The Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress
of Nigeria, ACN, has reacted to a comment by
the Minister for Information, Labaran Maku, in
which he said the only achievement of Lagos
State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, is
“environmental sanitation”.
Maku made the statement at the 2013
ministerial briefing on the transformation of
the road sector in Nigeria, being part of
activities marking the mid-term achievements
of the administration of President Goodluck
Jonathan.
He went on to say that the good road networks
in Edo and Lagos states were roads
rehabilitated and funded by the Federal
Government, citing Benin Ore road and Benin-
Auchi expressway as practical examples.
But reacting, ACN said that Governor Fashola’s
refusal to honour Maku’s tour of folly remains
the reason why Maku made the nonsensical
statement that Fashola is doing nothing when
every other opinion thinks otherwise.
In a release in Lagos, signed by the State
Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, the party said
that it is ridiculous and senile for a so-called
information minister to demonstrate this low
level of opinion about a globally lauded
government just because Lagos refused to
entertain the kind of banality Maku and his ilk
have employed to extort states in the name of
good governance jamboree.
According to him, “Ordinarily, we would not be
drawn to join issues with Maku because he does
not know what good governance is and will
never recognise one, if he comes in contact
with it. We know that Maku is a professional
jobber and for a man who said he employed
student unionism to live like a king, says of the
moral depravity of the character who is no
more than a jester and praise singer in a
government that has failed in every facet of
governance.
“We know that Maku is merely vending sour
grapes because the Lagos State government
saw through his folly of organising a
programmed revelry in the name of good
governance tour when he had done nothing to
uplift his ministry in the years he had been the
Minister of Information. One would have
expected a parodist like Maku to come to Lagos
to unveil the new Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the
new Lagos-Abeoukuta Expresway, the new
Lagos-Badagty Expressway, the new Aiport
Road, the new Apapa-Oshodi Expressway, the
modern, state of the art schools, hospitals,
modern railway, etc, which his government has
fixed with the whopping 52 per cent monthly
allocation it corners every month. But here we
are, Maku jumped over the death traps which
the so-called federal roads have become in
Lagos to come and play pedestrian PDP politics
in Lagos.
“If Maku in his voluntary blindness, saw only
progress in the environmental sector in Lagos,
can he tell us even one sector his PDP Federal
Government has made a mark in fourteen
sordid years of waste laying in Nigeria? Can he
show us what he has done in the Federal
Ministry of Information for the period he has
been minister? Can Maku tell us any fruitful
achievement, except the ones he conjured in
the heat of his extortion drive, the PDP
governments he has patronised in his tour of
folly did better than the Lagos State
government?
“We challenge Maku that rather than sounding
so incredible to even himself, he should tell
Lagosians and indeed Nigerians those so-called
structures his government built in Lagos from
which Lagos is collecting tolls. We feel it is a
pity that someone that occupies such a position
as Maku has reduced it to his low level by his
infantile desire to take liberty with the truth
because his extorting mission is the worst for
the Lagos State government’s refusal of his tour
of folly.”
Lagos ACN further stated: “One would have
thought that once the Lagos State Government
disallowed his frivolous jamboree of good
governance tour, that Maku would have come
to Lagos to show us what the government he
serves as a chief propagandist has done in the
health sector, the education sector, the security
sector, the science and technology sector and
indeed every other sector in Lagos, especially
as they relate to Lagos. But he did neither of
these because there is nothing Maku and his
government can show for the trillions of naira
it spends every year.
“But Maku, blinded by the fury of his unmet
demand came to Lagos to expose the ignorance
that has made him a misinformation minister
who thrives in singing the praises of a bland
and incompetent administration that has failed
in all spheres of governance.
“Maku came to Lagos to play the blind PDP
politics of denial of the great transformation
going on in Lagos, even when his party’s
governors loudly acclaim these achievements
and have come to understudy some aspects of
Lagos governance. We wish Maku some luck in
this ludicrous mission but we wonder how
Maku can recognise what good governance is
when the government whose praises he blares
has become a huge joke and a piece of ribaldry
among Nigerians.
“Lagos ACN wants to tell Maku to concentrate
on telling Nigerians what the government he is
serving has done with the hefty 52 per cent of
monthly allocations it corners and uses to feed
indolent, incompetent bootlickers like Labaran
Maku himself. We want Maku to stop fooling
himself and extorting state governments on
the pretext of conducting governance tours
when the government he serves has not made
any dent on the many gargantuan problems
that continue to assail the nation.
“Labaran Maku is a poster boy of corruption. He
revealed how he extorted and lived like a king
during his days as a students leader so we
believe his present sour grapes is borne out of
the way and manner the Lagos State
government shunned the revelry he is
mounting all over the states at present.
“In the blind fury of such unrealized dream,
Maku is acting deaf, blind and dumb in
deference of the putrid politics with which his
party has wrecked a well endowed nation but
we want to put him on notice that Lagos is
different from the looting paradise they have
turned the country and the states under their
control to. We want him to know that Lagosians
know what good governance means because
they are feeling and touching it. Lagosians do
not need mercenary extortionists who do not
know what good governance means.”
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