LAGOS—The Lagos  State chapter of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has dismissed the charge by South West Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that Governor Babatunde Fashola is anti-people, calling on Lagos residents to disregard the remark.

The party described the statement by the PDP “as yet another hollow prospecting in opportunism and hypocritical politics by what remains of the PDP in the South West.”

In a statement by its state Publicity Secretary, Mr. Joe Igbokwe, the party stated that “since the South West PDP feels it will resurrect its dead strength by trading in gossips and mischief, nothing is considered way too low for the party in its vain efforts to con South Westerners after their disastrous reign was brought to a desirable end by South Westerners in 2011.”

While debunking the claim by the PDP that the Lagos State government plans to displace traders in the Katangowa Market, the party said the South West PDP should “brace itself for a long life in political oblivion as nothing will ever make South Westerners embrace the debased ideologies and politics of despoliation the PDP promotes.”

The party said: “We want to assure Lagosians that there is no truth whatsoever in the false and outlandish allegation being traded by the rumour mill of South West PDP that Lagos wants to displace traders in Katangowa Market without providing an alternative.

We want Lagosians and South Westerners to disregard this as yet another desperate effort of South West PDP to cash on the intelligence of the people.