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Town hall meetings, not campaign for 2023 – Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the Town Hall Meeting series being organised by his ministry is not a campaign strategy for 2023 elections as being insinuated in certain quarters.
The Minister of Information and Culture, said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the 21st edition of the town hall meeting focusing on the achievements of the Federal Government in Infrastructure Development.
The event featured presentations by Ministers of Finance, Budget and National Planning Hajia Zainab Ahmed, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and Minister of State for Power, Jeddy Agba.
Responding to a question on whether the town hall meeting was because the 2023 elections were approaching and a strategy to campaign for the ruling All Progressives Congress, the minister said the motive behind it was different.
“This is the 21st Town Hall Meeting under the present administration since 2016 when we kick-started the first one in Lagos.
“Nobody should accuse us that it is only now that the election is approaching that we are holding the programme.
“The whole idea of the town hall meeting is to afford people the platform to hear the scorecards of the administration and at the same time exchange ideas.
“It is also a platform to showcase what the administration has done because more often than not what we hear is the negative aspect of governance,
“That is why I am so glad with the approach of the ministers in their presentations by giving testimonies of citizens who have been impacted by the provisions of several infrastructure projects from power, bridges, roads,’’ he said.
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