APC FURTHER E.X.P.O.S.E.D! #APC Begged Presidency to Retain Lagos - Ogunlewe# In this interview with ENIOLA AKINKUOTU of The Punch Newspaper, a former Minister of Works and PDP leader, Chief Adeseye Ogunlewe, speaks on the partys activities ahead of the 2015 general elections and other national issues. Q: The PDP has never won a governorship election in Lagos. Why do you think the party would win this time around? RESPONSE: The perception that we have never won an election in Lagos State is defective. It has always been three issues. First, the support of the Presidency for us to win in Lagos State has not been too evident. If you look all through the years, there has been this tendency of compromising the interest of the members of the party and a lot of apathy - thinking that the opposition is invincible and that the opposition would support the Presidency in Lagos. Second, is the tendency of the leadership of the opposition to go to Abuja and beg Mr. President to leave Lagos for them and they would bargain. So, they (opposition) are always afraid of losing Lagos because it is their base, it is where they get all their money to fund election throughout Nigeria. So they have the tendency of bargaining with the leadership of the PDP at the top to say we will support you if you leave Lagos for us and that is what always happens. The third reason is violence. There are black spots where people can take ballot papers and they use thugs to intimidate voters in Mushin, Fadeyi, Oshodi and Isolo. They use members of transport workers union to intimidate voters, so there has never been a free and fair election in Lagos State, it is always compromised. All the noise they make in the newspapers is all foolery. Even now, when they know the President is ready to fight for himself and win election, they will go and beg him. That is the way of the opposition, they cannot stand any competition. So, from 2003 to 2007 and 2011, there has been this compromise and begging. If you look at the composition of Lagos State, the voting does not favour them. So, I will appeal to them that they should not beg Mr. President this time around and let us see if they are not going to lose. If you remember the election of 2011, in the House of Representatives and Senate, they (opposition) were losing but because of their contacts in Abuja, they stopped the election at 2pm for no just cause. Was it not curious that it is Lagos alone that stopped election at 2pm? It is all trickery. So, why didnt they allow a level playing field for everybody? Today they will compromise, tomorrow they will beg. Lagos government is the government of one person. MORE TO COME YOUR WAY...
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:04:59 +0000
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