Bode George: Lagosians deserve better than this APC cabal holding down our people, says ‘I support Jimi Agbaje with total commitment’

 
Party leaders, gentlemen of the press, I have a brief statement to rectify the erroneous impression about our party.
 
I want to make it absolutely clear that this assembly today is about the strengthening of peace and the deepening of amity in Lagos state People’s Democratic Party.
 
We are here to discountenance the deliberate misinformation running riot out there. Contrary to the misleading opinion in some sections of the media, our party is not disrupted by any infighting. We are woven in a united vision, summed up in a thoughtful unanimity of purpose.
 
We are emboldened by a well articulated truth and summative defining purpose and shared beliefs.
 
Yes, we might have had our differences in the past during the strongly contested gubernatorial primary.
But that is now in the past. The contest had been won and lost. We have moved forward.
 
We are now one, indivisible family. There is no rancour in our midst. There is no bitterness or hatred. We are no longer contesting anything with ourselves. Jimmy Agbaje is our unifying governorship candidate. We support him wholeheartedly and with total commitment.
 
The enemy is out there. The contest is now against the monstrous, dictatorial, reckless, godfatherism that has held our state hostage for the past 20 years.
 
Our common enemy is the representative symbol of a party which has virtually appropriated the Lagosian heritage as a personal estate.
 
Our party has now come out on a mission of rescue and salvage. Lagos must be redeemed and unchained from the manacles of APC.
 
We all witnessed the show of shame yesterday when the APC goons murdered five people at their so-called flag off which turned into killing field. Amid the bloodbath, Emmanuel Oladesu, the Political Editor of The Nation Newspaper was hit by a stray bullet. The Correspondent of News Agency of Nigeria, Buhari was openly beaten up. A Correspondent of the Telegraph Newspaper was equally robbed. Hundreds of people were injured.
 
Surely we can’t continue with this madness. We need a real, progressive fundamental change. This is where we stand today. Lagosians deserve better than this arbitrary, undisciplined, aberrational cabal holding down our people. They must be voted out.
 
That is our focus. That is our mission. That is our collective fight and devotion.
 
The reportage in the media about any rift in our fold is a fiction apparently masterminded by the APC.
 
Today our bonds are stronger. Our ideals and visions are more united, sharpened by the need to liberate our state from the present internal colonization by a greedy, monumentally selfish few.
 
Lagos deserves a breath of fresh air. We are the real progressive and sanitizing symbols renewal and a new beginning.
 
Enough of a regime of brazen nepotism and blatant one man-rule.
Our party represents the redeeming alternative.
 
We are moving forward with a vow to bring meaningful enlightenment into the lives of fellow Lagosians. No more burdensome taxation. No more brazen gutting of our treasury. No more criminal cronyism that has reduced our state to serfdom and helplessness.
 
Lagosians must now take their fortunes into their hands with boldness and with assertive alert. This is the preachment we are taking across the nooks and crannies of the state. And we are sure of victory.
 
I thank you gentlemen of the press for this opportunity to put things in proper perspective.
 
 
*Chief Olabode George
Atona Odua of Yorubaland