Date Published: 12/06/10

“You Dare Not!”, Lagos ACN Warns PDP and EFCC.

Bola Tinubu

The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has condemned the alleged plan to eliminate the leader of the party and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as a way of ensuring the PDP remains politically relevant, not only in the South West but the entire country. The party says that should the PDP go ahead in its devilish plan, it will bring untold calamity on itself and its members and bring about the collapse of the present democracy.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party warned the PDP that it should not test the wills of Nigerians who are fed up with the PDP rouge leadership of the country in twelve years of unmitigated woes. It said that any attempt to visit the Bola Ige option on Asiwaju Tinubu will not only be met with untold disaster but will certainly prove a waterloo for the PDP and its members.

“We are shocked that the PDP still has no appetite for free and fair competition but is still deeply immersed in a do-or-die politics of elimination, blackmail, electoral fraud and intrigues. It warned President Jonathan that heeding PDP’s desire to adopt dirty and underhand practices to get political advantages will boomerang on his head as Nigerians yearn for a free and fair political atmosphere that is free from intimidation and manipulation.

“We are aware that the PDP is scared of its prospects in 2011 and this was brought about by a combination of bad and terrible governance, corruption and political manipulation which they have promoted in Nigeria since 1999. That Nigerians are fed up with the party is very obvious in the public expression of disenchantment with the party and its policies and if the party now thinks that it can achieve any political gains through electoral fraud, political assassinations, intimidation, blackmail and dirty means, then it must have a rethink for Nigerians are ready to resist the evil ways of the PDP.

“Lagos ACN is aware that the PDP is getting more desperate especially with the return of some of the states the PDP stole in the South West but we want to make them know that they have no option than play by the rules in the upcoming election. We know that the PDP has remained a nest of killers and we know the circumstances that led to the brutal assassination of Chief Bola Ige at a time he wanted to opt out of the Obasanjo government to solidify the then AD. Our doubts were removed with the handling of the murder of Bola Ige and the way most of the alleged masterminds of the assassination were rewarded with political offices. We will not allow such situation again.

“We want to warn the EFCC not to allow itself to be used by the PDP for its dirty political wishes of the PDP. We want to let the EFCC know that if it is desirous of catching the serial looters that have amongst themselves, shared over 95 per cent of Nigeria’s oil wealth in the past twelve years, it need not look far than the PDP and it will have a bagful, including present occupiers of state offices. We want to let them know that it will only precipitate its doom if it allows itself to be made an integral part of the PDP desperate political machine. It will only occasion its ultimate death if it still believes Nigerians will watch as it becomes a PDP attack dog as 2011 approaches.

“Lagos ACN wants to assure the Asiwaju that Nigerians are solidly behind his present quest to rescue the country from the deadly grips of the PDP and we want him to remain resolute and firm in his crusade, so long as they still conform to the tenets of democracy and rule of law. We want to assure him that no weapon fashioned against him shall prosper because he is at home with the long suffering people of Nigeria who are craving redemption from PDP’s evil hands."