Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has ruled out the possibility of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) taking over the reins of power in the Centre of Excellence.
It said the increasing cases of corruption, impunity and illegality the PDP was perpetrating and with which it was denting the image of the country would make any suggestion of a PDP challenge for Lagos unfeasible.
The party said having had a responsible, proactive and transparent government that had yielded innumerable dividends for Nigerians in 16 years, it would be suicidal for Lagosians to desire a party allegedly noted for corruption.
In a release by the Publicity Secretary of APC in Lagos State, Joe Igbokwe, the party said the recent arrest of a private jet smuggling $9.3 million by South African authorities and the laughable way the President Goodluck Jonathan-led government wanted to sweep the issue under the carpet showed that PDP was remorselessly committed to stealing resources that would have bettered the country.
“For some time now, the PDP in Lagos has been hallucinating on taking over power. Lagosians that have witnessed responsible governance that has elevated Lagos from the slum President Olusegun Obasanjo described it 13 years ago to Africa’s fifth largest economy cannot but wonder what fires PDP’s recent optimism if not the wish that somehow it will bring its notorious ability to rig elections in the country to its rich list of vassal territories.
“Since 1999, Nigeria, as the sixth largest producer of oil in the world has harvested over N150 trillion from oil alone. This is enough to make every Nigerian rich, as is the case with every other major oil-producing nation on earth. But the reverse is the case in Nigeria, in the hands of the PDP governance of the country. Even as Nigerians pay the highest price for petroleum products among other oil producers, our roads remain the worst; Nigeria has the third largest population of poor people in the world, as over 140 of the estimated 165 million Nigerians live below the poverty level, according to World Bank statistics,” Igbokwe said.
He said today, UNICEF ranked the country as having the second highest infant death rate in the world, regretting that the medical state was so terrible that the nation’s so-called leaders jet to foreign countries to treat catarrh.

Why Lagosians’ll not accept PDP –Igbokwe