BALA MOHAMMED'S CANDOR: A LESSON IN STATESMANSHIP FOR THE SOUR GRAPES OPPOSITION- BY OKOI OBONO-OBLA. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
BALA MOHAMMED'S CANDOR: A LESSON IN STATESMANSHIP FOR THE SOUR GRAPES OPPOSITION By Okoi Obono-Obla Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State deserves unreserved commendation for his rare candour and statesmanship. In an era where opposition politics in Nigeria has been reduced to perpetual wailing, cynicism and playing to the gallery, Bala Mohammed has risen above partisanship to speak truth to power in the most patriotic sense. Despite being the National Leader of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) and a key pillar of his party's presidential ticket, Governor Mohammed did what very few Nigerian politicians dare to do: he publicly appreciated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his bold, courageous and transformative reform agenda. This is leadership. This is maturity. This is putting Nigeria first. President Tinubu has done what others feared to do. He has brought a semblance of order and transparency to the opaque, previously cabal-infested oil and gas sector. Where subsidy fraud...
She won the ticket yesterday thursday at the UPN congress/primary held at the party secretariat Unity Road,Ikeja Lagos,alongside other consensus candidates for Federal House of Assembly.In her acceptance speech,Dupe Abiola declared that she is going to be the first female governor of Lagos state as she will succeed the incumbent Governor Babatunde Fashola.She said that her party,UPN,founded by the Late Obafemi Awolowo and resuscitated by OPC leader Dr Fredrick Fasheun,is prepared to take over as the ruling party in the state.She also claimed that Nigerian's democracy is sitting on the blood of her late husband and other democrats killed during the June 12,1993 struggle,hence she is ready to sustain her husband's democratic legacy and make another history.The Lagosd state Chairman of the party,Femi Ikuomola in his address disclosed that the party has painstakingly picked candidates without shady character,who will not tarnish the image of the party and its leadership.
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