15th November, 2010
Leaders of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in the Lagos East Senatorial District of Lagos State, southwest Nigeria, have expressed support for  the call on Governor Babatunde Fashola to seek another term in office in the 2011 governorship election.
The party stalwarts also used the stakeholders’ meetingto pass vote of confidence on the leadership of the Lagos East Senatorial District led by Otunba Busura Alebiosu.
The gathering had in attendance several ACN bigwigs including Leader of the Senatorial District Otunba Busura Alebiosu; the former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, Chief Olorunfunmi Bashorun, Senator Anthony Adefuye, former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Jokotola Pelumi and other ACN top shots.
Also present at the meeting were National Assembly members from the district. Senator Olorunnibe Mamora and Hon. Dayo Bush-Alebiousu, a Federal Lawmaker representing Kosofe Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives were also present.
The party leaders also acknowledged the nationalistic virtues of the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying his leadership qualities as a political icon remain a repository for the political class.
Alebiosu said there can never be division within the ACN as the party remains one, adding that reports of divisions were figments of the imagination of other political parties, targeted at distracting ACN from achieving the ultimate goal of being the party of choice in Lagos State.
Also speaking, Ogunleye and Chief Olorunfunmi Bashorun noted that the gathering was a manifestation that the party was united and an indication that ACN, being the only party in Lagos State, would once again be victorious at next year’s elections.
In his remarks, Bush-Alebiosu enjoined party members in the Senatorial District to ensure that they remained focused and united ahead of next year’s elections.
In his speech, Mamora said the party in the last few days had witnessed the defection of senators into its fold, saying more people were still coming to join the ACN because the party could boast that it was the only one with sound democratic discipline where opinions of all count.
Mamora noted that the people of Lagos State could never vote for any other party other than ACN because they had witnessed endless transformation of the socio-political and economic landscape of the state by the administration of Fashola, hence the call on the governor to take another shot at the race in 2011.
