Threat To Tinubu’s Life Real, Says ACN

The Lagos State Chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN has warned that the continued threat on the life of former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is real and that Nigerians should take adequate note of it should anything unsavoury happen to him.

The party said it was forced to issue this warning in view of the unrelenting manner the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, had been going about its threat to take Tinubu out by either hook or crook in the hope that such would improve their chances in both the South West and the entire country in the coming election.

A statement by the party, signed by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, said it was disturbed that the henchmen of the PDP were plotting endlessly to both eliminate Tinubu or arrest and frame him up with any ridiculous charge as a way of preventing his active participation in the coming election.

“The party assures the PDP that the elimination of Tinubu or his arrest on flimsy charges will lead to the end of PDP, for we know whom to hold responsible for such act.

“By now, every Nigerian knows that Tinubu constitutes such a scary nightmare to PDP’s reckless audacity to ride rough shod over the entire country. Every Nigerian knows that Tinubu constitutes a real threat to PDP’s penchant for stealing electoral mandates with impunity and doing everything to keep these stolen mandates. Every Nigerian knows that the average PDP member lives on the fear of Tinubu’s electoral value, which is a direct threat to PDP’s own belief.

“When we remember that the PDP does not suffer gladly any threat or obstacle to this devilish inclination to steal electoral mandates, we have reason to take their unrelenting threat to eliminate Tinubu or, manufacture frivolous charges to precipitate his arrest and detention before the next election seriously,” it stated.

Acording to the party, “when we remember how Bola Ige was eliminated when he signified interest to quit the Obasanjo cabinet and rebuild AD in 2001 and when we remember that the prime suspect in his assassination was rewarded with a lofty senate seat even while he was in prison, we must not take lightly the present do or die resolve of the PDP to take out Tinubu and prepare the ground for the mother of all electoral roguery in 2011.

“The circumstances that made our revered Nobel Laureate, Prof, Wole Soyinka to term PDP as the nest of killers are still as current as when he made that damning statement. We must recall how the PDP in 2003, shamelessly rigged elections in Oyo, Ekiti, Ondo, Ogun, among many other states in Nigeria and how the party reduced the 2007 election to a comical joke that still smells before the entire world today just because it wants power through a do or die means.”

“We want to alert that this shameful lust for unearned power is what is driving the present plots hatched against Tinubu and which has now formed the primary business and  action plan of the PDP en route the coming election.

—Kazeem Ugbodaga