Lagos not for political apprentices, cannot be grabbed – APC replies ADC

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday knowledgeable the African Democratic Congress (ADC) that it will possibly’t win any election within the state.

Mogaji Seye Oladejo, the spokesman of APC within the state, warned the ADC that Lagos State just isn’t for political apprentices and isn’t up for grabs.

Oladejo described ADC’s declare of taking Lagos State as a “political fantasy,” stressing {that a} social gathering that can’t maintain a worthwhile ward assembly is now out of the blue searching for “residents’ cooperation” to take over a state globally acknowledged as Nigeria’s mannequin for sustained governance, innovation, and management.

In an announcement he signed, Oladejo mentioned: “Let it’s said clearly: Lagos just isn’t a laboratory for political apprentices. Lagos just isn’t up for grabs. And Lagos is actually not a charity undertaking for emergency events searching for relevance by means of laughable headlines.

“The ADC’s posturing is nothing however a comical try to inflate a political balloon with the recent air of wishful considering. A celebration with out buildings, with out concepts, with out credible candidates, and with out electoral footprints can’t and won’t take over a state constructed by means of a long time of imaginative and prescient, continuity, competence, and unmatched efficiency.”

Oladejo mentioned the ADC ought to first take over its polling items earlier than speaking about Lagos State.

He mentioned: “In 2023 and even earlier than then, the ADC struggled to fill a bus cease with its total membership. The identical social gathering is now promising to overrun a state with over 20 million folks, world-class infrastructure, and essentially the most subtle citizens in Nigeria. Certainly, there needs to be limits to political comedy.

“We encourage the ADC to first take inner attendance at its subsequent social gathering assembly. In the event that they obtain a quorum, maybe then they’ll graduate to contesting councillorship seats earlier than dreaming of Alausa.”