You can’t get 5 per cent vote in Lagos - ACN tells PDP

THE governorship campaign of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) standard bearer in Lagos State, Mr Babatunde Fashola, was on Saturday, flagged off at the Tafawa Balewa Square, Lagos, with a call by the leaders of the party urging the party supporters and Lagosians to resist any attempt by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to capture Lagos State and the Southwest zone.

The leadership of the party, including Senator Bola Tinubu, the party’s national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, the party’s presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and Governoer Fashola, vowed to resist all antics by any political party to rig election in the April general polls.

While appealing to Lagosians to vote him for a second term in office, Fashola said that ACN was set to claim all the slots in the Southwest in the April polls, saying PDP would lose their deposits in all the states.

Speaking in the same vein, Tinubu urged the party loyalists and the electorate to ensure that they sweep away the PDP, which he dubbed Poverty Development Party , in the next election.

He lambasted the party for not being able to fix the problems facing Nigeria for the past 12 years , adding that rather than for the PDP to ameliorate the suffering of Nigerians , it added to it.

Tinubu also declared that he was proud of Fashola’s achievement since he became the governor of the state, and that his achievements bear testimony that the PDP will not have five per cent of votes in Lagos.

He explained that several threats by the PDP to capture Lagos State at all cost, have never moved the ACN and that they will defeat the PDP with a landslide margin, just as he urged Nigerians to vote enmasse for the party’s presidential candidate.

Toeing his line, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu noted that the only challenge confronting the nation is the PDP.

He said leaders of the party do tell lies, adding that this has been the major problem of the party because they make promises and they don’t deliver.

He, however, promised that ACN will bring the type of change witnessed in Lagos under Fashola’s government to all the 36 states in the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.

“We’ll bring change to Nigeria . We will give people that have integrity the opportunity to prove themselves,” he said.

Also addressing the audience, Mr. Fola Adeola, Ribadu’s running mate explained that PDP has not done anything to show that it is worth voting for in April. “They have failed the country three times because they don’t have anything to offer. We would make change, if given the opportunity,” he promised.