Stop spreading falsehood, ACN tells PDP

Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria has warned the state Peoples Democratic Party to stop spreading information that Governor Raji Fashola is threatening non-indigenes in the state.

In a statement on Monday by the state Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Joe Igbokwe, the party challenged Lagos PDP to tender proofs of how non- indigenes of Lagos were threatened.

He said, “We ask Lagos PDP to prove that it is only non-indigenes that operate okada in Lagos if it is desperate to misinform its audience that by telling okada operators to either conform to the law to restrict  .by

 Publicity Secretary, Action Congress of Nigeria,

 Lagos State chapter, Mr. Joe Igbokwe

okada operation to certain roads in Lagos or ship out translates to waging war against non-indigenes.

“To twist the governor’s position that those that constitute threats to law and order in Lagos should either conform or ship out as threat to non-indigenes of Lagos is yet another case of the devilish falsehoods that now serve as anchor to the miserable lots of Lagos PDP.

“Lagos ACN is still waiting to hear the reaction of Lagos PDP to the decision of not less than 10 PDP states to totally ban okada operations in their states. We are yet to hear the response of Lagos PDP to the total ban imposed by the PDP government on okada operations in the Federal Capital Territory if it is now hooked to the okada politics for survival.”

Igbokwe, who wondered why Lagos PDP had always sought the assistance of the Federal Government to descend on the state, noted that Lagos was an autonomous unit of the federation.

He added, “Lagos ACN frowns seriously on the puerile resort of Lagos PDP to always call on President Jonathan to descend on Lagos, as if Lagos is a vassal territory to the PDP and the Federal Government.

“We want Lagos PDP to grow up to the fact that Lagos is an autonomous unit of the Federal Republic of Nigeria whose powers are derived from the federal constitution of Nigeria.”

According to him, if Fashola ever warns Lagosians who constitute menace to others, such warnings are within his constitutional powers as the number one citizen of the state.