Lagos APC to George: mind your business

A chieftain of the Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Bode George, has come under fire for dabbling in what the All Progressives Congress (APC) called a family affair.

The state APC said it was mischievous of the PDP chieftain to see the speck in another person’s eye while having a log in his own eyes.

George had recommended two former Lagos governors – Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Babatunde Fashola – for investigation by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration.

But the APC spokesman, Joe Igbokwe, in a statement yesterday, counselled the PDP chieftain to keep quiet and continue to lick the wounds inflicted on him through the defeat suffered by his party at March 28 and April 11 general elections.

He said the defeat suffered by the PDP at both the federal and state levels would ordinarily have given a genuine party man a food for thought and stops him from meddling into other people’s matter.

The APC spokesman said George, like the Lagos PDP Chairman, Tunji Shelle, has just woken up from a chronic hallucination after suffering a devastating defeat.

The statement reads: “Bode George is yet to come to terms that it is all over for PDP in Nigeria and Lagos. He is yet to believe that Lagos APC has forcefully retired him from active politics for ever in Nigeria and Lagos State.

“Why is Bode George finding it difficult to believe that the game is over for him in Nigerian and Lagos State politics? Who will tell Bode George that nobody takes him serious again in matters of Nigerian politics? Who will persuade Chief Bode George to quit politics now in his own interest?

“What is giving Bode George the courage to believe that President Buhari will probe Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Fashola, who are the real drivers of change in Nigeria because a Bode George said so?

“How can Lagosians forget that Chief George imposed Jimi Agbaje on the state PDP and caused a big crisis at Oregun Lagos where the party conducted its primaries? How can we forget that it was this same Bode George was accused by some hoodlums of being their godfather? Did Bode George know that the President has full knowledge of his dubious activities in Lagos during the campaigns?

“Chief Bode George spoke about the cost of projects in Lagos, but the question is this: what does a hut builder know about Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge? What does a carpenter knows about gold? What does a failed politician know about good governance and service delivery?