2015: We’re Set For Battle – APC Leaders

[Shola Sholaz]

Opposition must work harder, says Aliyu Leading figures in the emerging mega-opposition political party, All Progressives Congress, APC, Monday, vowed to make sacrifices to dethrone Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over what they claimed was the legacy of waste and wantonness inspired by PDP.
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They spoke even as Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and his Niger State counterpart, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, bickered over the prospects of PDP ruling the country for 60 years.
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Governor Aliyu nevertheless agreed that PDP would need to draw lessons from opposition parties for it to propound better policies for the country.
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The opposition leaders and Governor Aliyu spoke in Lagos at the launch of a book, Witness to History: Action Congress of Nigeria and the Struggle for Democracy, Liberty and Justice, written by Alhaji Lai Mohammed, National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN.
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Among the opposition figures present at the launch were former head of state and national leader of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.); national leader of ACN, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu; national chairman of ACN, Chief Bisi Akande; erstwhile Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
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Other are former Foreign Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi; former governors of Lagos, Ogun and Ekiti States, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, Aremo Olusegun Osoba and Otunba Niyi Adebayo, respectively, among many others.