The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has described as a pipe dream and an unnecessary dissipation of energy President Goodluck Jonathan’s exhortation to his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to win Lagos in the 2011 general elections. In a statement issued in Benin on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the president should be focusing his energy on preventing Oyo and Ogun states from slipping away from the PDP, even though that in itself was an uphill task, instead of engaging in wishful thinking concerning Lagos.

‘’The PDP’s hope of winning Lagos is best captured in the travails of a leper who, after managing to hold on to the few bean cakes he has just purchased, was asked to take some bonus cakes with him. Of course he replied that the benevolent seller should pray for him to even be able to take home the ones he had just purchased, instead of adding more.

‘’Mr. President, no one who has ever tasted the honey of good governance, that the ACN government in Lagos State and other states have been dishing out to the people, will opt for the bitter pill of bad governance that has been the lot of the PDP at all levels of governance.

‘’The good people of Lagos have said ‘never again’ to bad governance, and therefore will use their votes wisely in 2011 to slam the door against a possible PDP government in the state,’’ it said.
Commenting on President Jonathan’s ‘’mourning of the PDP’s big losses in the South-west,’’ ACN said it should be clear to the president that in over 10 years of democratic rule, the PDP had not been able to convince the people that it deserves their votes.

‘’Despite the PDP’s resort to self help to ‘capture’ many states - especially in the South-west - during the last general elections, it should not have been a surprise to President Jonathan that those ‘captured’ states have now slipped away from the stranglehold of the PDP, thanks to the judiciary,’’ the party said.
ACN said the hurricane ‘progressive’ that was sweeping across the South-west was not about to stop until it had swept off all the vestiges of purposeless governance from the region, and that not even a president’s wishful thinking could stand in its way.
The party reminded President Jonathan that even his benefactor and the apostle of do-or-die politics did all in his power to ‘capture’ Lagos State in 2007, but was defeated by the power of the people.

‘’Since power belongs to the people, and the same people have vowed to protect their votes at all cost, the PDP and its leaders should not become starry-eyed about the prospect of winning Lagos in 2011,’’ it said.
In a related development, the Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria (CAN) has advised President Jonathan not to allow himself, to be duped by political profiteers who had no electoral value by their so-called endorsements.
The party said the president would do better by steering Nigerian ship aright than gallivanting all over the place building fanciful political dreams that would never come to reality.

In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party described Jonathan’s wish for a PDP conquest of Lagos as a wild and hollow dream, which would never be realized in “our lifetime.”
It said Jonathan was courting political doom in the South-west if he continued to romance unrealizable political dreams and advised the president to sit down and face the task on hand instead of the present revelling in the name of politicking.
“We are surprised that the president allowed himself to be cornered by the fast disappearing breed of vote robbers that have been recently rusticated from stolen mandates all over South-west and allowed them to sell him a worthless and unrealizable dream of conquering the South-west when it is obvious that the PDP is gone in the South-west and greatly endangered all over the country.”

It was obvious that the president and his South-west PDP brethrens are hoping on the same bizarre fraud that benefitted them in 2003 and 2007 but we want to assure them that they will have another thing coming in 2011. One would have expected a focused president to concentrate on the job of fixing the fast dilapidating structures in Nigeria and hope on that to give him approval among the people instead of gallivanting all over the place and getting political never do wells tickle his fancy and promised him heaven on earth.”

“We, at Lagos ACN and indeed majority of Nigerians know that the PDP for twelve years has been the single greatest bad news afflicting Nigeria and holding the country down in the comity of nations and which have eaten away the lives of Nigerians in these sad years. We know that Nigerians are united by the hatred they share for the PDP for taking us to this sorry state and that they are demanding stridently for a free and fair election in 2011 so as to free the PDP off the Nigerian power saddle. We know that in recent times, the PDP has suffered worse fates in the South West where it acquired power in 2003 and 2007 through electoral forgery and wanton fraud. We wonder what a president that wants Nigerians to take him serious will have with people who should be in jail for electoral robbery and how he will allow himself to be manipulated by these sets of remorseless perpetrators of electoral chicanery to dream of winning the South West in 2011. We wonder the premise for such mid day dreams if not the desperate desire to hear flattering words from political spent forces who have been made fugitives by the bestial acts they perpetrated to steal power in the South West.

“We are appalled that President Jonathan is busy romancing irreverent riggers for whatever political capital he hopes to curry from that but we want to let him know that Nigerians are decent enough to ostracize these people who have messed up the country’s electoral system in the past twelve years for their selfish benefits. While we wish Jonathan and his South West PDP luck in their hallucination of using magical powers to arrest the catastrophic degeneration of their party in the South West, we want to warn them that Nigerians are wiser now and see the reasons for change in the hobbled state the PDP has brought on us these past twelve years. We assure him that his party is on its last lap and that nothing will save the PDP from the well expressed anger of Nigerians in 2011.

