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Fashola’s Quite 52nd Birthday Bash

Last Sunday was the day the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) turned 52 . It was his first birthday outside office as governor.
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Last Sunday was the day the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) turned 52 . It was his first birthday outside office as governor. Having really never been a loud person when it comes to celebrations, a thanksgiving prayer and his sustained private engagement with the less privileged was what charaterised the special day of the ex-governor.

However, being freshly out of office, the occasion offered an opportunity to conduct a rapid overview of the momentous Fashola years in the service of the good people of Lagos by many of his followers and several fans. He served Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu loyally as Chief of Staff.

He was an underdog as an Action Congress governorship candidate in Lagos State in 2007, but Fashola started proving skeptics wrong almost as soon as he had been sworn in on May 29, 2007 as he started building on the foundation laid by Tinubu . Today, the rest is history as Fashola transformed Lagos State before leaving it for Akinwunmi Amobode, the new governor to trudge on.

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