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Babatunde Fashola, minister for power, works and housing, says the south-west has more to gain by re-electing President Muhammadu Buhari.

Fashola said this on Tuesday during the inauguration of 5000 foot soldiers for the campaign of Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Lagos.

He said the re-election of Buhari would guarantee that power would come to the south-west in 2023.

NAN reports that the minister said the promise of the secretary to the federal government (SGF) slot by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was not enough for the south-west to lose the positions it is currently occupying.

“As a south-west indigene, I will vote for the Buhari/Osinbajo ticket, because my people stand to gain more from it,” Fashola said.

“The south-west is presently occupying the position of the vice president. We have three sitting ministers and many different federal appointments from the present administration which we cannot afford to lose.”

He explained that although the APC promised change in 2015, the party did not promise to do it in four years.

He said: “The APC has done more in three years than 16 years of PDP administration, yet they say president Buhari is too slow.

“President Buhari is taking Nigeria to the next level. We are going to the next level.

“The 2019 presidential election is a choice between going back and moving forward to the next level and also a choice of whom Nigerians can trust with their money.”