January 21, 2009
The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress has condemned the meeting between the former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. The party sees the meeting as rash and borne out of self interest than the interest of the country and says it disapproves of such meetings which do not take the feelings of the long-suffering Nigerians who are victims of Obasanjo’s misrule between 1999 and 2007.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the party’s Lagos State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, Lagos Ac warns Atiku to be wary of his meeting with Obasanjo as such stands to create the impression that he is not a principled politician who is governed by self-interest than the interests of all Nigerians.
“While we don’t intend to question Atiku’s rights to meet and have political deals with whoever he wishes, we insist that such should not be done at the expense of others with whom he fought and prevented the attempt and efforts of the former president to perpetuate himself in power. We see any meeting with such a pathological violator of agreements and honour as Obasanjo as just another attempt to play on the intelligence of Nigerians who joined to fight the self-perpetuation project of Obasanjo.
“It is our belief that Alhaji Atiku should be very careful in whom he meets because his every move stands to be understood and interpreted on how it injures the commitment that drove the epic fight against the perpetuation and sit-tight syndrome Obasanjo prosecuted as his disastrous reign tailed to an end. We see his recent meeting with Obasanjo as not only ill-informed but just another misguided effort to promote the same self-interest of the duo, which landed Nigeria where it is today. It is therefore totally unacceptable to us and the earlier Atiku throws more light on why he went to meet with Obasanjo and comes clearer, the better for him and whatever political interest he was purportedly pursuing.
“The pitiable aspect is that Atiku is warming to an Obasanjo who has been rendered a political liability and recluse, with a moral quotient that does not measure to a dime when he is being looked up to play a critical role in sustaining the fight against the present state of political confusion and charade, which Obasanjo inflicted on Nigeria in his woeful eight years in power. Atiku is susceptibly building a political future around a political leper and a confirmed underachiever and we cannot but wish him the best in this endeavor. But we warn that the AC will spare nothing in fighting him should he succeed in enlisting in this school of dubiety that has ruined Nigeria.
“At the end of day, Lagos AC believes that the bane of Nigerian politics is this penchant for so-called politicians to seek short cuts to power. This has succeeded in rendering what is known as politics in Nigeria as one borderless cannibalistic affair where the end justifies the means. This has been the philosophy that drives Obasanjo and PDP’s shameless destruction and corruption of the country’s laughable political system. It is what is suspected to be behind Atiku’s meeting with Obasanjo and we warn them to beware of the wrath of the Nigerian people as they promote their selfish interests.”
Joe Igbokwe.
Publicity Secretary,
Lagos AC.
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