“Ridiculous” Fashola Berates Sam Iwuajoku For Linking Him To Executive Jet, Naira Marley Concert Mess

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing has berated Sam Iwuajoku, the Chief Executive Officer of Executive Jets Services for linking him to the Naira Marley Concert Mess.

A statement released by the Office of the Minister for Works and Housing and signed by Akeem Bello, the Special Adviser to the Minister on communication stated ” is therefore ridiculous for Dr Iwuajoku to attempt to link the Hon. Minister with any noncompliant flight.”

Iwuajoku, in an apology letter to the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika over his airline”s sneaking of Singer Naira Marley to Abuja for a music concert claimed he thought the Fashola Babatunde he saw on the manifest was that of the Minister of Works, hence his approval of the flight.

” I didn’t know they are a bunch of useless people,” Iwuajoku wrote in his letter of apology to the Aviation Minister.

Minister Fashola has, however, reacted to the mentioning of his name in the sordid affair by the CEO of Executive Jets Services labeling attempt to involve him as “ridiculous” in the statement signed by Bello.

The full statement issued by the office of the Minister of Works reads..

Works and Housing Minister, Fashola, has not Left Abuja Since March 22

The attention of the Office of the Honourable Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has been drawn to a letter signed by the Chairman/CEO of Executive Jets Services Limited, Dr Sam Iwuajoku concerning a flight it operated to Abuja last weekend.

For purposes of clarity and in order to set the records straight, the Hon. Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, has not travelled out of Abuja since March 22, 2020, when he returned there after an inspection tour of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway construction work and a visit to Lagos, before the lockdown.

The decision of the Hon. Minister not to travel was taken in strict compliance with the Federal Government’s ban on inter-state travels as part of efforts to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is therefore ridiculous for Dr Iwuajoku to attempt to link the Hon. Minister with any noncompliant flight.


HAKEEM BELLO
Special Adviser,
Communications
to the Hon. Minister
16th June, 2020