A Lagos-based group, Visioners for New Lagos, on Sunday, vowed to resist
any attempt to impose a former Accountant-General of the state, Mr. Akinwumi
Ambode as the next governor of the state.
Coordinator of the group, Mr.Bambo Akin-Johnson, also cautioned a
national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, against imposing
a candidate on the party and by extension the people of Lagos State.
He said his group remained sympathetic to the All Progressives Congress,
but would not sit back and watch while internal democracy was being threatened.
Akin-Johnson said members of the group were ready to “fight to the
finish” if the former state governor and his supporters insisted on imposing
Ambode.
He claimed that the APC leader had “confided in some of his close
confidants” about the choice of the aspirant. The group stressed that
Lagos, did not belong to any individual, as such, the group was prepared to
prove this in 2015.
The coordinator noted that in spite of the ideals of the APC as a mega
party, the former governor had refused to drop the habit of imposition of
candidates.
Akin-Johnson said, “There is no doubt about the fact that Tinubu has
settled for Mr. Akin Ambode as his governorship candidate in 2015. Why no one
is opposed to the person of Ambode aspiring to the office of the governor, we
take exception to his imposition. If anything, he must be a product of a
credible process in the emerging new Lagos.
“The sentiment of playing the religion and zonal card as if the two
factors have consciously been part of the Lagos political system will be
counter-productive. In fact, Tinubu’s enemies cannot wait to see him fail since
he has chosen to arrogate to himself the power of life and death as if there
was no Lagos before him.
“The idea of zoning is well understood. Taking it to the East is a
clever way of eliminating some of the strong candidates perceived as standing
in the ways of their ploy, by which time the other contestants would be shoved
aside for the preferred Ambode without recourse to what other stakeholders,
particularly party members, think.”
Attempts to get an official reaction from Tinubu were unsuccessful as
calls to the telephone of his Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Sunday Dare, were
neither picked nor a text message sent to his phone replied
f lagosians. And the electorate are not blind can't they read the hand writing on the wall that. The likes of Tinubu don't believe in Democracy but specializes in imposition of candidates,that has been the borrowed culture of the defunct ACN. If u think there will be difference in selection of party representative in APC then u. Must be ready for a shocker. APC are not democrats they are group of tyrants who wants nothing but Aso rock. Am not a fan of the PDP, but from past experience PDP are more Democratic compare to the APC that is been own and manage by Asiwaju Private Company.
ReplyDeleteTinubu owns all most every every remarkable damm thing in Lagos. And he will do every thing possible to keep on expanding his empire, by Imposition of his family members in every key position in lagos, Lagosians should wake up. R
Check the qualification of the supposed candidate and religion political balance, it all showed that Tinubu is a cleaver leader. I mean a chartered accountant at 24 is not a joke. Please Lagos need leader that will be in charge not like JEG but like Fash. a SAN
DeleteIt is high time to let him know that a tree can not make a forest and that Lagos does not belong to him:- Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
ReplyDeleteWake up lagosians its time to send asiwaju awon waree to Osun state ! The juju he planted in yaba and staduim and other noticeable jundtion with smybol of his cap and eyeglasses has started spoiling ! We shall resist any form of imposinition stupid man
ReplyDeleteThe group itself is sponsored by an aspirant,so readers should not be fooled. All their bravado is to sway public opinion, they can't take on Asiwaju.Any way,for the records;Tinubu might have been imposing the candidates on his party,the truth remains that Lagosians vote for them and reject paper weight opposition.Not only that, he has been proven to make good choices.If the opposition want to give him a good run they better do their homework well,and not bank on this koro of a guy; he's no match.Tinubu remains a man of the people,bcos he stands on their side.
ReplyDeleteThe group itself is sponsored by an aspirant,so readers should not be fooled. All their bravado is to sway public opinion, they can't take on Asiwaju.Any way,for the records;Tinubu might have been imposing the candidates on his party,the truth remains that Lagosians vote for them and reject paper weight opposition.Not only that, he has been proven to make good choices.If the opposition want to give him a good run they better do their homework well,and not bank on this koro of a guy; he's no match.Tinubu remains a man of the people,bcos he stands on their side.
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