The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has described as
uninformed, hollow and laughable the statement b 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 they face 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 advises 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 reasons. 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.
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 assum0ption 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 threading 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 reasons 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
majority of Lagosians knows that Lagos PDP is gone for good in Lagos.”