ACN hypocrisy: Pot Calling the PDP Kettle Black! Buhari Boys Attack ACN.- “Our ACN friends posture as the enemies of Obasanjo 3rd term and full of rage when Jonathan was to introduce tenure elongation bill; but today there is a bill before the Lagos Assembly to elongate tenure of council leaders so that instead of holding elections next year, the current officials will be in office for 2015 elections.” – Yinka Odumakin, Gen Buhari Spokesman.
A BILL FOR A Law to provide for the Local Government System, Establishment and Administration of Local Government Councils/Local Council Development Areas in Lagos State and for other connected purposes.
“2) All persons holding elective offices in the Local Government Areas specified in the Schedule to this Law shall, from the date of the coming into force of this Law, be deemed to have been duly and validly elected under this Law.”
This reminds me of another ACN/PDP art imitating real life condudndrum: Re: Incumbency in Nigerian Politics
1. PDP has ran Aso Rock for 14 years;
2. ACN has ran Alausa for 14 years;
If you are one of those that insist that ‘until another party runs Aso Rock, our Democracy cannot be said to have arrived,’ would you also agree that until ‘until another party runs Alausa, then Democracy within the state has equally not arrived?’
So may be what we should agree to is an exchange of “Aso Rock” for “Alausa” in 2015; I would gladly vote out PDP in the centre if the supporters of ACN/APC agree to vote in PDP in Lagos as well. – Favour Afolabi
Still on ACN hypocrisy:
-Chief Akande,Tinubu and Ribadu went to raise the hands of a man caught in the act of robbery and who prompted Nuhu Aliyu to say there were criminals in Senate,as ACN governorship candidate in IMO state in 2011?
-When Tom Ikimi (Abacha Boy) who was hounding the Akinriandes and Soyinka in NADECO days emerged as Leader of ACN merger committee ?
-When Atiku whom many of your leaders believed was part of the conspiracy to take Ige out was made AC presidential flag-bearer?
The rank hypocrisy of your people is glaring for even a blind to see.When some of us worked with Buhari in 2011,there was no word you guys didn’t use against working with a ” Fulani”, is he now an Iragbiji person that you are together in Phen-sic or APC?
And with all the cloud over Tinubu,he is not just a member of your group but your NATIONAL LEADER (in a group where you have Chief Bisi Akande!) – Yinka Odumakin.
ON a final note, Given Atiku Abubakar’s comment that while he was the Action Congress presidential candidate, in 2003, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, BAT, was funding Alhaji Umaru Yar’adua’s PDP candidacy and the analogous situation with Ribadu in 2011, it would be a good question to ask, what is Tinubu’s REAL take on the current Mega Party merger?
“At that time, there was no Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). What we had was The Buhari Organisation (TBO). Suddenly, CPC was registered. To me, at that stage, instead of a merger to form a unified platform, they started talking about alliance. Alliance in a presidential system has never worked. You need to form a common platform with a common manifesto to be able to work together and be able to educate the people on the difference between the common platform and the constituting parties.
When the merger plan did not work, they dragged us back. I will not blame any person. But Buhari, as a leader who is highly experienced, and has been a statesman and contested election twice and has complained of rigging and irregularities in court for a long time challenging the process, he should have seen that it is not wise to bring CPC in at the time we were rooting for a merger. But we still respected him and wanted to continue with the merger plan, but he said he wanted an alliance. So, the merger was suspended.
However, if you want alliance, instead of a merger, you must be ready to negotiate, give, take and make sacrifices. But it is unfortunate that we are so self-centred and selfish to the extent that it beclouds our patriotic sense. They do not want to give, but want take. We suspended the alliance talk till after the National Assembly election, the result of which showed that Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has better strength and better spread than CPC. So, we should be the leader in the alliance.
But they want to keep the presidential candidate as well as the running mate, in an alliance where we should be the leading pack. Now, the alliance is not strong enough to produce the senate president, neither can it produce the House of Representative Speaker, so what are we going to get in return? I am ready to sacrifice my two legs to be amputated, but you are not even ready to sacrifice your index finger. They were offering us cabinet positions which you can change your mind tomorrow and sack at will. AsWe were still ready to go along with the plan in the interest of the country. But we later discovered that while we were negotiating with Buhari, he was also speaking with the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), to which he had conceded the slot of Vice Presidency. We accepted him (Bakare), but asked him to surrender the vice presidential slot. If we do not have that, our platform, which we have laboured so hard to build, will be in danger.
So we proposed a merger which will be implemented after the election. We could not afford to jettison our symbol because it is the symbol of economy, especially for the poor. But we were ready for a joint logo that will show the broom on one side and Buhari’s pen on another side as a new logo for the future.
The negotiation went to that extent. Yet, Buhari refused to commit to that plan. At that point, it became clear that he was only after using us to win election, without having any regard for our platform. We decided at that point to cancel all suggestions and look at things holistically”. – Asiwaju B A Tinubu, speaking in 2011 on the botched 2011 ACN/CPC Merger.
“There is a cult of intellectuals now in Yorubaland whose world view starts and ends in Bourdillon and no one else makes sense to them.” – Yinka Odumakin, Gen Buhari Spokesman.
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