The
Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has described as
uninformed, hollow and laughable the statement by the Lagos State
chapter of the PDP that Governor Akinwumi Ambode should declare his
assets or be regarded as a pretender governor.
The party said that Lagos PDP is lost and needs help to survive the demeaning fate it faces in Lagos and the country today.
In
a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of
the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party dismissed Lagos PDP as a group of ill
informed jokers who are being dealt a big blow by their present
shambolic state.
It advised Lagos PDP to take a period
to school itself about constitutional provisions regarding asset
declaration before it comes out just to make some unserious noise to
source relevance it does not have.
“PDP Lagos continues
to make us believe it exists in Lagos where it has been dealt serious
electoral blows year in year out. Lagos PDP is an unserious group that
periodically amuses itself with such hollow vituperations as asking
Governor Ambode to declare his assets or be regarded as “pretender
governor’-whatever that means. This can only be the fruits of
uncoordinated thoughts of serial losers that have no inkling on how to
handle its latest round of electoral defeat.”
“When
what calls itself Lagos PDP are not engaged in unending fight with
themselves as a way of expressing their electoral frustration, they are
busy making disoriented demands that are both hollow in articulation and
empty in reason. It is not surprising that Lagos PDP is coming out the
way they did after the thorough APC victory in both Lagos and the center
as well as majority of states in Nigeria.
“Lagos PDP
in making the demand of Governor Ambode to declare his assets must have
woken up from a long slumber that robs them both of the constitutional
provision on assets declaration and the fact that as incoming Governor,
the governor declared his assets with the Code of Conduct Bureau, in
keeping with the constitutional requirements for his office,” the party
said.
APC further stated that “it is certain that Lagos
PDP in keeping with its well known penchant for mediocrity and as a
purveyor of kindergarten gossip, is unaware of what the law says on
asset declaration which states that on assumption of office and exit
from office, the Governor or any other political office holder is bound
by law to declare his assets to the Code of Conduct Bureau at both
points. It is the duty of CCB to verify your claims at the point of exit
of office against what you declared at the point of entry.
“This,
the Governor did and has plunged deep into the demanding task of
governing Lagos while the PDP roves aimlessly in want of what to say to
keep afloat. We would wish that Lagos PDP quit treading in an
unproductive circle of self foolery by their resort to outlandish and
wild demands that further diminish it among Lagosians.
“We
want to educate the speculators in PDP that governance is not a tea
party and that running a political party is not the same as periodically
making inchoate and tendentious demands that lack reason and
conviction. Governor Ambode is full of energy, full of ideas , robust ,
capable, as strong as the rock of Gibraltar and totally committed in
dealing with the complex problems of a mega city like Lagos for which he
is elected. Distracting him through such baseless and laughable display
of crass ignorance and naivety, as Lagos PDP, is an exercise in
futility for the majority of Lagosians know that Lagos PDP is gone for
good in Lagos.”
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