by Kolapo Olapoju
In no particular order, we present to you our top 7 quotes of the week:
1. “So, let no one say that he has no money to deliver power for the entire country. This is the limit to which the law allows us to do, but we have done this to make a statement that power can be generated. So, when they come with lies that power is impossible, you can tell them that we have power here; we make it possible.”
– Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, made the statement while saying that the problem of power sector could be solved in six months if the Distribution Companies, DISCOs, were ready to yield some percentages of their concessions to the state government.
2. “The President they are presenting for a TV debate doesn’t know the difference between stealing and corruption and he goes on defending their ridiculous position at every given opportunity. How can you dignify a fellow who lacks the comportment of public interest with a debate? Dr. Jonathan doesn’t have an understanding of public interest.”
– The spokesperson of the APC campaign, Garba Shehu, criticising Reno Omokri and Reuben Abati, on their unrelenting insistence that Muhammadu Buhari accepts to debate President Goodluck Jonathan.
3. “Evil prospers when good people remain silent. If you know the power embedded in your PVC, you won’t be silent anymore. What shall it profit Nigerian to sell his vote and continue to suffer in penury?”
– The All Progressives Congress, APC, sent out a tweet during the week, urging Nigerians against selling their votes.
4. “We do not only consider Governor Babatunde Fashola’s statement as irresponsible, we also think that it is unintelligent because it flies in the face of facts and it just does not add up. We hope that Governor Fashola, in an attempt to play politics, will not continue as his party does to play politics with the lives of people.”
– Reuben Abati, reacting on behalf of the presidency to the statement of Governor Babatunde Fashola, that the robbery attack in the Lekki-Ikoyi axis of Lagos was successful due to the presence of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presence in Lagos.
5. “I am puzzled to hear Buhari say that whoever has been indicted of corruption between 1999 and the time of his swearing-in would be pardoned. According to him, like a village sports man, he will draw a line, anybody who involves himself in corruption after he assumes office on May 29, 2015 will face the music, while no matter how corrupt a person has been before then, he or she would be asked to go and sin no more.”
– Ijaw National leader, Edwin Clark, questioning the genuiness and crecibility of the pladge by the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to begin the fight against corruption from May 29, 2015 if he wins the March 28 election.
6. “A bird at hand is worth a million in the bush. Nigerian women, let us shine our eyes. Women of Nigeria, are you ready to go to prison? Are you ready to go and give your father food in the prison? It is not our portion. We reject it.”
– Patience Jonathan made the utterance on Friday, while addressing the crowd during the Peoples Democratic Party Women Presidential Rally in Uyo.
7.”Entertainers deserve to be taken seriously, like every other segment of our economy required to restructure our country for greatness. The young creative people deserve to be taken seriously, not patronized or confused by woolly clichés and promises that will not be kept. It is time to plug corruption so that wealth can truly flow to strengthen the sector.”
– Amaechi made a case for Nigerian entertainers at the recent APC event in Lagos, tagged: “An Evening for Nigeria with Buhari and Osinbajo.”
