.

Societynow.ng gathered that the move by Fashola greatly impressed President Buhari and his inner caucus and a of the book engagement on how to get better mileage initiated with the multiple portfolios holding minister.

Societynow.ng gathered that for ‘’political reason”, the President and his men are still publicly posturing Tinubu as the man in charge of the Buhari’s re-election campaign in Lagos, and south-west in general.

“But the reality is that Fashola is the one really getting things done for the President regarding the re-election campaign for now” a source insisted.

Societynow.ng gathered there is a growing talk on the implication of this emerging scenario for Tinubu post-election – should Buhari retain his seat as President of Nigeria.