tobnical: Presidency Reacts to ACN Order On President Jonathan Not To Use Lagos Roads on His State Visit.

STATEMENT BY THE SENIOR SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT (PUBLIC AFFAIRS) DR. DOYIN OKUPE ON THE STATEMENT BY THE ACTION CONGRESS OF NIGERIA’S NATIONAL PUBLICITY SECRETARY, ALHAJI LAI MOHAMMED CALLING ON LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR, BABATUNDE RAJI FASHOLA TO PREVENT PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN FROM VISITING LAGOS

Our attention has been drawn to the unfortunate and irresponsible comments of Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in respect of President Goodluck Jonathan’s impending visit to Lagos.

Lai Mohammed is obviously misguided and mischievous in his disposition. It is difficult to understand or explain how he expects Governor Babatunde Fashola to control or obstruct the movement of President Jonathan, the President and Commander -in Chief of the Armed Forces
of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

It is obvious that Alhaji Lai Mohammed does not have the least of understanding of the workings of government or official protocol. The insult to the president of the nation who is the symbol of our collective sovereignty as contained in his letter to Governor Fashola is obviously a
product of a warped mind that is equally evil and unprogressive. We have always known that Alhaji Mohammed is not fit to be a national officer of a decent political party as evinced by the outbursts and vituperations that emit from his shallow mind.

We know for a fact that Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola is of higher breed with proper upbringing and will not descend to the level of debased political wretchedness to which Alhaji Mohammed belongs.

We wish to state categorically that the President’s visit to Lagos cannot in any way affect the proceedings of the ACN convention or its proposed merger with other parties. Such thinking can only come from a mind intent on making mischief and raising false alarm as usual just in order to score cheap political points and heat up the polity unnecessarily.

Nigerians must now know Alhaji Mohammed for what he is: a confusionist, scaremonger and a debased politician with a belly full of deceit, mischief and treachery.

Signed: DR. DOYIN OKUPE
SSAPA, APRIL 17, 2013.

Omo_Tier1:
Tell me why I would take a government with a spokesman that write in this manner serious Even if ACN said they were going to let hell loose in Lagos during the visit, is there no longer a diplomatic channel in government where issues of this nature can be discussed and resolved amicably?

tobnical:
The insult to the president of the nation who is the symbol of our collective sovereignty

awodman:
Since ACN has decided to throw decorum to gutters,then I guess its right to reply them in the language they understand.

Eziachi:
The symbol of a collective sovereignty in a democracy is the constitution and not a passing politician. When you use people best suited to work at Iddo motor park as your spokesman, this is what you get-gutter language and inaccurate statements.

pro01:

If you don't like the word 'symbol', then you might as well try 'embodiment'. In either case, the president of a sovereign country symbolises and/or embodies the sovereignty of that country, as does the flag. Your prejudices or subjective opinions about the personality of the "passing politician" occupying that position does not and can not reduce, let alone change, the symbolic significance of the position itself.

In essence, Okupe is right: President Goodluck Jonathan symbolises the sovereignty of Nigeria by virtue of his position as the leader of this independent country, and this would remain the case for as long as he remains President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.

chiover: The Lai Muhammed of a man lacks good thinking abilit(ies). Who is a Governor to stop his p(P)resident from making use of roads? Some were just born to ferment (forment) crisis

pro01:

Why bother to reply him. It disgusts me when people conveniently ignore the misdeeds of an offender and only choose to dwell on the reaction of the offended. Why should the onus of using "diplomatic channels in such matters" lie with the presidency and not the Lagos State government and its party of brash, ill-bred rascals? Would such a "matter" have arisen in the first place if the ACN and its tactless spokesman had been "diplomatic" ab initio?

Senseless and unprovoked attacks should be responded to with as much force and venom as one can muster. Decorum is not a one-way street. You can't sow thorns and expect to reap roses.

Eko Ile: I like this Lai Mohamed guy I swear...


lmao.



He jerks their chain like kite and get them dancing at will. This okupeh guy shouldn't be speaking for a dog talk less the president of any country because every time he respond to the Lai mohamed or the opposition especially with all the angry and fighting words, he undermines the the prestige of that office, he lowers the president's profile to that of a street fighter that must respond to anything and everything without dignity.


They need to send that joker to some PR school to get schooled..

corpwide:

On point. The language is simply unbecoming of the office of the president.

Lai is the standard bearer when the issue is opposition research and politics. It is not an easy thing to have the entire gamut of the Nigerian government on the defensive but there is Lai for you. Like an old Marxian propagandist, Lai, unlike most political actors, has empathy towards the people. You cannot be a leader when you don’t share feelings of the people. To that extent, he is proactive, always the one taking the battle to the ruling government and party


Reactions to Lai from the party and government are mostly crude and tasteless. Time and again, the people speaking for the government and party have the habit of putting their foot in the mouth without any rhyme, rhythm or reason.