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July 17, 2007
‘AC Chairmen Not Persuaded To Back GNU’
Action Congress (AC) on Monday debunked insinuations that the 36 states chairmen of the party were summoned to Lagos early this month to coerce them into accepting the Government of National Unity (GNU) proposed by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
July 17th, 2007
By Lekan Sanni
Asst News Editor, Lagos
Lagos State Chairman of the party, Henry Oladele Ajomale, at a press briefing, said the position of the party on the unity government is well known to all Nigerians.
According to him, "it is only mischief makers that go about peddling insinuation that the party chairmen were invited to Lagos by former Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu" of the state to be persuaded to support the unity government .
Ajomale said the state party chairmen were only invited to join in the reception organised in honour of both Tinubu and Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) on July 1, pointing out that this was done because Lagos is the only state where the party is in government today.
Ajomale noted that at a meeting in May, the chairmen had proposed that they be invited for the May 29 handover celebrations, being the only state where the party won.
But he said that this could not be done because many people were invited throughout the country for that particular event.
Ajomale said that the chairmen did not hold any meeting with the former governor throughout their two-day-stay in Lagos, adding that the only time they met him was at the open party, which held at the Eko Hotel.
Posted by Publisher at July 17, 2007 02:42 PM
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