By Joe Igbokwe.
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has charged the Lagos DPA to grow up and cease playing kindergarten politics with issues so as to shore up its miserable political standing in Lagos . The party was reacting to DPA’s laughable and infantile allegation that the Fashola regime was responsible for the rating of Lagos as one of the worst livable cities in the world by an international intelligence magazine.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Publicity Secretary of the AC, Joe Igbokwe, the party chided on what remains of the DPA for trying desperately to twist an issue it knows dates back to the degradation of the country by marauders in government and which the Fashola regime is trying to correct with the hope that it will cash in on it. It says that desperation has a limit and that when it comes in the form of engaging in puerile false propaganda for effects, it becomes clearly a case of infantile opportunism of the type the DPA is known for.
“We have no reason to quarrel with the so-called rating that has added fire to DPA’s penchant to engage in futile opportunistic politics but we are clearly shocked at the degree the DPA in Lagos is ready to go to advertise its desperation to stand against the current and present a super performing government in bad lights before the very people who have acknowledged the stellar performance of the present government. Lagos AC is not ready to engage the Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) on its rating that has fired DPA’s latest pedestrian zeal, we would have Lagos DPA to tell Lagosians the criteria employed in reaching this so-called rating. Again, we would have loved DPA to tell Lagosians what the situation was, what the rating was and whether there had been improvement or regression in the past ten years before the AC government berthed in Lagos .
“While we note that Lagos DPA thrives on sensationally cashing in on issues from a very narrow, selfish and restricted perspective, we want them to know that such issues as the latest rating have to be taken in context with the general picture elsewhere in Nigeria . Are other cities, including those controlled by DPA’s allies more livable than Lagos ? What indices were employed in arriving at the latest rating and how applicable are they to other parts of the country? Is Lagos unlivable while Port Harcourt , Ibadan , Abuja , Kano , Enugu , Owerri, Kano . Kaduna , Jos are livable? Let the DPA provide answers to these posers before it opens its mouth in shameful opportunism to paint a regime that so far, remains the best and the most acknowledged in Nigeria in bad lights. If the other aforementioned cities are not more livable than Lagos , as is obviously the case, does this translate to the lie that Fashola has taken Lagos back as the DPA were struggling to make Nigerians believe?
“We believe that assessing what Fashola is doing to make Lagos livable will necessarily factor what the situation was before he came and what obtains in other parts of the country. We believe that Lagos DPA would have tried, even from an abysmally low level, to tell Nigerians the kind of pressure Lagos, which has become an oasis for other Nigerians, faces vis a vis other cities in Nigeria, the population pressure and the picture in other states in Nigeria. it is convenient for Lagos DPA in its desperation, to ignore these facts and try to make a political capital from the sensationalism in the story.
“Lagos AC will not join issues with what calls itself Lagos DPA on the plethora of issues it feels the Fashola regime should tackle before it sheds its induced self-blindness because the government is doing all it is doing to the satisfaction of not only Lagosians but other Nigerians. It is easier for the impaired to see the monumental developments in Lagos at present as planting flowers and trees. It is easier for anyone that is stranded on the lonely stretch of denial to see what the government is doing in Lagos presently as media razzmatazz and such other nonsensical forgeries of insane minds but Lagosians and Nigerians are no fools. Like the blind men that went to see an elephant, DPA and the few people that have sworn to be permanently blind to the great phenomenon in Lagos can go on and fool themselves that what the Fashola government is doing in Lagos is planting trees and flowers and media propaganda. They are racing against themselves in a game they are woeful and pitiable losers. We can only wish Lagos DPA a merry voyage in self-foolery and self-induced blindness. Lagosians can discern rabid desperation and awful propaganda from real performance and stellar achievements and that is what has made the toiling of the one-man Lagos DPA an effort in futility.
“Lagos AC wants DPA to grow up to the fact that it can never achieve anything by living in self denial of what the present regime is doing in Lagos . We want the DPA to accept a fact it can never change by denying its existence. The New Lagos is real and we are happy that the DPA cannot change this fact by its selective propaganda.”
Joe Igbokwe.
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos AC.
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