Dosunmu’s A Neophyte, Can’t Fit Into Fashola’s Cabinet —Lagos ACN

The Lagos State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has described the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP governorship candidate for Lagos, Dr. Ade Dosunmu as a neophyte who cannot fit into the present Governor Babatunde Fashola’s cabinet let alone  govern a complex state like Lagos.

The party insisted that Lagos presented a more difficult governing challenge than even the Federal Government and did not need a greenhorn who is still enslaved in the decrepit politics of the past at this time in its history.

The Lagos ACN was reacting to claim by Dosunmu that Lagos was not developing because it was not being governed by a PDP government that controlled the Federal Government.

A statement signed by Lagos ACN Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe said the party described this as a sparse reasoning that had failed woefully even as it lacked any factual basis except as a meal ticket to political speculators that did not have anything to offer.

“We wonder how someone who still believes in the nebulous politics of the centre with all its proven failures can govern an emerging mega city and a state that is seen as Nigeria’s best example of a workable state in the midst of the profound failure which the PDP Federal Government and PDP controlled states have been these past twelve years.

“It is obvious that Dosunmu lacks conviction, lacks ideas and lacks the requisite accoutrements of governance, hence such dead philosophies that are as rootless and hollow as those that propound them still entice him so much that he can seek to hoodwink the sophisticated voters of Lagos with it. This presents a woeful starting for this political neophyte who longs for the big shoes of Governor Fashola for his little feet,” it said.             “At this point in the history of the development of Lagos State, we are pleasantly surprised that a candidate that wants to rule Lagos, as it is now, is still telling the populace to go back to the decay and rot that have been the hallmarks of PDP’s disastrous hold on power all over Nigeria these past twelve years.

“We are surprised that someone that could win the governorship ticket of a political party in Lagos is so bare and hollow that he is reciting the pre-bendal gospel of his political forbears who live on the rents and free meal provided by government. We are surprised that the PDP candidate started so poorly in reciting meaningless credos that have been proved over and over again to be mere meal tickets for the hustlers that make up the PDP and believes this will give him a license to govern a sophisticated state like Lagos,” the party added.

According to ACN, “we may not go as far as to ask Dosunmu what positive values the PDP has invested in governance; either at the federal level or the states they govern, for the truth of the despoliation this notorious party has inflicted on Nigerians these past twelve years lives with all of us.

“We may rather challenge Dosumnu to explain why his party has supervised the worst degradation of infrastructure, the worst form of decay in all sectors of our national lives, the worst state of insecurity, the worst case of unemployment, poverty, alienation, corruption, etc. in the history of the country.

“We know that Dosumnu and his party, so bereft of ideas and so wanting in good intentions for the country know the widespread verdicts of Nigerians on PDP’s unfortunate reign these past twelve years than to wish such curse on Lagosians who are enjoying the fruits of progressive and resourceful governance, as attested to by even PDP members all over the country.”

The ACN challenged Dosunmu and his party to point to any relevant intervention by the PDP government in the last twelve years on the nation’s decaying infrastructure like roads, hospitals, schools, energy, employment, water supply, power, among others.

It stated that if Dosunmu ever attempted to do that, he would discover that the PDP is a curse to any state it  governs and that nothing good could ever come out of the liability, which PDP had proved to be to Nigerians.

“It is a pity that Dosunmu dwells so much in the past that he still believes he can capture Lagos by preaching a worn out but disastrous politics of the centre, which had been proved to be a mere empty meal tickets that worsens the fate of the people instead of improving them.

“The sorry state of PDP states all over the country today has shown that Dosunmu lacks the competence to be in the cabinet of Fashola in Lagos, lacks the tact to even chairman a local government in the Lagos of today. Lagosians only need to look at the nearest PDP state to know the kind of government a Dosunmu would enact in Lagos were Lagosians so unfortunate to vote for him in April,” it added.

The party stated that it was obvious that Dosunmu and his party were clearly overwhelmed by the present state of Lagos, such that they found no foothold to attack the achievements of  Fashola’s government as a way of gaining even a miniature foothold in Lagos.

“Lagos ACN is even more surprised that a governorship candidate who wants to be taken seriously in Lagos is desirous of dragging Lagos back to the level of an average PDP state when Lagos is already transforming into a model state, a mega city with gigantic infrastructure to drive its growth.

“We urge the PDP to accept a fact they can never change and that fact is that Lagos has gone far out of their reach than at any time before now. We urge them to quit trying and rather congratulate the Fashola regime for its wonderful feats in Lagos, which will certainly earn the regime a resounding victory at the coming polls,” it stated.

— Kazeem Ugbodaga

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