Reacting to what it called “wild and spurious allegations” that Lagos
State Governor Tunde Fashola owns 60% of Intercontinental Hotel, the
All Progressive Congress has called on the Lagos PDP, manufacturers of
the allegation to provide proof.
In a release signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity Secretary of
the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the Party said PDP was on the verge of an
unstoppable extinction and asked its members to focus more on getting
their house in order so they could ever stand a chance at winning
credible elections.
The APC said, “we dismiss as empty, spurious and infantile the threat
by the crisis-ridden PDP to mobilise Lagosians against Governor Fashola
and we dare them to be men enough and live up to their resolve. We
wonder how an unpopular party, with few disillusioned members facing
monumental division, with a notorious history of corrupt governance and
with nothing to show for the huge revenue that had accrued to the
country for the past 14 years, can successfully mobilise Lagosians
against a governor that had made Lagos a reference point in good
governance not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa and, in deed, the
entire world.”
“It is horrifying, indeed, highly alarming that a party should
shamelessly engage in such dubious, irresponsible and callous peddling
of puerile lies for the dubious profit it aims to harvest from this. The
ownership of Intercontinental Lagos Hotel is the Milan Group, which is a
reputable company with long history of doing business and a verifiable
company and ownership structure.
“In establishing this record-breaking hotel, it drew some support
from the Lagos State government and Wema Bank. How this translates to
Fashola owning 60 per cent of the ownership is best known to the minds
of the grim reapers that will not cease from hoping that by sheer con
arts, they will corner Lagos and add it to the many states and the
federal states their party members had thoroughly wrecked and ran into
clear bankruptcy.
“As we await the Lagos PDP to come forward with the proof of their
wild and specious allegation, we will not help but point out to
Lagosians the dubiety of the characters that represent the PDP in Lagos.
They are asking Governor Fashola to declare his assets publicly while
they never saw anything wrong with the position of President Jonathan
that he won’t give a damn about the general outcry of Nigerians that he
declares his assets publicly in the face of the gargantuan corruption
that has pervaded the PDP governance of Nigeria,” it stated.
“We want to let the leftovers of the crisis-torn PDP know that
Lagosians are far ahead of them and will mete out a worse electoral
defeat for a party that has bankrupted Nigeria to the extent that
allocations to states are not being paid for the past three months, even
when Nigeria still reaps handsomely from the high prices of oil.
“For a party that has left our infrastructure dead, it smacks of
naivety to believe that Lagosians are not smart to know that all that
the PDP has left Nigeria after 14 years are poverty, misery, insecurity,
as well as the array of obscenely rich party men who feed fat from the
resources that would have bettered the lots of Nigerians.”
It added that “for a party that has successfully reduced life
expectancy in Nigeria from 70 when they came to powder to 42 today and
after looting over N200 trillion to now become a thief catcher in Lagos
says something about the PDP and what it stands for, which is dubiety
and fraud.”
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