APC

The All Progressives
Congress (APC) has
insisted that the rallies
being held across the
country by the so-called
Transformation
Ambassadors of Nigeria
(TAN) represent an
assault on the
intelligence and
sensibilities of Nigerians,
at a time of
unprecedented security
and health challenges in
the country.
Responding to the tepid
defence of the
sycophantic rallies that
are being deceptively
powered by the proceeds
of massive corruption
under the clueless and
incompetent Jonathan
Administration, the party
said, in a statement
issued by its National
Publicity Secretary,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in
Lagos on Sunday, that no
amount of inversion of
reasoning by the TAN
foot soldiers can wash
the rallies clean of shame
and disgust.
It said only those
described as 'morons
and sycophants' by Prof.
Wole Soyinka can be
engaging in celebratory
rallies when soldiers are
dying on the Boko
Haram battle front, when
citizens are daily being
dispatched to their
graves by insurgents and
when the country is still
reeling from the
challenge of Ebola that
has claimed many
innocent lives.
APC wondered how the
inauguration of its
regional executives in
Sokoto could be equated
with the rallies being
held across the country
by TAN, which is another
name for the PDP, which
is another name for
shame, incompetence,
cluelessness, cruelty,
insincerity and
insensitivity.
The party said if
President Goodluck
Jonathan had not been
running a government
hallmarked by impunity,
there is no way any
political party would
have brazenly kick-
started electioneering
campaign under the
guise of an ''NGO'' that is
coordinated by the
Secretary to the
Government of the
Federation, Ministers,
State Governors and
other public officials, at
a time like this.
''The PDP-led Federal
Government and its
'NGO' called TAN are
bare-faced liars and
cheats. They have seized
an undue advantage over
every other party by
defying the nation's laws
to start an early
electioneering campaign,
and no one, not even
INEC, dares call them to
order! Little wonder,
their podiums are
collapsing under the
weight of their lies,'' it
said.
APC slammed TAN's self-
serving Director of
Communications Udenta
Udenta for attempting to
pull the wool over the
eyes of Nigerians by
shamelessly justifying the
insane rallies.
''We have the following
posers for the deceptive
and pigs-at-the trough
TAN organizers: If Mr
Udenta and his co-
travelers were parents,
relations or friends of
any of the over 200
missing Chibok
schoolgirls, wouldn't
such TAN rallies offend
their sensibilities? If Mr
Udenta or any of his co-
travelers in TAN had lost
a relation or dear one to
Ebola in Port Harcourt,
won't such a rally in the
same city about the same
time offend their
sensibilities? Can Mr.
Udenta tell Nigerians the
source of funding of
TAN? Can Mr. Udenta tell
Nigerians how much TAN
has spent so far in
canvassing for
Jonathan's re-election or
for that matter how
much it spends daily on
radio jingles, television
and newspapers advert,
billboards etc? Can Mr.
Udenta tender to the
public TAN's audited
account?
''We know Mr. Udenta
has no answers to these
posers, but we have no
iota of doubt that
Nigerians know that TAN
is funded and powered
by the massive
corruption of this
government, including
but not limited to the
missing $20 billion, the
over one trillion fuel
subsidy scam, the
kerosene subsidy scam,
the hundreds of
thousands of barrels of
our crude oil being
stolen daily, the Pension
scam, the Malibu Oil
scandal etc. We also
know through which top
functionaries of
government funds are
funneled to TAN,'' the
party said.
APC said it would not
stop calling for an end to
the TAN rallies until
common sense prevails
and the President, who
waited for an
international
condemnation of his
BringBackJonathan hash
tag before taking action,
is again forced to call his
selfish sycophants to
order.
''Our soldiers are
combating Boko Haram
literally with their bare
hands and under the
most intolerable
conditions and our
government is partying
around town. As we
write, a Nigerian war
plane has been declared
missing in the battle
zone and our
government is
celebrating. Clearly, if a
fraction of the funds TAN
had been expending in
its multi-billion naira
adverts on radio,
television, newspapers,
billboard, online and on
London buses, not to talk
of the mobilization for
rallies, can be made
available to our soldiers,
Boko Haram would have
long been forgotten.
''Again, these times call
for deep reflection and
not for deep throats.
These times call for cool-
headed and decent men
and women to realize
that a nation at war
cannot be celebrating,
because it sends the very
wrong message to the
men and women
deployed to the battle
zone to protect our
nation. This is not about
politics, this is about
common sense,
sensibilitity.