Monday 21 April 2014
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Any attempt by
former Lagos State governor and a national leader of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, to impose former Accountant-General of the
state, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, as the next governor of Lagos would be resisted
vehemently, a group, Visioners for New Lagos (VNL) has warned.
The group
which threatened that it would be fight to finish if Tinubu and his cronies
insisted on imposing Ambode noted that it had studied the body language of the
APC leader and could tell where he was headed, especially that he was said to
have confided in some of his close confidants about the choice of Ambode.
Lagos, it
insisted, does not belong to any individual and would settle the scores once
and for all in 2015.
Coordinator of
the group which is sympathetic to the cause of the APC, Mr. Bambo Akin-Johnson,
said in spite of the ideals of the APC as a mega party, Tinubu has refused to
drop his unsavoury habit since the days of the Alliance for Democracy (AD),
driven by self-centredness, political Darwinism and perceived ownership of the
state.
He said:
“There is no doubt about the fact that Tinubu has settled for Mr. Akin Ambode
as his governorship candidate in 2015. Why no one is opposed to the person of
Ambode aspiring to the office of the governor, we take exception to his
imposition. If anything, he must be a product of a credible process in the
emerging new Lagos.
“The sentiment
of playing the religion and zonal card as if the two factors have consciously
been part of the Lagos political system will be counter-productive. In fact,
Tinubu’s enemies cannot wait to see him fail since he has chosen to arrogate to
himself, the power of life and death as if there was no Lagos before him.
“Only
recently, Tinubu and a monarch were allegedly at a function in the state where
they both openly boasted that they owned Lagos and would do with it whatever
pleased them.
“Therefore,
the idea of zoning is well understood. Taking it to the East is a clever way of
eliminating some of the strong candidates perceived as standing in the ways of
their ploy, by which time the other contestants would be shoved aside for the
preferred Ambode without recourse to what other stakeholders, particularly
party members think,” he said.
According to
him, “While we would not dismiss anyone who is qualified to vie for the office
of the governor of Lagos State, we have a right to ask questions about the
person leading us to the next level and above all, it must be a decision of all
through the ballot and not a manipulation of the system by a few.
“Tinubu’s
cave-age illusion that he has it all planned is stuck this time. Let him pull
as much weight as he could, the truth is that he does not own Lagos. The
ownership of Lagos is collective and the accruing collective authority will be
willingly relinquished to a candidate of choice and not any dummy planted to do
the master’s bidding.
“Enough
of this leadership excesses. We are prepared to resist every dictatorship in
civilian garb and there is no better time or opportunity to put this to test
than 2015. We insist that it is defective; it is retrogressive; it is
counter-productive. We will fight it to the finish in 2015 and we shall do this
within the ambit of the law and democratic ethos,” he noted.
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