{"id":141150,"date":"2022-01-28T22:57:48","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=141150"},"modified":"2022-01-28T22:57:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T21:57:48","slug":"i-didnt-say-nigerias-infrastructure-better-than-americas-fashola-recants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/i-didnt-say-nigerias-infrastructure-better-than-americas-fashola-recants\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn\u2019t say Nigeria\u2019s infrastructure better than America\u2019s \u2013 Fashola recants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Friday, denied saying that Nigeria\u2019s achievements in infrastructure surpassed that of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, in Kano State on Thursday had said, \u201cI can assure you that the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/01\/28\/buhari-has-done-more-than-united-states-in-infrastructure-fashola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC administration has achieved what even the US government is aspiring to accomplish in terms of infrastructure<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Fashola, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Communications, Hakeem Bello, on Friday, said he was misquoted.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was titled, \u2018Infrastructure Delivery: Fashola clarifies misrepresentation of his statement on Nigeria, US\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Fashola was quoted as saying, \u201cI didn\u2019t say that Nigeria\u2019s infrastructure was better than America\u2019s infrastructure because certainly anybody who knows what he is doing will know that America is a much richer nation, their infrastructure is well ahead of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I was talking about at the presentation with the All Progressives Congress, Youth Ministerial Conference was about the challenges of infrastructure and that it is universal, every country commits to infrastructure as a legitimate way to create work, to grow the economy and distribute wealth as we have seen here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the first point I was making, and that in a democracy you always need the Parliament to authorise what you spend on infrastructure and so I was making the comparison that Buhari has been able to get his Parliament to authorise his spending, and that is why we were even able to gather here (at the Special Ministerial Conversational Conference).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that the American government is struggling to get authorisation from their own parliament to start what we are already doing. 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