Babatunde Fashola

Babatunde Fashola
Fashola delivering a speech in June 2010
Minister of Works and Housing
In office
21 August 2019  29 May 2023
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari
Minister of State
  • Abubakar Aliyu
    (2019–2021)
  • Mu'azu Sambo
    (2021–2022)
  • Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub
    (2022–2023)
Preceded byHimself (as Minister of Power, Works and Housing)
Succeeded byDave Umahi (as Minister of Works)
Ahmed Musa Dangiwa (as Minister of Housing)
Minister of Power, Works and Housing
In office
11 November 2015  28 May 2019
PresidentMuhammadu Buhari
Minister of StateMustapha Baba Shehuri
Suleiman Hassan Zarma
Preceded byOsita Nebo (as Minister of Power)
Mike Onolememen (as Minister of Works)
Akon Eyakenyi (as Minister of Housing)
Succeeded bySaleh Mamman (as Minister of Power)
Himself (as Minister of Works and Housing)
13th Governor of Lagos State
In office
29 May 2007  29 May 2015
Deputy
Preceded byBola Tinubu
Succeeded byAkinwunmi Ambode
Personal details
Born
Babatunde Raji Fashola

(1963-06-28) 28 June 1963
Lagos, Nigeria
Political partyAll Progressives Congress (2013–present)
Other political
affiliations
Action Congress of Nigeria (before 2013)
SpouseAbimbola Fashola
Children2
Occupation
  • Politician
  • lawyer

Babatunde Raji Fashola CON SAN (Yoruba: Bàbátúndé Rájí Fáṣọlá (Listen); born 28 June 1963) is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the federal minister of Works and Housing of Nigeria from 2019 to 2023. He was the minister of Power, Works and Housing from 2015 to 2019. He also served two terms as governor of Lagos State from 2007 to 2015.