THE CLASH BETWEEN AMBODE AND TINUBU SHOWS THAT LAGOS STATE AND NIGERIA IS RUN DICTATORIALLY BY TINY CLIQUE

NO SYMPATHY FOR AMBODE! NO SUPPORT FOR TINUBU!!

JOIN, BUILD AND VOTE SOCIALIST PARTY OF NIGERIA TO END PROLONGED YEARS OF MISRULE IN LAGOS STATE!!!

PRESS STATEMENT

 

We of the Lagos State Chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) call on the mass of the working people in Lagos State not to give sympathy to Akinwumi Ambode, the current Governor of Lagos State in his clash with his "godfather", Bola Ahmed Tinubu nor give support to the latter himself in the quest to install in power another stooge. Since 1999, after being elected and sworn in as the first elected Governor of Lagos State under the current Fourth Republic dispensation, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has plunged Lagos State into prolonged years of MISRULE through fraudulent self-succession in power and installation of his cronies as Governors of the state. Under these successive regimes, huge public assets including landed and building properties, government acquisitions and holdings were expropriated as personal properties by Bola Ahmed Tinubu. For us in the SPN, the situation has not been different under the current Akinwumi Ambode-led regime. 

The struggle between the Mandate Group loyal to Tinubu and Governor Ambode is so much about business/profit interests of the contending forces of the ruling elites in Lagos. This can be further confirmed by sources who spoke with the Daily independent which goes thus: “A leader in the Mandate Group said the Governor’s fate had been sealed a long time ago after he failed to address the complaints and grievances of party leaders whose economic lifelines have been gravely affected by his policies”. 

The situation further stresses the grave autocracy in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party in Lagos State which is also being continually demonstrated by their representatives in government, including the Ambode government itself, especially with the example of demolitions of communities/markets without compensations and the repression of the genuine protests of the ordinary people of Lagos state over the outrageously illegal Land Use Charge he imposed earlier in his administration. The godfatherism within the Lagos state political elite does not vindicate any of the bourgeois establishment political parties including the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). This clearly shows the monstrous dictatorship that exists in Lagos and it is typical of bourgeois politics wherein a tiny organized mafias dictating the affairs and looting of collective resources in the process.  

The SPN states clearly that neither Sanwo-Olu nor Ambode represents a future that will make Lagos work for the mass of its poor working people given the fact that they both represent the wishes and aspiration of big business and the money bag. 

The SPN will stand in the Lagos State elections in 2019 and we urge the people of Lagos state to vote for our pro-working class party with the programme to liberate the workers, youths and artisans in Lagos State. The SPN will be contesting with a candidate who would only take the salary of the average professional worker, so as to be able to live in and relate to the realities of the people of Lagos. We are raising a programme that will see to massive investment in basic amenities and the transparent usage of public works to carry out the construction of more schools, more hospitals, and more good roads, amongst others, instead of the corrupt inflated and outrageous contract system that the privileged wealthy few share amongst themselves.

SIGNED

Rufus Olusesan                                                                        Shoyombo M.K

Chairman                                                                                           Publicity Secretary