From Noah Ocheni, Lokoja
The Director of Media and Publicity, Kogi State All Progressive Congress Presidential Campaign Council (APC, PCC) Hon. Kingsley Fanwo has described last Saturday’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) presidential Mammoth crowd Rally in Lokoja as rented crowd from seven neighbouring states of the country.
Fanwo who made this remarks while addressing a news conference on Monday in Lokoja said the crowds were an assemblage of “expired politicians and lecture theatre crowd” that would not win the state for the party.
Fanwo who is also the state Commissioner for information said that the confluence stadium, venue of the rally was populated by expired politicians who the people of the state have rejected adding “the umbrella circus did not need anyone to tell them that Kogi people have rejected them”.
“Even though they bused in supporters from outside the state to beef up appearances, the modest crowd was eloquent enough. Crafty camera angles could not hide yawning gaps in the stands and it was painfully obvious that the former ruling party had been fittingly reduced to a shadow of itself in Kogi State over the last 7 years”.
According to him,”What they said would be an overflow rally that would bring our city to a standstill for the day, barely registered on the radar of hardworking Kogites.”
Fanwo said, “Even their diehard members who came in expectations of the usual largesse associated with the party in her heydays became dispirited when the lies started.”
“The rally turned into a farce when people like the former Deputy Governor of the State, Elder Simeon Achuba and the former speaker of the state assembly, Rt Hon. Alfa Imam was repackaged for Atiku as Kogi APC stalwarts who were decamping to the PDP at the rally”. He said.
According to him,”What Atiku and his entourage might not have known is that this is the same Achuba who was impeached from office with ignominy by the state assembly for gross misconduct during the first term of the administration.”
He pointed out that former Deputy Governor rejoined his former bedmates in the PDP ahead of the 2019 general elections and failed to deliver even his own Ward in that year’s presidential, legislative and gubernatorial elections.
“Rt Hon. Alfa Imam, when he was Speaker of the State House of Assembly, at the cusp of being impeached, he pleaded to be allowed to resign. He was obliged and he too left office and our party in 2019. Shortly he decamped to the SDP, another rickety platform in Kogi State where his presence was as ineffectual as his departure was unfelt in the APC.”
According to the APC PCC spokesman, “It soon became clear that the political jesters in Kogi PDP had deliberately lied to their Dubai-based Presidential Candidate and his hangers-on that all projects in Kogi State were done by them.”
