Tinubu sets agenda for Lagos APC Congress, says no chance for fourth term seekers

Any member of the executive of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State at the Ward, Local government and State level who has held office for more than two terms will not be eligible to contest in the forth coming congress of the party in the state.

This is the position of the National Leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who said the party was poised to give new people opportunity to lead the people and prove their capacity to lead within the party.

Tinubu, who said this at the stakeholders meeting, held at the party secretariat on Acme Road, Ikeja, yesterday, explained that there is need to inject new brains in the running of the party.

“We commend the national leadership in Abuja to do a good job, now to all of you in Lagos, I want to appeal to you, I have been seeing a lot of things Asiwaju belt, Ambode tops, caps and all sort, now those who want progress must want it for a reason right?

“We all want progress, but there are some in the party who have spent third term at the ward and local government level, they have even spent four terms at the state level, we thank them, there are some others that have been crawling and would like to walk.

“That is how it would be done, once you have spent eight, ten, twelve years at the ward, LGA and the state then you have tried, we thank you. They should just give breathing space we are begging them, for several times we have never lost an election during their tenure, they’ve all worked and given us victory, give them a big round of applause, but they should give us space for new players to come on board, new ideas, new breed, new development, new opportunity.

“Those who have spent only one term, the leadership would want to decide that with you, one good term deserves another. So that one is a matter for the local government to decide,” he said.

The National Leader stated that any ward or local government where the Congress is disrupted, the result of such congress would be cancelled.

According to him, “Committee members inaugurated yesterday headed by a very reliable character Governor Badaru of Jigawa, we believe that this congress will go well, free and fair because of his character, he has done great things, therefore we trust him well, so there would be congress, this congress is a congress of unity, a unifier, it is a unification congress for all of you, four years ago we conducted a congress, isn’t it?

“We did not kill or injure anybody, we elected our officers and we elected a new Governor, we elected a new President and we sent them to Abuja.

Speaking on the crisis in Alimosho wing of the APC, Tinubu said that the warring groups should submit their letter of complaint to the chairman of the party in the state, Chief Henry Ajomale, stressing further that leadership would look into the matter justly.

“We keep the government here, now is another congress, all of you particularly Alimosho, I want to see the leadership of Alimosho, the two of them writing open letters, I read all your letters, I want to see all of you leaders with copies of the open letters you have written, bring it to Ajomale, he would give me and I will give you a date to come back and we would talk. The women here please don’t be annoyed is a fight between rivals it is hard to fight.

“Surulere, why did you allow PDP win in your area, what is the traitor doing in your area? You allowed the rat called PDP to enter your house, we are talking about the congress not yet talking about candidature now, those doing that are putting cart before the horse, they don’t know anything, they are mischief makers, we have not yet talked about primaries you are talking about candidate, that is why you are always cheated, when you are not fighting wisely like we do and always winning, had it been a noisy strategy like your’s one would have just been a perpetual loser.

“We are All Progressives Congress abi? APC, it is the turn of the C-Congress, we have called all of you here and we are now left with the congress, from the ward congress, local government congress and the delegates and we have been observing it, this is the fourth year that we have merged parties together to form APC, we went to fight for congress in Abuja, we fought for it, we got it,” he said.