The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, on Sunday attacked the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, for asking President Goodluck Jonathan to probe the last Wednesday’s incident, in which a security operative prevented the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, from greeting him at a dinner at the Presidential Villa.
The party also blasted ACN leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, “for imposing his daughter, Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, who is not a full-time trader, to succeed his mother, late Alhaja Abibat Mogaji, as the President-General of the Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men.
Acting National Publicity Secretary, Barrister Tony Caesar Okeke, in a statement on Sunday, described the call by ACN as “irresponsible meddlesomeness and foolish scandal-mongering.”
According to him, ACN and the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, were embittered by the reconciliations ongoing in the PDP.
“The ACN and the CPC are merely embittered by the reconciliations so far achieved in the PDP and seek to use all means to undermine it.
“That is why they are crying wolf where there is none. Protocol issues are understood all over the world.
“Therefore, the demand by the ACN smacks of irresponsible meddlesomeness and foolish scandal-mongering aimed at causing disaffection among our leaders and party members.” he said.
Okeke added that President Goodluck Jonathan has a good relationship with all state governors, including that of Rivers State.
The spokesman, who specially took Tinubu headlong, said the former governor of Lagos State is man who has displayed his despotic tendencies with the installation of his daughter as the leader of traders without recourse to democratic processes.
The statement reads in part: “Nigerians have clearly seen that the so-called democrats and self-styled messiahs in the ACN are indeed wolves in sheep’s skins.
“The ACN leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, who has been parading himself as a democrat has once again shown his despotic tendencies with the installation of his daughter, Mrs. Folashade Tinubu-Ojo, who is not a full-time trader to succeed his mother, late Alhaja Abibat Mogaji, as President-General of the Association of Nigerian Market Women and Men, in utter disregard to democratic principles.
“This shows the level of disdain the ACN and its leaders have for democracy. “It shows the type of leadership that is obtainable within the ACN where members have been gagged just as it indicates what form of leadership Nigerians should expect if such leaders are allowed to hold power at any level in the country.
“We challenge the ACN which always harps on democratic principles to examine this issue and come out with its verdict.
“We also call on Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, to listen to the people and ensure that the right thing is done by allowing the traders to choose their leader through a democratic means.”
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