IN reaction to the Federal Government’s statement on Monday that the administration of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola was doing nothing significant in Lagos, the state chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described the Minister for Information, Labaran Maku, as a disoriented wayfarer and a serial blackmailer who has ridiculed the Information Ministry with his attempt to extort states for a phantom good governance tour when he had done nothing to lift the Ministry of Information above the said position of purveyors of infantile propaganda.
In a release signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that it is ridiculous for a so-called Information Minister to demonstrate this low level of opinion about a globally-lauded government, just because Lagos refused to entertain the kind of banality Maku and his ilk have employed to extort states in the name of good governance jamboree.
The party said that Lagos State government exists for the people of Lagos who know and appreciate the value of good governance and not pay-for-hire jobbers like Maku.
In Ondo State, ACN chieftain and senator representing Ondo-North in the upper legislative chamber, Robert Ajayi Boroffice, said yesterday that there is no leadership crisis rocking the state.
Stressing that the Ondo ACN state is very strong, united and growing by the day, the senator, who was once eyeing the gubernatorial seat on the platform of the party, said the party is being positioned to take over the state administration.
Boroffice’s clarification is coming on the heels of his inauguration of the All Progressive Congress (APC) merger committee in the state, which was kicked against by the state executive of the party.
Boroffice declared: “I was given the mandate to midwife the process of bringing all the parties involved in the merger process, being the highest political office holder in the Ondo ACN by the national leadership of the party at a meeting recently and there was a communiquĂ© to that effect.
But the state executive of the party, through its publicity secretary, Rotimi Agbede, who felt slighted for not being carried along in the merger talk, disowned the senator.
The Oyo State chapter of the ACN has said that if it needs any other indicator that the party and its governor, Abiola Ajimobi’s, ratings had risen to a formidable level, it was the political gang-up of his ex-co aspirants in the April 2011 elections who were former governors of the state.
The party made this known in a reaction issued by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Dauda Kolawole.
According to the people, the gang-up had shown the political desperation of the two former governors and an admission of the fact that, individually, they cannot face Ajimobi and the ACN in the 2015 elections.
“We are very happy about this gang-up. Wonders indeed can never end. That these two strange bedfellows, who had, a while ago, fought a titanic battle to destroy each other, one releasing details of the corruption of the other while in government and the other telling the world that his successor was crass illiterate, could come together to fight Ajimobi shows that our governor is now a mighty Iroko tree that these two gladiators needed to come together to fell. But, combined, the two cannot measure up,” the ACN said.
The party said that, against the thinking of the two former governors, politics in Oyo State had moved beyond brickbats, hatred, personal animosities and selfish ego gang-up.
Igbokwe, in his reaction, said Governor Fashola’s refusal to honour Maku’s tour of folly remains the reason why Maku made the nonsensical statement that Governor Fashola is doing nothing when every other opinion is otherwise.
“Ordinarily, we would not be drawn to join issues with Maku because he does not know what good governance is and will never recognise one, if he comes in contact with it. We know that Maku is merely vending sour grapes because the Lagos State government saw through his folly of organising a programmed revelry in the name of good governance tour.”
One would have expected a parodist like Maku to come to Lagos to unveil the new Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the new Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, the new Lagos-Badagry Expressway, the new Airport Road, the new Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, the modern state-of-the-art schools, hospitals, modern railways, among other, which his government has fixed with the 52 per cent monthly allocation it corners.
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