Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, lambasted the
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for holding a rally in celebration of its
recent victory in the Ekiti State governorship election at the Gani
Fawehinmi Park, Ojota, describing the party as ‘inconsistent in its
thinking.’
State chapter of the PDP, last Friday, held what it termed a ‘Thank
you rally’ for the governor-elect of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, at the
Park.
The park was built by the state to immortalise the late Human Rights crusader and Lagos-based Lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN.
Fashola, who spoke at 2014 Tree Planting campaign, with the theme
‘Better life is with trees,’ held in Sangotedo, Eti-Osa Local
Government, said the party which criticized the creation of parks and
the tree planting initiative of the government, had turned the same park
to campaign ground.
The governor, said in 2008 when the state commenced planting of
trees and creation of parks, the opposition party described the
initiative as cosmetic and not for the downtrodden but the elitist in
the state.
According to him, “You will recall that the Gani Fawehinmi Park is
one of the products of this Greening and Tree Planting initiative; there
was no park there before 2008. But our opponents have no shame, in
their unthinking inconsistencies. It was at the same Gani Fawehinmi
Park, Ojota that they now chose to hold their party rally last week.
They lied, they forget what they said, what they complained about, I
urge residents of Lagos, not to believe them.
“Ask them, have they forgotten that the park was cosmetic, have they
now forgotten that the park is elitist, or indeed are they the true
elites? For me, they have shown themselves, up for who they are, a party
that is unworthy of trust and lacking in consistency. Also, in 2012,
when people rallied at that park in Ojota, to protest the anti-people
policy of the subsidy removal by our opponents, early in the New Year;
that was their New Year gift to Nigerians in 2012, people who went there
to protest against this policy were repelled by heavily armed security
personnel.”
Their attitude, the governor said was to “turn security personnel
against the people they are supposed to protect instead of against those
who threaten the people.”
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