“Lagos ACN would not be drawn into trading words with anybody over the possibility or otherwise of PDP winning Lagos for that is a pipe dream that would never be realized in our time. We won’t even be drawn into discussing the present withering fortune of the PDP in the South West because we know the party is as good as gone in the South West and other zones in Nigeria as it exists merely through electoral fraud. We assure Jonathan that his fate will be worse in 2011 if he continues romancing political fraudsters and never do wells, either in the South west or elsewhere. We believe he stands a better chance of demonstrating what he can do with power, not by gallivanting and uttering sweet nothings to political liabilities but improving the rickety state of Nigeria. We want to assure him that there is no short cut to power and if he is led into believing that there is at this very turn of Nigerian history, he has to expect the shock from Nigerians in 2011.”

Joe Igbokwe.
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos ACN

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2010/dec/21/national-21-12-2010-01.htm

ACN stop making noise.All of you are thesame.If given the opportunity ull do worst.All that is happening in Lagos state is FASHOLAS personal effort, not a party thing.And some of you are still fighting him.Especially Thief TINUBU

To some extent, this was uncalled-for. Why can't the ACN focus it's attention on tightening it's grip on the states it controls and on how to win Ogun and Oyo States instead of initiating a useless war of words?

Birds of the same feather, !!

ACN should go ahead and do whatever. Truth is if people would vote for GEJ in the end it will not be because of his affiliation with PDP but because of his person just as we have someone like Fashola.

all of una na same tin finish

it worries me if you guys here have learnt the profession called politics. What do you think ACN has been using to reclaim mandates in southwest--- Media war ofcourse. That is is the practice in all nations. Let the war continues. PDP should respond to those facts. I am not a supporter of ACN but democracy thrives better when there is a strong opposition. It makes leaders sit properly and know that someone is watching. What we should clamour for is strong opposition in Lagos too so dat Fashola could sit right also cos there are still lots to be done. Please guys be mature and do not think those words are not necessary.

I have always say i dont like this man called Tinubu but you guys will never understand his politics , it is not different from what baba iyabo do maybe just a little bit re modified, We all know ACN will use Fashola to win the election and dump him maybe via impeachment , PDP cant win Lagos in the gubernatorial election
but they will all vote for GEJ

stine b:

ACN stop making noise.All of you are thesame.If given the opportunity ull do worst.All that is happening in Lagos state is FASHOLAS personal effort, not a party thing.And some of you are still fighting him.Especially Thief TINUBU

If wishes were horses,

We all know
ACN will use Fashola to win the
election and dump him maybe
via impeachment

Please, speak for yourself and quit making baseless and factless utterances. Exactly how do know? Has ACN done it before, or are you mistaking PDP for the aforementioned party now?

ACN all the way.

All traces of PDP should be booted out including GEJ, OBJ, Anenih etc

stine b:

ACN stop making noise.All of you are thesame.If given the opportunity ull do worst.All that is happening in Lagos state is FASHOLAS personal effort, not a party thing.And some of you are still fighting him.Especially Thief TINUBU

He even stopped Fashola bustling performance after the first two years because more money were pumped into development than into Tinubu pockets under the guise of party funding. na our tax money you dey take run ACN. make thunder fire them .

johnson11:

I have always say i dont like this man called Tinubu but you guys will never understand his politics , it is not different from what baba iyabo do maybe just a little bit re modified, We all know ACN will use Fashola to win the election and dump him maybe via impeachment , PDP cant win Lagos in the gubernatorial election
but they will all vote for GEJ

correct talk.

stine b:

ACN stop making noise.All of you are thesame.If given the opportunity ull do worst.All that is happening in Lagos state is FASHOLAS personal effort, not a party thing.And some of you are still fighting him.Especially Thief TINUBU

Nothing stops PDP from bringing people who will put in personal effort if that's what we need to move forward.
The party has a very big role to play, you don't think a dull guy like GEJ will make decisions in a party that has rogues like Obasanjo, Atiku, IBB, Annenih and co, do you

Fasholas personal effort? Why cant Akala, oyinlola, Daniels and Oni also put their personal effort to better their states?

