The electioneering campaign of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took a new dimension in Lagos State, yesterday as the two parties held counter rallies in the nation’s commercial capital. While President Goodluck Jonathan led PDP members to Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos to flag off his presidential campaign, the ACN held its rally in four strategic locations in Lagos.

The ACN rally was held almost simultaneously on Volks Ground along Lagos Badagry Expressway, Agege, Gbagada and Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere. The state Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), who is seeking re-election on the platform of the ACN, addressed party supporters at the locations.

Fashola kicked off the rally at Agege before he moved to Gbagada, Surulere and Ojo. He thrilled ACN supporters at Volks Ground in Ojo Local Government Area when he flew into the venue in a helicopter at about 3:15p.m. Local government chairmen, scores of the ACN candidates, party loyalists, market women, youth associations and top government officials who attended the events hailed the governor.
Some ACN chieftains explained that the governor had to use helicopter so that he would be able to touch all the four locations because of traffic congestion in many parts of the state yesterday.

In his address, the governor urged members of the party to use their brooms symbolically to sweep away the footprints of members of the PDP who also held a rally at another location in Lagos.
His words; “You know the most important reason why we cannot trust PDP again. This country is going to make a lot of money in the next few months. You know why? There is crisis in the Middle East - there is crisis in Libya, which is an oil producing state. There is a problem rearing its head in Saudi Arabia. If that problem continues, the price of oil will soar as high as $200 per barrel.

“Now, we have done a budget in this country at $65 per barrel. Oil is already selling above $100 per barrel. It means we are already making excess money of at least $40 million per day. We are selling about two million barrels multiply by $40 per day. Now, if you leave them with that money, they are going to squander it again. For 12 years, they sold $500 billion worth of crude oil. Where is the money?”
Fashola thanked the Lagosians for trooping out in large numbers to participate in the just-concluded voters’ registration exercise, urging them to deliver their over six million votes for the ACN in this year’s general elections.
He declared that he has “no personal grudge against anybody in the opposition party, but I have every dislike, every disagreement with the way they have mismanaged my life and your own life.

“I do not accept that it is impossible for this country to have electricity, I do not accept that. The people who are producing electricity in their countries, they studied the same physics, the same chemistry, and the same mathematics that we studied. They have the same blood flowing in their veins.
“If you have led a country for 12 years, you are promising us more power, but what we are getting is less power. You are promising us bigger economy, but what we are getting is a shrinking economy. You are promising us that you want to resuscitate automobile industry, somebody trying to do that wants to be importing automobile.

“Our party is a party of ideas. I have asked them if they have superior ideas, let them bring it to the market place, let us exchange the ideas. The people of Nigeria are no longer concerned about whether you zone or you do not zone. Your zone will not bring electricity, that is not what the people are concerned about. Your zone will not make the price of kerosene cheaper and that is what is giving them pain. Your zone will not give them better job, that is what is giving me concern.”
Fashola asserted that it was disheartening that importers and exporters could not clear their goods within 24 hours at the port and the port doesn’t work at night, saying ACN was set to bring a turn-around transformation if residents of Lagos could use their six million votes, people of south west could use their 15 million votes and Nigerians at large could vote massively for the party.

He made reference to some of completed roads and those that are under construction in different parts of the former federal capital of the country as well as Iju/Adiyan Water Works as a tip of the ice berg on the dividends of democracy that the ACN-led government would deliver to Nigerians.





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This should not result to a crises

I love his statement with regards to oil.PDP has a lot of greedy people waiting to savor the oil money and leaving nothing for Nigeria.

So what they are fighting for is the oil money and nothing to do with Nigeria's development?.

I thought it is only dull students that repeat class. Fashola, are u now a dull student?

In his address, the governor urged members of the party to use their brooms symbolically to sweep away the footprints of members of the PDP who also held a rally at another location in Lagos.
His words; “You know the most important reason why we cannot trust PDP again. This country is going to make a lot of money in the next few months. You know why? There is crisis in the Middle East - there is crisis in Libya, which is an oil producing state. There is a problem rearing its head in Saudi Arabia. If that problem continues, the price of oil will soar as high as $200 per barrel.

“Now, we have done a budget in this country at $65 per barrel. Oil is already selling above $100 per barrel. It means we are already making excess money of at least $40 million per day. We are selling about two million barrels multiply by $40 per day. Now, if you leave them with that money, they are going to squander it again. For 12 years, they sold $500 billion worth of crude oil. Where is the money?”

