Govs didn’t shun Lagos-Ibadan road reconstruction ceremony – ACN

The Action Congress of Nigeria has described as untrue the claim by the Peoples Democratic Party that the ACN governors in the South-West shunned last week’s commencement of the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by President Goodluck Jonathan.
In a statement in Abuja on Monday, the ACN  National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said only the Governors of Lagos, Oyo and Ogun were invited to the ceremony, hence it was inaccurate to give the impression that all the ACN governors in the South-West were expected to be there.
It said while Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun personally attended the ceremony, the governors of Lagos and Oyo sent their deputies to represent them because both of them were out of the country at the time.

The ACN statement said, “How then could anyone who believes in the truth, and nothing but the truth, infer in a public statement that the governors shunned the ceremony because of politics? How difficult is it for a self-respecting party spokesman to check the veracity of the information at his disposal before feeding such to the public?
“Is it possible that a spokesman for a ruling party does not know that Deputy Governors can stand in for their principals even at statutory meetings like the National Council of State and the National Economic Council? Or does the PDP now believes that peddling outright lies is the ways to go to give its flagging image a rebound?”
The party said the Acting National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Mr. Tony Okeke, had embarrassed his party and its leadership “with the level of ignorance and amateurism he has so far exhibited on the job.”

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