The All Progressives Grand Alliance, Lagos State chapter has warned the Peoples Democratic Party to get ready to lose the state next year if it depends on President Goodluck Jonathan for support.
Chairman of APGA, Lagos State, Campbell Umeh-Nzekwe, said if former President Olusegun Obasanjo- who is a Yoruba man- could not help the PDP win Lagos during his tenure, then it would be impossible for Jonathan, being an Ijaw man, to achieve that feat.
Umeh-Nzekwe, who was the first organising secretary of the Lagos PDP in 1998, said this during while speaking with newsmen on Wednesday.
The party chieftain, however, enjoined the PDP to support an APGA governorship candidate since the party was a more formidable threat to the All Progressives Congress.
He said, “The PDP should stop heating up the political situation in Lagos State because they don’t have the structure; they don’t have the financial capacity to win election in Lagos. As I am talking to you, some of them (aspirants) don’t know their ward chairmen.
“They are just gathering to negotiate national cake, not to win election. It has been their system since 1999. The PDP has only won a House of Assembly seat in Lagos since 1999.
“Their leader, Bode George, has never won his polling unit before and the PDP is his empire. The current chairman, Tunji Shelle, is not a politician. He was George’s subordinate in the navy. There is no way they can win election.
“So, the PDP is just making noise. Their hope is that Jonathan will help them but if Obasanjo, a son of the soil, could not win Lagos State, it would be naive to think that Jonathan, an Ijaw man, can win it for them.”
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