Ok we get it --- ITS ALL ABOUT THE OIL,

ACN has no plan and that's the reason they couldn't produce a normal presidential candidate within their party. The last time they got Atiku a failure from another party and this time Ribadu from somewhere not understandable.

china_kobo:

I thought it is only dull students that repeat class.  Fashola, are u now a dull student?

Dats ridiculous of u BRF has challenged GEJ et al to a
debate i think we should know who's dull here

It was Fashola that said that he wont re-run because only dull students repeat class.

nakedall:

ACN has no plan and that's the reason they couldn't produce a normal presidential candidate within their party. The last time they got Atiku a failure from another party and this time Ribadu from somewhere not understandable.

Oh The truth be told what has the PDP led government achieved in the last 12 years Pls i need answers

china_kobo:

It was Fashola that said that he wont re-run because only dull students repeat class.

And those dat makes him a dull student abeg we all know those are political gimmicks

Democracy dividends CANNOT be obtained through ACN - Autocrats Congress of Nigeria- old men imposing their wives, kids, in-laws, relations and maybe even househelps on their party members.
Progress CANNOT come from ACN- Alliance for Corruption in Nigeria with Tinubu as their leader and Achike Udenwa as frontliner.
Shine your eyes, identify, scrutinise, select and mobilise support for your national and state assembly legislator candidates on individual merit basis NOT on party basis.

Mr Fashola stop pointing an accusing finger because the 4 other fingers point to you. Agreed the government of the day is corrupt, according to you but are you not also. 95 percent of roads in Lagos are either riddled with craters or unmotorable when it rains. You commissioned a Iju/Adiyan waterworks without a pipe gallery that would feed water to the populace. LASU is still one of the worst Universities in Nigeria, doctors are still on strike, your public schools are very poor etc Fashola please stop work on your state.

Pardon me i meant and does dat makes him a dull student abeg we all know those are political gimmicks

Felepumpin:

Oh The truth be told what has the PDP led government achieved in the last 12 years Pls i need answers  

Good question dear. The only thing PDP has achieved is LOOTING! LOOTING!! LOOTING!!! AND CELEBRATION OF LOOTING.

Fashola dey look for oil money!!! Fowl don blow we don see the Y.A.N.S.H

He is just pointing u to the danger ahead cos this PDP govt has had such oil boom before and nothing to show for it.And what do u mean that fashola is looking for oil money,na im be FG wey go spend the oil moni

CPC rally in Kaduna just pulled a crowd of about 2 million people, gosh!!! watch AIT and Channels if you doubt me.

@All,
I don't know why some people can not deduce reality from fallacy. We're talking of progress and better economy system but instead of recognising this fact and support the trend of quality leadership that's base on antecedent all some nincompoops busy doing is to condemned the brilliant facts by Gr8 Governor. You know what ? i can't really blame them much it's the system that deliberately twisting some brain upside down the commonsensical is not dictating, brains are outwisted infact some Nigerians reason abnormally. How on air can a citizen of a country claiming Innocent on economy situation of his or her country? At times i begging to doubt the increase in the trend of illiterates. honestly illiterates can be trace with PHD holder in Nigeria, the current upgrade in Nigeria research has been traced and measure with PhD. when you're in a gathering of people with literate illiterate genetic or academic mixture just take your time to distinguish yourself or else they will pollute your system and drag you to their class.
For God sake who doesn't know that Nigeria operates mono-economy? How can one keep hammering on the fact with brilliant analysis by Fash for the sake of trash or because of ethnic menace? Is high time you wake up from dead and face reality.

@ poster

Democracy dividends CANNOT be obtained through ACN - Autocrats Congress of Nigeria- old men imposing their wives, kids, in-laws, relations and maybe even househelps on their party members.      
Progress CANNOT come from ACN- Alliance for Corruption in Nigeria with Tinubu as their leader and Achike Udenwa as frontliner.      
Shine your eyes, identify, scrutinise, select and mobilise support for your national and state assembly legislator candidates on individual merit basis NOT on party basis.
 
