{"id":37564,"date":"2015-04-08T05:15:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T04:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=37564"},"modified":"2015-04-08T05:15:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T04:15:49","slug":"lagos-apc-apologizes-to-igbo-appeals-for-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/lagos-apc-apologizes-to-igbo-appeals-for-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos APC Apologizes To Igbo: Appeals For Calm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The All Progressives Congress Lagos has asked Ndigbo in Lagos to ignore<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and forget the unfortunate statement credited to the Oba of Lagos, Oba<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rilwan Akiolu when he addressed some Igbo Chiefs in Lagos over the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">weekend.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In a statement signed by Mr. Joe Igbokwe, the State Publicity Secretary of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">the Party apologized most sincerely to Ndigbo to bury the hatchet in the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">interest of peace and harmony, considering the long standing relationship<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">that has existed between Igbo and Yoruba since the inception of Nigeria\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cNo human being is above mistakes. People can make mistakes and correct it<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">thereafter. The Oba of Lagos can make a mistake and we believe that the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">statement credited to him was a mistake. If to err is human, we plead with<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ndigbo to let the sleeping dog lie\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cAfter the March 28 2015 Presidential elections Ndigbo in Lagos have been<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">trooping into the Lagos APC fold in droves. They have pledged to throw<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">their full weight behind the APC guber candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The support was total and unprecedented. You can therefore imagine how we<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">feel as a party when this incident came just few days to the governorship<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">elections\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos is not a card carrying member of APC. He is<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">not a leader in APC. He does not speak for APC. He did not speak for<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">governor Fashola of Lagos State. He did not speak for our National leader<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He did not speak for the incoming governor, Mr<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Akinwunmi Ambode. His Royal Highness is at liberty to speak for himself<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">and he spoke for himself only. Lagos APC appeals to Ndigbo not to take the<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">statement as the position of the party in Lagos\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe passionately appeal to Ndigbo not to carry the statement credited to<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Oba Akiolu too far so as not to put a knife on things that have held us<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">together for more than 50years now. If out of annoyance you throw your cap<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">away a mad man will take it and use it forever\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cA lot is at stake in Lagos. Lagos has been fair to Ndigbo and Ndigbo have<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">reciprocated by taking Lagos as their home no matter whose ox is gored.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagos APC believes that Ndigbo will not burn the bridges because of this<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">minor setback\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagos APC has worked so hard with other Nigerians to enthrone a government<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">at the centre and we cannot afford to throw all these gains away by<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">allowing the mistakes of the last weekend to stand on our way to link<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lagos effectively with the centre. Our own Oba Rilwan Akiolu\u2019s slip of<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">tongue should not be used as an excuse by Ndigbo to reverse these huge<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">gains. Ndigbo should forgive and forget by voting APC en mass this coming<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Saturday\u201d<\/span><\/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 All Progressives Congress Lagos has asked Ndigbo in Lagos to ignoreand forget the unfortunate statement credited to the Oba of Lagos, ObaRilwan Akiolu when he addressed some Igbo Chiefs&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":19824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37564","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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