Tinubu, Aregbesola, Osinbajo tackle PDP at Lagos APC rally

Thousands of members and supporters of
the All Progressives Congress, on
Saturday, held a ‘one-million-man march’
in Lagos for the March 28 and April 11
elections.
The march began at Maryland in Ikeja, the
city’s capital, at 8.20am.
The train moved from Maryland through
Ikorodu Road to Teslim Balogun Stadium
in Surulere.
Those who led the march included former
Governor of Lagos State and national
leader of the APC, Senator Bola Tinubu;
Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola;
Lagos State House of Assembly Speaker,
Mr. Adeyemi Ikuforiji; APC governorship
candidate in Lagos, Mr. Akinwunmi
Ambode; and APC candidate for Lagos-
Central Senatorial District, Senator
Oluremi Tinubu.
Others present included Senator Gbenga
Ashafa and Mr. Dele Adeleke, among
others.

Governor Aregbesola, in his speech said
President Goodluck Jonathan has brought
misery and bad luck to Nigeria.
Dressed in white jumpsuit and a pair of
trainers to match, the Osun state
governor sang that President Jonathan
would be sent packing come March 28 at
the presidential poll.

Addressing the gathering at the Teslim
Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos State,
after the one-million-man march,
Aregbesola who spoke in the Yoruba
language compared Jonathan to the
Biblical Jonah in the Bible who brought
misery to the mariners in the ship he
boarded before he was thrown
overboard.

“That is the Biblical Jonah. The Nigerian
Jonah is President Goodluck Jonathan.
Jonathan was named Goodluck because
his father thought he would bring
blessing and prosperity to the land.

God
gave him the privilege but he has failed
to do the work God asked him to do. What
did the mariners do to Jonah?
“They threw him into the sea. We’re not
going to throw Jonathan into the sea. We
are going to use our votes to carry him
back to his village, Otuoke. We have to
vote right; we have to vote for change.

We
must vote for the APC. Jonathan cannot
continue to rule Nigeria. He has brought
bad luck to the country. His name has
changed from Goodluck to bad luck,”
Aregbesola said.
Speaking earlier, a national leader of the
APC and former governor of Lagos, Bola
Tinubu, stated that the march was a
march for change in the country’s
leadership.
Tinubu said, “We are marching for
common sense revolution. I thank you all
for marching for change. By now we
would have had change in government
but the Federal Government changed the
elections date. This is March, we’ll march
for Buhari and Osinbajo. We started this
walk together.”

In his address, the APC vice presidential
candidate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo called on
the audience to vote out Jonathan.
According to him, instead of prosperity,
Jonathan and the PDP have brought
poverty on Nigerians.
“May we not have PDP in Nigerian
government again. May we not have PDP
again in Aso Villa. May PDP not take away
our fortune and our future. Vote for
change come March 28 and April 11,”
Osinbajo said.

The Lagos State governorship candidate of
the APC, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode,
expressed appreciation for the party’s
supporters for taking part in the walk and
criticised the Peoples Democratic Party-
led Federal Government for the six-week
postponement of elections.