PDP Is Desperately Laundering Violence In Lagos, Says Lagos APC

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has raised the

alarm over the violence the PDP has launched as a campaign strategy in

Lagos. The party said that the increasing spates of violence the PDP has

launched in Lagos will breach the peace and security of Lagos, if law

enforcement agencies continue to turn a blind eye to the excesses of the

party. In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of

the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said it had been inundated by reports of

various acts of violence the PD{ has visited on its party members all over

Lagos as well as the removal of APC campaign posters in various parts of

Lagos. It warned that its tolerance and commitment to play by the rules

should not be misconstrued as weakness as the party members may be forced

to react if the security agencies continue to look the way round as PDP

launders violence in a bid to violently capture Lagos.

“Our party is alarmed that what the PDP wants to plunge a peaceful and

very secured state like Lagos to mindless violence in a bid to capture the

state in view of the negative reception it receives among Lagosians.

Yesterday, there were several reports of PDP instigated violence in many

parts of Lagos and we wonder if this is what the PDP wants to use to

capture the enlightened state of Lagos. Yesterday, in Orile Agege, an APC

member, Mr. Peter Eyitayo was shot dead by thugs of a PDP candidate, Niyi

Raheem and another member is presently undergoing surgery as a result of

gunshot by the same hoodlums unleashed by Niyi Raheem in Agege. This case

is well known to the Divisional Police Officer at Elere Police Station,

Agege, the State Commissioner and the Lagos State Police Command. There

were also reports of attacks launched by PDP thugs in Lagos Island and

some other parts of Lagos. “Also, we want to let the general public know that the PDP has embarked on

a campaign of vandalizing APC posters and bill boards all over Lagos and

we urge Lagosians to be fully vigilant and report and apprehend these

vandals where ever they see them and also make reports to the nearest

police station or our party offices and officials. “We note that the PDP has gone dangerously desperate in view of the

determination of Nigerians all over the country to do away with a party

that has wrecked Nigeria in sixteen years of horrendous leadership. Why

they feel they will vent their frustrations on Lagosians is best known to

them but it is certain that the party wants to subject the state that best

shows their failure to attack and create violence in Lagos as a means of

destabilizing the state. Lagosians will not allow this trick and we urge

them to resist the PDP at every place they launch their tricks.

“We wonder why PDP is not telling Nigerians what the PDP government has

done in Lagos in its sixteen years in power where they corner 52 per cent

of statutory allocations each month with nothing for Lagosians. We note

that all federal roads in Lagos have turned to craters and nightmares

under PDP's watch yet the party has the impudence to deny the universally

acclaimed monumental achievements recorded in all sectors in Lagos for the

past sixteen years. Lagosians should note that by virtue of the huge

resources at its disposal, the PDP federal government is supposed to

replicate ten times everything that had been done by the Lagos State

government in the past sixteen years. But here we are; a party that had

allowed the existing federal infrastructures in Lagos to decay and rot

away is nursing a desire to add Lagos to the huge colony of waste it had

rendered Nigeria in the past sixteen years. “We call on every Lagosian, especially the civil society groups, the

media, the professionals and market associations to condemn the present

predilection to violence by Lagos PDP. We warn that nothing should be made

to either return Lagos to the lawless enclave of violence it had put

behind it or to make Lagosians, enjoying the fruits of good governance, to

resort to violence to deal with the obnoxious inclination of the PDP to

introduce and launch violence in Lagos as a means of capturing Lagos in

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