Why APC won 2015 general elections, by Fashola
Minister for Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola has opened up on the joker that earned the All Progressives Congress resounding victory during the 2015 general elections.
Fashola was the keynote speaker at the maiden Lagos State University Research fair with the theme: ‘Driving national development through research and innovation.” Nonetheless, Fashola said as soon as the party was registered by the Independent National Electoral Commission, its first assignment was to carry out a research because of the masses’ disenchantment with the then ruling party.He said: “APC was formed at a period many thought the country was at the brink of collapse.“We set up different committees one of which I was a member. We then conducted opinion study for about 20,000 Nigerians nationwide.
“I remember security was top on the list, followed by corruption, education and then economic growth in that order.On the importance of research to national development, he added: “When APC was formed, many pundits described it as ‘a marriage of strange bedfellows’.
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