{"id":32061,"date":"2014-10-12T19:26:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T18:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=32061"},"modified":"2014-10-12T19:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T18:26:02","slug":"lagos-apc-lagos-pdp-stop-bedtime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/lagos-apc-lagos-pdp-stop-bedtime-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos APC to Lagos PDP: Stop this Bedtime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC has described<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the allegation that Governor Fashola led government of Lagos State is a<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">bad model of democratic governance as baseless and the biggest joke of the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">21st Century.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PDP Lagos in a recent statement has accused Governor Fashola led<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Government of not showing signs that it is willing to conduct local<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">government election as the tenure for the present dispensation ends in<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">October 29 2014.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNow contrary to this bedtime stories of Lagos PDP, we want to make it<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">clears that Lagos State government is prepared to conduct LGA elections<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">as it has been doing in the past when INEC concludes its delineation<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">exercise in some states in the country\u201d.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cINEC is creating new wards and new polling units in some states in the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">country including Lagos and until it finalises that very important<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">exercise, it may not be feasible to conduct LGA elections because we need<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">to know the new wards and the new polling units before going to the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">polls\u201d.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201c If the new Voters Cards and the new Voters Register are yet to be seen,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">please tell us how you can conduct elections. Once these structures are<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">put in place LASIEC will move into action\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cSome PDP controlled states have not conducted local government elections<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">in the last eight years but we are not PDP. We do the right thing, we<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">follow the rules and we get results. However, if these issues are not<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">resolved before the October deadline, Lagos State Government may appoint<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">caretaker committees to replace the outgoing LGA Chairmen.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOn the allegation that Lagos State government officials are provoking PDP<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">members by removing and destroying PDP signs, please let it be known that<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagos State has a Signage Agency called LAASA and if Lagos PDP wants its<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">services they know what to do. Advert Agencies in Lagos know that it is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">not business as usual as LAASA has cleared the mess in Lagos and set up<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">new standards for Outdoor Advertising\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cLagos State government has not provoked anybody or any group but<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">sometimes decisions are taken in the overall interest of 25 million<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagosians, rather it is Lagos PDP that has been provoking Lagos APC. We<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">saw the provocation when a junior Minister in the Ministry of Defence<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Senator Obanikoro went with armed soldiers to Ilubirin Housing Estate to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">harass contractors building homes for Lagosians. We see this provocation<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">when one of our leader in the island Alhaji Azeez Asake was brutally<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">murdered by PDP thugs after their rallies at TBS. We see these<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">provocations on a daily basis at old toll gate Lagos where Lagos PDP is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">training thugs for 2015 elections in the name of SURE-P. PDP is on the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">wrong side of history in Nigeria, and the same history will remain our<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">witness&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lagos State Chapter of the All Progressive Congress, APC has describedthe allegation that Governor Fashola led government of Lagos State is abad model of democratic governance as baseless and&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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