"five candidates to succed fashola" fashola dismisses report

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola at the weekend described as ridiculous, a newspaper report that he had drawn up a list of five candidates who could succeed him.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, the governor reacted to the report after attending the first Lagos International Table Tennis Classics at the Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere  in Lagos said emphatically that he had neither compiled a ‘short’ nor ‘long list’.
“The first thing to say is that I did not compile any list whether a short list or a long list.

“The reporter had an opportunity if indeed it was true they ever got such a story, to have clarified with us, but to have gone on in detail to say that I have compiled a list, I would like them to present that list to members of the public,” he said.
Noting that he was already considering seeking legal redress on the blatant falsehood published by the newspaper on a list of potential governorship candidates said to have been compiled by him, Governor Fashola said it amounted to a deception of the reading public to have published such a fabricated story.
“As I said, I deny such a list vehemently and I am already talking to my lawyers and it is very sad they do not show respect to the Nigerian populace,” he said.