From Ndubuisi Orji, Abuja
A political pressure group, Patriots of Nigerian Democracy has lambasted the 2023 Labour Party ( LP) governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and other leaders of the party for saying they will take over Lagos State in 2027.
The group, in a statement by its President, Olaolu Esan and Secretary, Abdullahi Rabiu, said it is surprising that leaders of the LP, which berated the deputy speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, for saying the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win Abia in 2027, are also talking of taking over Lagos, which is controlled by the ruling party.
According to the group, “all
hell was let loose recently when the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu in a video that went viral called on the Governor of his own Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti to rejoin APC.
“Kalu came under heavy criticism and attacks by LP and its supporters. They criticized him for speaking his mind. They made Nigerians to see him in bad light as if what he said was a taboo.
“But here we are. Just about one or two weeks afterwards, the same LP leaders assembled in Umuahia, the Abia State capital to issue a quit notice to APC in Lagos.
“So, where is their nobility? Where is their shame? They abandoned governance for politics of 2027. How does that make them the ‘Saints’ of the Nigerian politics? Are they for the people or against the people?
“We had thought that the LP leaders gathered in Umuahia to discuss the biting economy and the solution. We had thought they gathered to tell Nigerians how they will entrench good governance in Abia State but didn’t know their meeting was about strategies to take over Lagos, an APC controlled State.
We want to say that this is very unfortunate. “
