Wednesday, 11 March 2015

Amosu is not a threat to APC - Apc chieftain

A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress in Ogun State, Remi Bakare has said that the alleged planned defection of the state governor to another party would not affect the fortune of the ruling party in the state.
Bakare who stepped down for Amosun in 2011 governorship election on the platform of the defunct Action
Congress of Nigeria, said the party leaders were regretting the action they took by fielding Amosun as the party candidate.
Speaking with  few newsmen  yesterday, in Abeokuta,  over the crisis rocking the party in the state,  Bakare described Amosun as a stranger in the progressives party, accusing the governor of jettisoning  the party manifesto.

According to Bakare who described himself as the  better alternative to Amosun, let me tell you  that there would  probably  not have  been  opposition in Ogun State  if those strangers had not destroyed APC.
” The truth is that,  almost everybody in Ogun State seems  to have just  one common goal and you will be shocked  that if today ,those strangers  decide to leave I can tell you almost four or five times number  that had left the party  will come back to APC.
“Whether we call it crisis or not, the truth is that we have a stranger in   the house and I see the stranger taking leave of the house very soon  when the heat is on, the heat is on already, but , when it is unbearable , the stranger will probably relocate and we will take things  from there”.
While speaking  on the performance of Amosun in the last three years, Bakare, whose governorship posters  have flooded the state capital , said , yes, there  have been  massive spending on roads, but, ask yourself what is the volume of  vehicular traffic in Ogun State that justifies  such that massive construction?
“It  is like  a case of misplaced priority, when we were in Secondary School, in basic  Economy, there is something we call scarcity, choice and scales of  preference , is that what we really need in Ogun State. Why embark on massive  road construction at the expense of education at the expense of  Health. I don’t think that is the  priority, so, he must have his own  reason for choosing that as his own priority, but, that is not what people  need.
“The cost of constructing one road will employ 10, 000 people in the Civil Service and pay them for 10 years. So, there are better things we can deploy our resources on and this will  be the first government I have seen  whereby you have massive  spending going on and not yet impacting on the economy of the state .
“Let me say  this, the opposition within the party is even stronger than the  one outside, the fact remains, he is an outsider and he is  not
implementing the manifesto in the party that elected him, rather, he is  doing what he wants not the party manifesto”, Bakare claimed

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