APC’S LAI MOHAMMED SHOULD STOP LYING

RE: APC'S LAI MOHAMMED SHOULD STOP LYING

It is not as though we are unaware of the barrage of innuendoes, white lies and sarcastic verbiage employed by Mr. Lai Mohammed, the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in his futile attempt to criminalise our organization, the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN). As a Non-Governmental Organization committed to mobilizing  and galvanizing grassroots participation in governance, we've held back sufficiently from joining issues with an unprincipled but loquacious spokesperson of an opposition political party.

But a lie told repeatedly without challenge is bound to assume the toga of some mischievous "truth".  First, TAN unabashedly dissociates itself from the "Bring Back Jonathan 2015 hash-tag" which indubitably detracts from the Bring Back Our Girls hash-tag as an offensive problematic to the universal campaign to release the Chibok girls abducted by the boko Haram terrorist group some months ago.

TAN has repeatedly told Nigerians and the public at large that it is not a political party but a civil society organization with a self-imposed mandate of showcasing the unparalleled achievements of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. It remains to be disputed that since the past six months, we have dominated the public advocacy space with candour and lucidity of delivery, to the envy and consternation of Lai Mohammed and the APC's front organizations, and all manner of interlopers.

Because of our single-minded determination to deconstruct APC's false narratives about the capacity and competence of President Jonathan in the execution of his national transformation Agenda, we took in our stride APC's warped vision on national sovereignty given its hand in glove connivance with and endorsement of the demonization of the Nigerian state by a section of western imperial media.

In the same way, that  the Chinese, the Europeans, the Russians, and even the South Africans will stoutly defend their national integrity as proud people and stand as principled agents against the theatre of falsehoodconsistently scripted from the polis and slavishly regurgitated by their local errand boys.TAN is a proud and patriotic Nigerian institution constructed to defend not only the legacy of President Goodluck Jonathan, but the integrity of the Nigerian state. In this political war that the APC through Lai Mohammed has levied on TAN and all that we stand for and which we gleefully accept to fight, TAN's only regret is the abandonment of its avowed philosophy of non-recognition of entities outside its principled mandate- a philosophic bent of will that has seen TAN adopt only positive programming in the strategic trajectory of our public advocacy agenda devoid of bitterness, rancour, hate or criticism of other National institutions.

While affirming that the sustained tirade of Lai Mohammed and APC will not distract us from the sublime threshold we operate from, in the defence of the Nigeria possibility, we will challenge, resist and oppose the venoms of hate and insensate self-opinionated arrogance from the band of the Nigerian pseudo-democrats. We will scrutinise the progressive credentials of those who mouth progressive slogans and phrases and place on public record the truth beneath a carefully constructed but decidedly insipient public persona.

In our earlier release, TAN did stress that the journey it hasembarked upon is a journey of national discovery, of celebrating the best that Nigeria is and can even become and summoning the patriotic zeal and mass enthusiasm of our people in confronting the dark forces in our midst, under the watch of President Goodluck Jonathan. TAN does not in any way declaim the existence of National challenges but will continually celebrate our moments of National triumph and accomplishments we will equally deploy all the resources, skills and tools available to us in stating down the narcissistic self-idolatry we find within the ranks of the APC but most noticeably, that define the mind set of Lai Mohammed.

TAN has accepted the APC challenge and just like the late political sage, Zik said in 1978 while declaring his interest to participate in the democratic process of that era "…I have rolled up my sleeves to do battle with the dark demons of political despair and angst, to chase from ring post to ring post the nincompoops and scallywags that pervade the Nation's political space and pummel to submission the noisy rascals that torment him day in,  day out",   TAN will defend the person and office President Goodluck Jonathan. We will celebrate the Nigerian state and will never tire in showcasing our landmark achievements as members of a proud black race. TAN will never allow Nigerian to be guided by the delusive effusions of foreign agents, who value more the tantrums of some western media propagandists than the daily struggle of Nigerians in Oshogbo, Aba, Abeokuta and Kano.

 

Dr.Udenta O. Udenta

Director, Public Communications.

 

11^th September, 2014.