, sound like dull student and blind folk, statement, ][s]Democracy dividends CANNOT be obtained through ACN - Autocrats Congress of Nigeria- old men imposing their wives, kids, in-laws, relations and maybe even househelps on their party member[/s], then through PDP!!!! ogun state OBJ impose olurin on PDP (OGD), oyo, akala impose on PDP, enugun, etc now they are in court when other candidate are busy campaning, ode come and see Divided of Democracy in Lagos,

honeric01:

CPC rally in Kaduna just pulled a crowd of about 2 million people, gosh!!! watch AIT and Channels if you doubt me.

Bros ayy, Supply us with updates naaaa!! Don't leave us in the dark here.

spade:

Bros ayy, Supply us with updates naaaa!! Don't leave us in the dark here.

The flag off has closed, men the crowd was unbelievable even to Buhari himself, he was just smiling all through, Bakare was just so surprised by the outcome.

Too bad i didn't have a camera around to take shots from my TV.

Yes its only a dull student that repeat a class,but we all call on Fashola to go for a second term.He didn't fail we all want him to continue his marvelous job.

ACN has nothing to over than the noise and criticism they like to make everyday. They are nothing better than PDP. Both of them are filled with politicians that of the same calibre.

rainbowman:

Mr Fashola stop pointing an accusing finger because the 4 other fingers point to you. Agreed the government of the day is corrupt, according to you but are you not also. 95 percent of roads in Lagos are either riddled with craters or unmotorable when it rains. You commissioned a Iju/Adiyan waterworks without a pipe gallery that would feed water to the populace. LASU is still one of the worst Universities in Nigeria, doctors are still on strike, your public schools are very poor etc Fashola please stop work on your state.

jagajaga analyst! go online & c facts 4 ua slf. lasu is d 9th bst uni in 9ja. topple many fed uni. topple al private unis. nb:i'm nt a lagosian neither do i stay dia bt jst 2 set da records str8. dnt giv a dog a bad name cuz u want 2 hang it. lag is VERY d.ficult 2 govern(d popn' control alone sef, , ).

I can confirm from my base here in kaduna that the rally venue was filled to capacity beyond expectation You should remember that Buhari is a grassroot man here in the North and from what I saw today that if he can get similar spport from other regions then its goodbye to PDP.

Itz on!!

These are real issues being tabled by fashola.

Instead of GEJ mumucious statement "God wants me to rule"

The only achievement GEJ/PDP is passionate about is "go to any filling station from north - south-east-west, you will get fuel at N65 and available", but honestly, how is this  an achievement?
Is GEJ insinuating that OBJ/Yaradua et al should be in jail or be ashamed for failed promise on the same issue for increasing pump price from N23 to N40 - N65 without deliverable for over 12 years?

tayoTFC:

, sound like dull student and blind folk, statement, ][s]Democracy dividends CANNOT be obtained through ACN - Autocrats Congress of Nigeria- old men imposing their wives, kids, in-laws, relations and maybe even househelps on their party member[/s], then through PDP!!!! ogun state OBJ impose olurin on PDP (OGD), oyo, akala impose on PDP, enugun, etc now they are in court when other candidate are busy campaning, ode come and see Divided of Democracy in Lagos,

I did not realise that there are only two parties in Nieria this year  
Abi na only PDP and ACN dey field candidates for national and state assembly legislators in YOUR constituency   

The time has come as Nigerians to address politics as sensible and patriotic citizens. This time last year, I was seen as a fool among colleagues at work anytime I argued that the PDP should give GEJ the chance to rule this country, He's young, he's energetic and his hands arent soiled of corruption. Well, looking back now, i realise they were right: I was a fool. This guys has done practically nothing to improve my life, 12 months after. I do care who our president is come May 2011, but by all means I pray it's not GEJ I am simply not ready for another 48 months of inactivity and dumbass (un)governance). the same promises he made last May, he's making now. Electricity,  healthcare, etc, none achieved. It's an insult on people like me for PDP to have 12 years of (mis)rule and not provide solution to our single biggest economic problem:Power supply. Has ayone gone through the 2011 budget?that's d ultimate! billions of naira to renovate the VP's kitchen, buy "operational" vehicles, etc.   It's absurb!
My belief is that even if GEJ wants to really do things to help the masses, there are too many people with vested interest in his becoming the president that he just cannot afford to do it. We need a clean break from all these. And definitely it's not PDP, the party that celebrated the return of a jailer looter in grand style, that will do this.

PDP is a fraud!