Reacting to what it called “wild and spurious allegations” that Lagos State Governor Tunde Fashola owns 60% of Intercontinental Hotel, the All Progressive Congress has called on the Lagos PDP, manufacturers of the allegation to provide proof.
In a release signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity Secretary of the APC, Joe Igbokwe, the Party said PDP was on the verge of an unstoppable extinction and asked its members to focus more on getting their house in order so they could ever stand a chance at winning credible elections.
The APC said, “we dismiss as empty, spurious and infantile the threat by the crisis-ridden PDP to mobilise Lagosians against Governor Fashola and we dare them to be men enough and live up to their resolve. We wonder how an unpopular party, with few disillusioned members facing monumental division, with a notorious history of corrupt governance and with nothing to show for the huge revenue that had accrued to the country for the past 14 years, can successfully mobilise Lagosians against a governor that had made Lagos a reference point in good governance not only in Nigeria, but also in Africa and, in deed, the entire world.”
“It is horrifying, indeed, highly alarming that a party should shamelessly engage in such dubious, irresponsible and callous peddling of puerile lies for the dubious profit it aims to harvest from this. The ownership of Intercontinental Lagos Hotel is the Milan Group, which is a reputable company with long history of doing business and a verifiable company and ownership structure.
“In establishing this record-breaking hotel, it drew some support from the Lagos State government and Wema Bank. How this translates to Fashola owning 60 per cent of the ownership is best known to the minds of the grim reapers that will not cease from hoping that by sheer con arts, they will corner Lagos and add it to the many states and the federal states their party members had thoroughly wrecked and ran into clear bankruptcy.
“As we await the Lagos PDP to come forward with the proof of their wild and specious allegation, we will not help but point out to Lagosians the dubiety of the characters that represent the PDP in Lagos. They are asking Governor Fashola to declare his assets publicly while they never saw anything wrong with the position of President Jonathan that he won’t give a damn about the general outcry of Nigerians that he declares his assets publicly in the face of the gargantuan corruption that has pervaded the PDP governance of Nigeria,” it stated.
“We want to let the leftovers of the crisis-torn PDP know that Lagosians are far ahead of them and will mete out a worse electoral defeat for a party that has bankrupted Nigeria to the extent that allocations to states are not being paid for the past three months, even when Nigeria still reaps handsomely from the high prices of oil.
“For a party that has left our infrastructure dead, it smacks of naivety to believe that Lagosians are not smart to know that all that the PDP has left Nigeria after 14 years are poverty, misery, insecurity, as well as the array of obscenely rich party men who feed fat from the resources that would have bettered the lots of Nigerians.”
It added that “for a party that has successfully reduced life expectancy in Nigeria from 70 when they came to powder to 42 today and after looting over N200 trillion to now become a thief catcher in Lagos says something about the PDP and what it stands for, which is dubiety and fraud.”