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NOT JUST A SLIP OF TONGUE PDP HAS REALLY BROUGHT SHAME TO NIGERIA

NOT JUST A SLIP OF TONGUE, PDP HAS REALLY BROUGHT SHAME TO NIGERIA 

PRESS STATEMENT
 
 
 
The unravelling of the depraved Peoples Democratic Party reached extreme absurdity yesterday when its National Chairman, Dr Iyorchia Ayu while campaigning in Kano, declared that the party brought shame to Nigeria. Ayu’s verdict on his own party should not be seen as a mere slip of tongue. 
 
It was truly an articulation of the inner mind of the former academic and senate president, a self-admission of the egregious failing of the party when it was in charge of our country for 16 years.
 
Ayu’s viral statement that “PDP has brought us shame and we will not retain them in power”, concurs with the general verdict that the party failed the country and its people and should never be given a chance to return to power.
 
One of the recent reminders of the failure of the umbrella party was the Ajaokuta Steel Complex. The party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as head of the Obasanjo era privatisation programme, granted Global Steel a concession in 2004 to take over the company.
 
Another PDP government cancelled the concession when it found out that it was a mess. Global Steel took Nigerian government to court and demanded $7 billion compensation, even though it failed to fulfil the terms of the concession by making Ajaokuta a reality.
 
The case lingered for 12 years until the APC  administration of President Muhammadu Buhari stepped in. Global Steel agreed to end its legal battle and walk away with $496 million of Nigeria’s money.
 
As the Minister of Information revealed recently, the Buhari government, which has been clearing many messes left by the successive PDP administration, made a bulk payment of $250 million and agreed to pay the balance in five instalments. Till date, Buhari has paid a total of $446 million out of the $496 million. The Buhari government will make the last payment of $50 million next month and Ajaokuta will revert fully to the country and allow the implementation of government’s plan, including Russian intervention,  to make the company operational.  
 
Without showing any remorse and shame, Atiku Abubakar recently went to Kogi state, the home of the unfortunate Steel company to make another empty promise of reviving the company.
 
Atiku  probably wanted to cash in on the short memory of our people as his party has been going about with the conman campaign of recovering Nigeria, when it created, in the first place, the monumental damage that APC government has been struggling to fix for almost eight years.
 
While in charge of Nigeria, the PDP also left our national infrastructure, roads, rail, airports derelict. Notably, Atiku and his boss, Obasanjo failed to deliver on vital road networks, including roads to their towns. The APC government of President Buhari has now done the road to Atiku’s town in Jada, Adamawa State.
 
Worst of all and most callously, the PDP shared the $2.1 billion meant to procure arms to fight Boko Haram insurgency, making our soldiers vulnerable to the superior weaponry of the enemies of the state and allowing insecurity to fester.
 
In its degenerated state, the PDP in the last few days has been making outlandish claims and raising false alarms to just grab the headlines because the party and its perennial presidential candidate have nothing tangible to tell Nigerians because of their sordid past. If PDP campaign spokesmen are not making false claims of Billions being stashed away by our presidential candidate, their sleepwalking Director-General, Aminu Tambuwal who has no record of any achievement in Sokoto State, where he has been Governor for almost eight years, will construct imaginary plan by APC to hack INEC server and BVAS.   
 
Nigerians, we believe,   know the true hackers. Atiku’s  PDP did so in 2019 and may well be planning to do so this month. PDP has become a danger to itself and a big threat to our country that must be finally exterminated from our body politic by Nigerians through their votes against the party that set our country back.
 
In our view, Iyorchia Ayu did not suffer slip of the tongue. He was only reflecting an inner guilt about the grave damage his party inflicted on our country for 16 years.
 
In the coming elections, Nigerians should never make the error of allowing this discredited party smell the scent of power. Iyorchia’s PDP has not learnt any lesson and has not changed its behaviour. The Nigerian voters should simply consign it to the dustbin of history, while keeping faith with the APC, which offers Renewed Hope.
 
 
Bayo Onanuga 
Director, Media & Publicity 
APC Presidential Campaign Council 
February 10, 2023
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000 FOOT SOLDIERS TO WORK FOR TINUBU SANWO-OLU’S VICTORY AT THE POLLS WORKS MINISTER LAUNCHES 10

WORKS MINISTER LAUNCHES 10,000 FOOT SOLDIERS TO WORK FOR TINUBU, SANWO-OLU’S VICTORY AT THE POLLS

 

 

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

  • Sanwo-Olu: ‘Lagos must show its strength in general elections’

 

  • ‘Lagos PDP guber candidate an inexperienced cameraman, lacks knowledge of governance’ – Fashola

 

 

If All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, must record an overwhelming victory in the February 25 presidential elections, Lagos State must play a leading role in the candidate’s electoral success at the polls, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said on Thursday.

 

Sanwo-Olu said the five million votes pledged by the APC supporters in Lagos to deliver the State to Tinubu were not impossible, given the strength and structure of the campaign employed by the party in Lagos. The Governor said it was time for the party’s canvassers to embark on mass voter enlightenment in order to minimise void votes for the party.

 

The Governor spoke at the formal launching of “Eko O Ni Baje” 10,000 Foot Soldiers for Tinubu-Shettima/Sanwo-Olu-Hamzat, a project initiated by the Minister for Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN.

 

The event, attended by a large number of APC’s grassroots canvassers, was held at The Haven, GRA Ikeja.

 

Sanwo-Olu boasted that the party’s presidential ticket remained unbeatable, noting that Tinubu’s academic background, political acumen and administrative capacity stood him out as the most qualified contender with better credentials.

