TIRU TAOFEEC KOLAWOLE

LAGOS STATE POLYTECHNIC

SCHOOL OF PART-TIME STUDIES, IKORODU, LAGOS

MASS COMMUNICATION HND II

MATRIC NO:  136072046

A SUCCESSFUL APC RALLY IN LAGOS

 In anticipation of victory of its presidential candidate, the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun decoration and beautification of its national campaign headquarters in Abuja.

The two-storey building,  luxury office where all the campaign plans and activities are plotted suddenly started wearing a new look on Monday with the walls beautifully adorned with colourful ribbons.

I also gathered that the party leadership has commenced procurement of customised T-shirts with various inscriptions in praise of the opposition party and it’s leaders, all in anticipation of the declaration of its Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, as winner of the polls. According the spokesman of the APC presidential campaign, Mallam Garba Shehu, the decoration of the campaign was to reflect the joyous, celebration mood of Nigerians.  As you can see our campaign office has been decorated in line with the celebration of the victory of APC at the polls, This has made the All Progressives Congress (APC) Oshodi Isolo chapter did a rally  on Monday ahead   11^th of April for the Governorship election for Lagos State Governorship candidate.

Lagosians have been enjoined to vote en masse for the governorship candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC), Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Saturday so that Lagos would enjoy more of federal presence, which had been denied it under the out-going Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)-led Federal Government. In a door-to-door campaign embarked upon by the Strike Team, one of the Independent Campaign Groups (ICG) for the election of the APC governorship candidate, Lagos electorate were advised to vote for the APC candidate whose party had already won at the centre for Lagos to continuing enjoying the support of the Federal Government under the present dispensation.


Speaking during the campaign, Director General of the Strike Team, Mr. Tunde Bank-Anthony, said now that the situation had presented itself through the election of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) as the next president of Nigeria on the platform of APC at the federal level, Lagosians can not afford to throw away a golden opportunity of giving Lagos the advantage of enjoying heavy federal presence, and a special status that it deserved. Mr. Bank-Anthony also urged the Lagos electorate to vote for Akinwunmi Ambode based on personal merit and thrust of his campaign anchored on leadership, accountability, good governance, opportunity and service to the people.


The APC campaign manager urged the electorate to see the APC candidate as a brand with outstanding qualities, a seasoned administrator, accountant and financial manager with a remarkable record of achievements in the civil service which spoke volume, positioning him with a wide edge over his closest opponent, the PDP candidate who, he said was a green horn and non-starter in public administration.


He stated that Lagos should not be entrusted into the hands of a candidate that was coming to test run the state, saying he lacked idea and experience of public administration but should vote in Ambode whose administration would put Lagos on auto-cruise. His words: “He is coming in to consolidate and keep building on what outgoing Governor, Babatunde Fashola has achieved in the state,” stating that Lagos is still a work in progress with a development plan already in place till 2025.


He appealed to Lagosians to reject the PDP at the polls and vote en masse for the APC candidate in the governorship election for continuity, stability and progress.