“The truth is incontrovert­ible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” —–Winston Churchill
When the Transformation Am­bassadors of Nigeria (TAN), came to limelight early this year as one of pro-Jonathan groups, some die-hard critics of this administration wrote off TAN as one of those pressure groups that would soon wither away within a particular time frame, but to their utmost chagrin, TAN has not only emerged as number one front­line pro-Jonathan group via its well-funded; researched and mind-illumi­nating jingles and advertorials using numerous media platforms which in­cluded but not limited to: electronic and print media, billboards, flyers, well-printed brochures, etc, which has helped in elucidating the unprec­edented transformational strides of President Jonathan-led administra­tion, but has equally succeeded in renewing the minds of Nigerians through its nationwide mass consci­entization rallies—which enabled the propellers of TAN to galvanize grass-root support for President Jon­athan second term bid through the collection of millions of verifiable signatures and phone numbers, de­manding Mr. President to throw his hat into the ring come 2015.
On seeing the irrefutable suc­cesses recorded by TAN so far, in highlighting the landmark achieve­ments of this present government; at the same time selling President Goodluck Jonathan candidature to the electorates, the APC through its controversial spokesman, Lai Mohammed, started throwing tan­trums at TAN by issuing a red her­ring statement which was targeted at tarnishing the hard-earned image of TAN, by conspicuously trying to ram fabricated falsehood down the throat of Nigerians. APC in its venom-filled statement insisted that the rallies held across the country by TAN represent an assault on the intelligence and sensibilities of Ni­gerians, at a time of insecurity and health challenges.
Mohammed continuing in his propagation of falsehood and myths said, “if President Jonathan had not been running a government hall­marked by impunity, there was no way any party would have begun campaign under the guise of a non-governmental organization (NGO) coordinated by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, min­isters, governors and other public officials. The PDP-led Federal Gov­ernment and its ‘NGO’ called TAN are bare-faced liars and cheats.” Re­sponding to the ranting credited to the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Lai Mohammed, the quintes­sential Director of Communications and Strategy of TAN, Dr. Udenta .O Udenta tongue-lashed the national leadership of APC, describing them as a product of political nincom­poops and scallywags. He noted that castigation of TAN nationwide rallies by the APC were what he termed, “…a classic example of the Talibanization of Nigeria’s politi­cal discourse space.” According to the erudite scholar, Dr. Udenta .O Udenta, not only were the informa­tion contained in Mohammed’s criti­cisms false, but would neither deter them nor succeed in criminalizing their nationwide mass conscientiza­tion rallies, adding that Lai Moham­med’s tantrums will not deter them from accomplishing their set objec­tive. According to him: “The rallies have come to stay and those who don’t like them just have to live with them for the sake of their sanity and move on to other, hopefully, noble political pursuits.”
Dr. Udenta also noted that while they would not be discouraged by the criticisms, it was glaring that the APC was being pushed by inability to construct a platform that will give TAN a run for its money, energy and efforts.”
In the noble quest to substantiate the incontrovertibility of impregna­ble truth marshaled out by Dr. Uden­ta, to puncture the ill-conceived fallacies being dished out by APC’s propagandist, Lai Mohammed, Ni­gerians would like the APC spokes­man to provide well-thought-out answers to the following thought-provoking; burning questions rag­ing inn the minds of Nigerians: out of over eight thousand pro-Jonathan groups rooting for the re-election of President Jonathan, why Moham­med singled-out TAN to pour out his vituperations and frustration on? Is APC as a lily-livered party, being intimidated by TAN’s over 45 tele­vision jingles broadcast over 4,000 times by four of Nigerian’s lead­ing stations, countless radio jingles and over 250,000 copies of its rally brochures containing pictures, facts and figures of President Jonathan’s National Transformation Agenda in living action? Is this not a pathetic sign of conceding defeat before 2015 election has begun? APC has insinu­ated that the nationwide zonal rallies being organized by TAN would en­courage the spread of Ebola Virus; can APC explain to Nigerians the difference between religious gather­ings like crusades and the ones be­ing coordinated by TAN? Has APC, for once, called for the closure of churches and mosques because of Ebola Virus? Why using the same illogical reason to call for the stop­page of rallies being held by TAN?
On the issue of funding of TAN and its activities, which APC’s vu­vuzela has been using to disturb Nigerian’s serenity, Dr. Udenta re­sponded by saying, “Lai Mohammed and the APC have made so much noise about the sources of TAN’s financing without providing one shred of evidence to back up the tor­rents of abuses, insinuations, innu­endoes, and outright accusation that flow steadily from their very voluble and fertile imagination. The fact re­mains that TAN has neither sought nor received a Kobo from the Fed­eral Government, all its ministries, agencies or department in executing its programmes and projects.”
In the foregoing context, Trans­formation Ambassadors of Nigerian (TAN), has not only succeeded in sending jitters down the nervous spine of the APC, but has torpedoed APC’s imaginary plan to take over the seat of power come 2015.
Dr. Udenta threw down the gaunt­let when he said, “In spite of all the facts we reeled out, we are yet to see just one counter electronic media programming attacking our well-researched documentation of devel­opments occurring in the different national sectors in the past three and half years, or just one OP-ED refuting the veracity of our presen­tations.”

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