Save Lagos Group raises alarm over planned rally for Tinubu
*Set to organise counter rally, says government funding rally with public funds
An organisation, the Save Lagos Group has raised an alarm over a rally
by some faceless persons being planned for the National Leader of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the Convener, Comrade Adeniyi A.
Sulaiman and Director, Media and Strategy, Comrade Olaolu Oladipo, the
Save Lagos Group alleged that the state government has earmarked a
huge amount of public funds for the rally.
In the statement, the Save Lagos Group also called on the state
government to come out clean on its role in the rally slated to hold
in Lagos on Saturday, saying “Information available to us indicates
the state government has committed a huge amount of money for the
rally.”
The civil society group also queried the rationale behind the rally,
which it stated was not being done for the benefit of the masses of
the state but rather to satisfy the ego of some prominent leaders of
the ruling APC.
According to the statement, “We wonder what benefit would accrue to
the people of the state from Saturday’s rally rather than the fact
that it was organized to massage the ego of prominent leaders of the
APC.
“What is even more confounding to us is the fact that the money or
resources to be deployed would be coming from the pool of taxes paid
by the people of the state who would have loved to see such resources
utilised for developmental purposes rather than what it is being
planned for by the state government.”
The Save Lagos Group has further called on the state government to
desist from such attempt to fritter the state’s resources on the
rally, which it describes as frivolous and self-serving, saying should
the planners of the event go ahead with the rally it would organize
its own counter rally.
“We of the Save Lagos Group are calling on the state government and
the planners of the event to stop the rally, failure to do so would
compel us to organise a counter rally to demonstrate that the motive
of the organizers is far from being very altruistic.” The statement
reads.
On its next moves should the rally goes ahead, Save Lagos Group also
vowed to organise a counter rally of over 5 million residents to
protest what it termed an assault to the collective wellbeing of the
people of the state.
“We will be compelled to call on residents of the state to a mass
protest against attempt to loot their treasury by self serving
politicians who don’t mean well for them and who are out to rob them
of their collective development.” Its reads.
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