The Lagos State
chapter of the All Progressives Congress has described as laughable and
disoriented the recent charge by Lagos PDP that the State Assembly is
not alive to its responsibilities because it allegedly passing anti
smoking law and law on indecent dressing at the expense of more pressing
bills.
The party said
that apart from the pettiness and idleness that afflict Lagos PDP, the
party continues to demonstrate a worrying degree of ignorance of both
the working of government and the activities of the government it
purports to oppose through uncoordinated press releases.
In a release in
Lagos, signed by the Lagos State Interim Publicity Secretary of the
APC, Joe Igbokwe, the party said that by alleging that the Lagos State
Assembly passed a non existing law on indecent dressing, the state PDP
is demonstrating a bare understanding of what goes on in Lagos apart
from its bizarre obsession with making lie-filled insinuations with the
hope that such will help its pitiable political fate.
“We wonder
where PDP got the information about Lagos State House of Assembly
passing laws on indecent dressing. To the best of our knowledge of
that of Lagosians, there was no such bill tabled, debated and passed by
the Lagos House of Assembly. Mindful of the fact that such bill could
only exist in the fertile imagination of the PDP, we advise Lagosians to
be careful in devouring the lies, the fabrications and the gossip that
spew from the Lagos chapter of the PDP.
“ For purposes
of clarity, we state that the State Assembly tabled and debated and
passed the anti public smoking bill into law in consonance with
worldwide concern about public smoking. It is a general worldwide trend
to restrict smoking outside of the public space given the well known
health hazards associated with smoking, both for smokers and non
smokers. We wonder why a party that professes a hypocritical concern for
the welfare of the Nigerian people should quarrel with this well
received and well timed law, if not to boost its non existent political
strength.
There was no
bill on indecent dressing tabled or debated in the Lagos State House of
Assembly. The Lagos State Governor issued an executive directive that
workers and those who have business to do within the State House Alausa
should dress decently or stay clear of the government offices. What
actually does the PDP have against restriction on indecent dressing?
“Lagos APC
would not be drawn into the idyllic allegation that the State Assembly
is not discharging its duties well. That is for Lagosians to determine
and what better way to determine it than the steady march of progress
going on in Lagos for many years now. Perhaps, the PDP is expecting a
situation where the state assembly becomes its stooge in its wish that
Lagos be locked down in petty quarrel between the executive and
legislative arms of government.
Lagos PDP is
just being a disappointed scarecrow in its assessment of Lagos State
Assembly and no serious person will give its pejorative assessment any
second look. We rather advice Lagos PDP to stop ridiculing itself by its
hare brained effort to sow mischief and rancor where they is none just
because it is desperately in need of political capital to cash.
“The Lagos
State House of Assembly is an active and very responsible legislature,
peopled by men and women of high integrity and learning and it is
discharging its legislative duties professionally. We state, without
equivocation that the Lagos State Assembly is the most competent and
active in Nigeria and this flows from the sophistication of Lagosians
who cannot be represented by nit wits and dullards, the type the PDP, as
a party is noted for producing.
We are happy
that Lagosians are savouring such dividends of legislative diligence and
competence and that the gossips and antics of Lagos PDP will neither
change nor stop the assembly from continuing to carry outs its right and
proper legislative duties.”
Joe Igbokwe.
Interim Publicity Secretary,
Lagos APC.
No comments:
Post a Comment