ACN Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande
The Action Congress of Nigeria on Monday described as a ‘pipe dream’ and an ‘unnecessary dissipation of energy’ President Goodluck Jonathan’s exhortation to his platform, the Peoples Democratic Party, to win Lagos in the 2011 elections.
Jonathan had during a meeting with PDP stakehodlers in Ibadan, Oyo State on Sunday, said he was sad at the loss of Ekiti, Ondo and Osun states to opposition parties, noting that efforts must be made to regain them in future elections. He also urged the party to strive to snatch Lagos State from the Action Congress in the 2011 poll.
However, in a statement issued on Monday by the ACN National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party advised the President to focus on the ‘uphill task’ of preventing Oyo and Ogun states from slipping away from the PDP’s control in the elections.
It said, “The PDP’s hope of winning Lagos is best captured in the travails of a leper who, after managing to hold on to the few bean cakes he had just purchased, was asked to take some bonus cakes with him. Of course, he replied that the benevolent seller should pray for him to even be able to take home the ones he had just purchased, instead of adding more!
“Mr. President, no one who has ever tasted the honey of good governance, that the ACN government in Lagos and other states have been dishing out to the people, will opt for the bitter pill of bad governance that has been the lot of the PDP at all levels of governance.
Source:Punch
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