ACN crying wolf over Jonathan’s Lagos visit, says Abati

Nigeria’s Presidency has described the allegation by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the Action Congress of Nigeria that the President Jonathan’s visit to Lagos on Thursday was designed to frustrate a planned Action Congress of Nigeria convention scheduled for the same day as baseless.

In a statement issued in response to the claim, presidential spokesperson, Reuben Abati described the assertion by Mohammed in a letter allegedly written to Governor Fashola as “not only baseless, but another in the series of ‘wolf crying’ that has become the sole strategy and pre-occupation of the ACN. It is clearly a deliberate, further attempt to undermine, ridicule and debase the office of the President of the Federal Republic”.

The presidency further clarified that the President Jonathan is only transiting through Lagos tomorrow on his way to the commissioning of the WEMPCO Cold Roll Steel Plant in Ibafo, Ogun State.

“In point of fact, President Jonathan’s visit tomorrow which was scheduled long before the ACN convention will have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the convention as he will only touchdown at the airport, transit to Ibafo (miles away from the ACN convention venue) by chopper and return to the airport the same way for his flight back to Abuja”, Abati added.