Com. Mark Adebayo, Convener, LADFOCE and two members of his team. |
The issue is generating very huge condemnation from all quarters
as the Lagos Democracy Advancement Forces, LADFOCE, a socio-political group has
called for an end to the alleged dictatorship and political domination of
former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the state.
In
an event attended by Media men and women in Lagos, the Convener of the group,
Comrade Mark Adebayo asserted that “democracy is a concept of collectivity for
the greater number of the people to have a voice and a choice to freely choose
who they wish to govern them.”
According to Comrade Mark, democracy was
never a conceptualization of domination to be merchandised by a few powerful
individuals in the society who allegedly choose to arrogate to themselves the
power of life and death over a people.
Recall that few days ago, news broke out
on social and traditional media about an ongoing rift between the present
Governor of Lagos state, his Excellency, Akinwunmi Ambode and his Godfather and
National Leader of the party, Bola Tinubu over the former’s second term bid.
While
Tinubu’s camp was reported to have settled for another candidate, Babajide
Sanwo-Olu, who is a godson of the National Leader, pacifists have called on the
former governor of Lagos to thread with caution.
Political watchers believe that Tinubu
could lose his place of political ascendancy in the state if the crisis with
the governor was not properly managed.
Addressing a cross section of
journalists, both print and electronic, Comrade Adebayo said, every sensible
Lagosians is tired of what he describes as “persistent claim to Lagos as
Private property” by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu camp.
He said, “The political atmosphere in
Lagos State is currently but unnecessarily overcharged due to the shenanigans
of one individual desperate to maintain a political stranglehold on the state.
It is common knowledge that for the past eleven years it has become a tradition
for the political pendulum of the state to swing according to the whims and
dictates of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is an expert in the politics of
imposition. The situation in Lagos State is beyond what well-meaning Lagosians
should leave to the internal intrigues of the ruling Party.”
According
to Mark, “It is public knowledge that recently both the traditional and social
media have been awash with the rift between the incumbent governor of Lagos
State and Asiwaju Tinubu due to the former’s second term bid and the alleged
disapproval of the latter.
He added that the main concern of his
group is how the rift between the duo is overheating the Lagos polity and if
not nibbed in the bud, how it will negatively impact on governance in the
state. He said, “Although both sides are still struggling to live in denial,
but it has blown into the open that there is a tangible credence to the
political hiatus between the duo”.
Another executive of the group, Comrade
Femi added that, “Lagos State cannot continue to be in the pocket of Asiwaju
Tinubu. 2019 provides an auspicious opportunity for a mass political revolution
by Lagosians to liberate the state from continued political and economic
enslavement.
Lagos
State with a population of almost 30 million people is a mini Nigeria and
cannot continue to pay homage to the insatiable appetite of a political
tarantula.
He said, we shall kick-start a process
of the political revolution in the state immediately. The first stage of the
revolution is to mobilise a minimum of fifty political Parties in Lagos State
to adopt Governor Ambode as their governorship candidate. A contact and liaison
committee has been set up to actualise that project”. He declared.
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