VOTE PDP out simple. IF ACN or CPC gets there we will demand good governance from them as well. So leave the crab's talk. You will seat there, you wont support anyone, you wont do anything to make the difference and simple but to condemn everyone. Shame on critics

Well tell them this: THEY COULDN'T BE TOO SURE ABOUT THAT, COZ GEJ IS THE CHOSEN ONE

newmi:

Well tell them this: THEY COULDN'T BE TOO SURE ABOUT THAT, COZ GEJ IS THE CHOSEN ONE

A typical Nigerian for you. He/She wants better power supply, better economy etc. You can't keep doing the same thing and expect a different result, PDP has been there since 1999 with no meaningful impact on the life of the average Nigerian. The earlier we do away with PDP, the better. GEJ has got nothing good to offer, what has he done since taking over that makes you feel he's the chosen one

ACN for you!!!!
http://tribune.com.ng/index.php/news/15091-assets-declaration-by-fayemi-deputy-a-hoax-oni

why would you vote for AC or is it ACN now
a party that was not responsible enough to keep its registration documents properly.
if not for the efforts of Fashola- AC/ACN is just the same old wine in a new bottle a complete waste.

wateva, all we want is good governance, PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA, HIV, BSC, HND wherever the president is coming from, i dont care, he or she should just be sensible enough to see our pains and problems, chikena!

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wateva, all we want is good governance, PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA, HIV, BSC, HND wherever the president is coming from, i dont care, he or she should just be sensible enough to see our pains and problems, chikena!

You cannot dissociate a man from his party policies. Remember he got their through delegates votes and must represent them. How many evil men in a party will determine what will happen in Govt. As at today PDP has been there since 1999 and they have shown their stuffs. So it is time to try another party. That is how to make democracy work. No party in USA, UK and other developed economies can boast that they will RULE their nation for 80yrs. The power is vested on people. Cameron was brought in when people felt Labour had been too careless with their border control now he may likely be on his way out because of harsh economic principles vested on people.

Let us wake up and do the right thing once and for all. Nigeria case is always pathetic. We always have unprepared person becoming our president and they go their to experiment with our destinies, e.g OBJ was not part of democratic struggles, yet in 1999, he got it, same with Yaradua, now Jonathan. 2 yrs ago, was jonathan thinking of presidency? Obama has been dreaming about it for yrs and was doing something worthwhile to EARN it. Here, opportunist without ideas rule us. Mrs Jonathan had launched Woman for Change Initiatives because she must be seen to have done something. Did she tot of this 4 years ago. The Presidency seat is an highly exalted and responsible office and ill prepared challantans should not just get their on sentiments. Jonathan has done nothing to deserve this seat. Religious con will compare Jonathan with David but they forgot that it was recorded that David shepherd Israel with the INTEGRITY of his heart and SKILLFULNESS of his hands,

If South South must be president, present candidates with history of performance- not a perfect man but at least to recruit a manager of a coy, you will check his CV and what he has done in the past and what he can bring to the table. Please let us think when we contribute cos posterity will ask us what we did when all these injustices were going on

ayubam:

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wateva, all we want is good governance, PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA, HIV, BSC, HND wherever the president is coming from, i dont care, he or she should just be sensible enough to see our pains and problems, chikena!

Word man.

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wateva, all we want is good governance, PDP, ACN, CPC, APGA, HIV, BSC, HND wherever the president is coming from, i dont care, he or she should just be sensible enough to see our pains and problems, chikena!


Word man.

And how do you get the good governance. Is it not through the process of electioneering? Your position is just apathy. It wont take us anywhere. People's mind must be unblocked to see how the process that will ensure good governance comes to bare. You cannot wish good governance, it must be worked out. No ome man can change Nigeria. It requires team building so dat no flesh might glorify.

Think guys. We cant afford to be lazy at this time. We need to put all our arsenal at work. Get your thinking caps guys and let us edge this charlatans out of power. If another party gets there and they start messing up the way ACN has started in Lagos, vote them out. By so doing, they will know power rest with the people.

oto oro

It's time to try something different, PDP has failed this country woefully, there is no harm in changing hands. Democracy thrives well when their is strong opposition.

Nigerians should be allowed to make their choice and stop imposing on them cos that's what PDP has always been doing. It's time for Nigerian to say big NO to bad governance and stand by their "NO"

politics

tolu001:

It's time to try something different, PDP has failed this country woefully, there is no harm in changing hands. Democracy thrives well when their is strong opposition.

Nigerians should be allowed to make their choice and stop imposing on them cos that's what PDP has always been doing. It's time for Nigerian to say big NO to bad governance and stand by their "NO"

failed is an understatement, a party that has over 90% of law makers (fed and state) and they cant use this majority to change the fortunes of the citizenry.

Yes fashola is doing a great job but lets not take it away from the party; cos when they threatened, it slowed him down; so we need the right persons and party to have meaningful development