Don't Cause Trouble In Lagos, APC Warns Obanikoro

Source: thewillnigeria.com

Urges military to stop illegal engagement of soldiers BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 09, (THEWILL) - The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday warned the Minister of State for Defence, Mr.

Musliu Obanikoro,  not to cause the breach of peace in the state.

The party, which raised the alarm over what it described as the inordinate use of soldiers to cause mayhem and outright brigandage in Lagos, fingered the Minister as the arrowhead of the bid to allegedly use soldiers to cause  mayhem in Lagos.

In a statement signed by the Interim Publicity Secretary of the APC in Lagos, Joe Igbokwe, the party said the latest employment of soldiers to disrupt a state mass housing project in Lagos Island, coming barely a week after such similar perpetration of illegality in Ilubirin is signaling the launching of a state of terror by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led  Federal Government using Obanikoro as the arrowhead.

It warned that Lagosians would be forced to resist such illegality and stop the bizarre development by all legal means at their disposal.

It is now certain that Obanikoro was made a Minister of State for Defence for the sole purpose of deploying illegal military force to cause total mayhem in Lagos.

It is certain that the PDP is bent on disrupting the pace of development in Lagos in the face of its shameful failure in the last 15 years.

'It is certain that PDP and its agents want to arrest the progress and development of Lagos by all means and as such reinforce its own colossal failure in government for 15 awful years.

For us, stopping mass housing schemes on sudden and spurious claims of ownership of some parts of Lagos is wicked.

It is inhuman; it is sadistic and speaks of the character of PDP as a party.

We are sure that Obanikoro and those he is working for do not bank of using such means to win Lagos but to disrupt as much as possible the acclaimed progress of Lagos, which has been sustaining millions of Nigerians and accounting for the biggest chunk of the country's Gross Domestic Product.

'We see the stupid war Obanikoro is waging on Lagos as just an expression of his political failure in Lagos.

He is allowing himself to be used to impede the progress of Lagos as a way of showing his angst against Lagosians for continuously rejecting him in all the elections he has entered into since he joined the retrogressive forces.

We urge Lagosians to take notice of what Obanikoro is doing in Lagos today and ensure that he is not allowed to put a wedge on the progress and interests of Lagos.

'We urge Lagosians to stand up and resist this noxious employment of outlawry to run a parallel government in Lagos,' the statement said.

The Lagos APC therefore called on the military high command to arrest the  trend of using soldiers illegally to cause mayhem in Lagos.

We warn that the military risks being negatively branded if it allows the military to be dragged into prosecuting the selfish political interests of Obanikoro.

We call on the military to urgently address this illegal use of soldiers to perpetrate illegalities by the so-called minister before it plunges Lagos into anarchy and bloodletting.

'We warn Obanikoro and whichever dark interests he serves that enough is enough!,' APC said.