Tinubu, Aregbesola, Osinbajo tackle PDP at Lagos APC rally
Thousands of members and supporters of the All Progressives Congress, on Saturday, held a ‘one-million-man march’ in Lagos for the Mar...
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Thousands of members and supporters of
the All Progressives Congress, on Saturday, held a ‘one-million-man
march’ in Lagos for the March 28 and April 11 elections.
The march began at Maryland in Ikeja, the city’s capital, at 8.20am.
The train moved from Maryland through Ikorodu Road to Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere.
Those who led the march included former
Governor of Lagos State and national leader of the APC, Senator Bola
Tinubu; Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola; Lagos State House of
Assembly Speaker, Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji; APC governorship candidate in
Lagos, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode; and APC candidate for Lagos-Central
Senatorial District, Senator Oluremi Tinubu.
Others present included Senator Gbenga Ashafa and Mr. Dele Adeleke, among others.
Governor Aregbesola, in his speech said President Goodluck Jonathan has brought misery and bad luck to Nigeria.
Dressed in white jumpsuit and a pair of
trainers to match, the Osun state governor sang that President Jonathan
would be sent packing come March 28 at the presidential poll.
Addressing the gathering at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos State, after the one-million-man
march, Aregbesola who spoke in the Yoruba language compared Jonathan to
the Biblical Jonah in the Bible who brought misery to the mariners in
the ship he boarded before he was thrown overboard.
“That is the Biblical Jonah. The
Nigerian Jonah is President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan was named
Goodluck because his father thought he would bring blessing and
prosperity to the land. God gave him the privilege but he has failed to
do the work God asked him to do. What did the mariners do to Jonah?
“They threw him into the sea. We’re not
going to throw Jonathan into the sea. We are going to use our votes to
carry him back to his village, Otuoke. We have to vote right; we have to
vote for change. We must vote for the APC. Jonathan cannot continue to
rule Nigeria. He has brought bad luck to the country. His name has
changed from Goodluck to bad luck,” Aregbesola said.
Speaking earlier, a national leader of
the APC and former governor of Lagos, Bola Tinubu, stated that the march
was a march for change in the country’s leadership.
Tinubu said, “We are marching for common
sense revolution. I thank you all for marching for change. By now we
would have had change in government but the Federal Government changed
the elections date. This is March, we’ll march for Buhari and Osinbajo.
We started this walk together.”
In his address, the APC vice
presidential candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo called on the audience to
vote out Jonathan. According to him, instead of prosperity, Jonathan and
the PDP have brought poverty on Nigerians.
“May we not have PDP in Nigerian
government again. May we not have PDP again in Aso Villa. May PDP not
take away our fortune and our future. Vote for change come March 28 and
April 11,” Osinbajo said.
The Lagos State governorship candidate
of the APC, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, expressed appreciation for the party’s
supporters for taking part in the walk and criticised the Peoples
Democratic Party-led Federal Government for the six-week postponement of
elections.