Nothing About the Masses’: APM Senatorial Candidate,Falae Condemns APC’s Idanre Campaign Rally
Nothing About the Masses : APM Senatorial Candidate,Falae Condemns APC’s Idanre Campaign Rally
The recent rally by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Idanre Local Government has been described as a clear sign that the party has failed the masses and completely lost touch with the people of Ondo State.
Rallies and campaigns are avenues for political parties to showcase their achievements to the masses, rather that of the All Progressives Congress in Idanre was to showcase their emptiness and market their ineptitude to the people of Ondo State.
In a statement issued on wednesday by the Senatorial candidate of the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) in Ondo Central, Engr. Sunday Oludare Falae, he said the poor turnout and open display of disunity at the APC flag-off is a testimony that the people have rejected the ruling party.
Engr. Falae noted that the people of Idanre deserted them at the flag-off, leaving the venue scanty and lifeless despite days of heavy mobilization, radio announcements and monetary inducements.
He disclosed that the APC had to hire more than thirty buses in Akure to mobilise people to the ancient town, yet they could not fill a small portion of the field, with many of the imported supporters seen fighting over stipends.
He stressed that the candidates of the party had nothing to tell the people about what they have done to benefit the masses.
According to him, no single road, no empowerment, no project was mentioned as their achievement in Idanre and in Ondo Central as a whole. It was a tale of woes of the infighting within the party, as speakers took turns to attack one another instead of addressing the suffering of the people.
“What we saw in Idanre was not a rally but a rented crowd and a gathering for washing their dirty linens in public. When a ruling party that claims to be popular has to import supporters from Akure to Idanre, and its candidates have no scorecard to present after years in office, it shows the people have abandoned them. Their speeches were all about who betrayed who, who is the authentic leader.
Nothing about the poor masses. Idanre people are politically conscious; they stayed away because they are tired of hunger, bad roads and fake promises,” Falae said.
The APM candidate further revealed that the APC leaders were seen openly quarrelling over sitting arrangements, order of speeches, while members of the party’s youth wing engaged in a shouting match over who controls the rented crowd. He said videos of the confusion, now trending in Idanre, have confirmed the deep crack and supremacy battle rocking Ondo APC from the state to the ward level.
He lamented that while the APC is busy fighting over crumbs and staging empty rallies, farmers in Idanre cannot move their cocoa and palm produce due to deplorable roads, market women are groaning under high cost of goods, youths are unemployed and insecurity is growing in farm settlements.
Engr. Falae assured that the Allied Peoples Movement will offer a credible and people-driven alternative that will rescue Ondo Central from the grip of failed leadership and restore hope to market women, farmers, youths, students and the aged.
“The Idanre empty rally is a divine warning. You cannot deceive the same people you impoverished for years with a borrowed crowd and tales of your internal fights. The ground has shifted, the people have moved to APM,” he added.