 

The Governor said election of Tinubu as president would usher in a new era of hope for the masses, adding that the APC presidential manifesto was designed to stimulate socio-economic growth and take the country to its pride place as a major force on the continent.

 

He said: “We gather today to add yet another layer to the structures already put in place with other existing platforms that are working for the victory of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. I thank our Honorable Minister and the team working with him for bringing about this stakeholders’ engagement. This is an engagement where we want to hit the ground running and our aim is to reach out to the electorate in every nook and cranny of Lagos.

 

“When we work together, we can achieve a lot together. With the emergence of this structure, the 5 million votes we pledged to deliver for our presidential candidate in Lagos will be delivered. We know that Tinubu is the best choice for our country at this moment in our history. This is a team that is unbeatable and one that possesses the best credentials, given the political and education backgrounds of Tinubu and Sen. Kashim Shettima.

 

“We have seen the reality of political and economic breakthroughs in Lagos. Given Tinubu’s skills, experience and capacity, we believe Nigeria would be better served under his leadership. We have seen how other States are working together for Asiwaju. We who are his people in Lagos cannot but keep our rightful position to deliver the larger number of votes to Tinubu-Shettima ticket. That is why we must put our political strength to work at the next presidential election.”

 

Sanwo-Olu said the APC candidate was already positioned to win the election, but said the party’s canvassers must work to ensure a wide margin of victory against Tinubu’s opponents.

 

The Governor said the task before APC foot soldiers was to adopt a method of vote management, stressing that the method involved proper education of the electorate on how to cast their ballots in line with methods prescribed by the electoral umpire.

 

Fashola, who is also the APC Presidential Campaign Council’s Director for Election Planning and Monitoring, said part of the charges to the recruited foot soldiers was to fight misinformation already spread by opposition parties against the ruling party.

 

The Minister, who was a two-term Governor of Lagos, took a swipe at the gubernatorial candidate of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), in Lagos, describing him as “inexperienced cameraman” who lacked knowledge about governance.

 

Fashola said: “Someone who worked as a backup cameraman during my time as Governor has been going all out to discredit our party. He thought he had acquired the knowledge to govern a State as big as Lagos because he operated a camera for eight years. I went through tutelage and I was trained to do the job…

 

“To be a Governor in Lagos, you need experience. I did the job for eight years and part of what helped me was being a Chief of Staff to a Governor. Even then, that was not enough. So, just following a Governor as a cameraman, watching me for eight years and you think you have enough capacity to be a Governor? You are not ready.”

 

The Minister listed reasons why Lagosians must keep their faith with APC, noting that all the inter-state highways connecting Lagos and neighbouring States were left in worse condition by the PDP-led government in 16 years. He said the APC government was on the verge of commissioning Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and delivering Lagos-Badagry Highway.

 

Fashola added that the metropolitan fibre network being laid across Lagos by the Sanwo-Olu administration was being developed to position the State for technological advancement, saying Lagos would be the smartest city in this sub region when the project is completed.

 

He said: “This election is not about whether we will beat them or not; it is about by what margin we will win. Our tool is about PVC, while our path to victory is our votes.”

 

Speaking at the event, Deputy Governor Obafemi Hamzat, said the presidential election would not be about sentiment but empirical facts on the track records of the contenders.

 

He urged the foot soldiers to percolate all communities in Lagos and spread the message of APC.

 

“We must educate young voters about the situation the country was in before APC took over and the progress we have recorded,” Hamzat said.

 

SIGNED

GBOYEGA AKOSILE

CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY

09 FEBRUARY 2023

 

 

Jimoh Ibrahim storms Okitipupa with Aseyori welfare packs….

 

as Ondo SSG,  Oladunni Odu canvasses votes for Tinubu,  Ibrahim,  other APC candidates.

 

 

Okitipupa, the headquarters of Okitipupa Local government stood still for Dr.Jimoh Ibrahim.  CFR on Thursday, February 9, 2023 as the purveyor of Aseyori Strategy and his campaign team arrived the Government Field Okitipupa, where members of APC in both Okitipupa wards 1 and 2 had gathered to listen to the APC Senatorial hopefull as well as collect the Aseyori welfare packs which was transported to the rally in lorry load.

 

 

Over 40 , 000 residents across the two wards thronged the Government Field where Dr Jimoh Ibrahim, Princess Oladunni Odu and other Ondo South strong party men and women were in attendance.

 

 

Dr. Ibrahim noted that Okitipupa has continued to play prominent role in the evolution of Ikaleland right from when it had been the headquarters of the defunct Okitipupa division.

 

Ibrahim said he was excited to see such huge number of people coming out, adding that Okitipupa holds a pride of place in his heart.

 

 

He said he would move  the Senate to pay the needed attention to Ikale, Ilaje, Apoi in the 10th Senate, stressing that he has a mandate for going to the senate, which is to bring development to Ondo South, hence his reaching to people of likes mind to believe in him and make his desire for the development of Ondo South possible by voting for him come February, 25.

 

The Secretary to Ondo State Government, SSG, Princess Oladunni Odu at the rally said Okitipupa people know on which side their bread is buttered and who can better their lot in the Senate, hence the need for them all to vote for Dr Jimoh Ibrahim for the Senate.

 

The first female Secretary to the Government of Ondo State noted further that the Ondo South electorate should vote for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu for President, Dr Jimoh Ibrahim for Senate and should remember to vote APC across all the elective offices on election day.

 

The visit to Okitipupa to distribute the Aseyori welfare packs by Dr Jimoh Ibrahim was in continuation of the second phase of his campaign tour of the 66 wards making up Ondo South Senatorial district .

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