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Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has asked the Lagos State Government to institute an independent panel of enquiry, and ensure the Commissioner of Police respects the rights of 24 people arrested over the disturbance that broke out in the Egbeda area of Lagos after police shot dead a commercial bus driver.
There is an air of uncertainty over who will be the flag bearer of the Action Congress (AC) in Lagos State, come 2011. The party is yet to decide who will represent it in the coming general election. However, some political observers still believe that Governor Babatunde Fashola should complete his second term, due to the marvellous projects he has embarked upon in Lagos State since he came into office. (more…)
Lagos State Opposition party, the Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has charged private refuse disposal operators with gross irresponsibility and asked the Lagos State Government and the Lagos State House of Assembly to bar them from dragging Lagosians to court over unpaid garbage bills. (more…)
Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has thrown its weight behind Lagos State’s initiative of organising remedial classes for secondary school leaving candidates. The party however urged the government to also pay urgent attention to the dearth of school facilities.
Describing the government’s move as commendable, DPA said it was a fitting response to students’ cry for help. (more…)
Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has asked the Lagos State Government to free those it is detaining in detention facilities throughout the state in the spirit of Christmas and New Year.
The party also demanded the freeing of all seized vehicles and business implements, like commercial motorcycles and buses, confiscated by the government and its agencies. (more…)
The Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) has expressed alarm over the ongoing voters registration exercise by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Lagos .
Rising from a meeting on Tuesday at their state secretariat in Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos DPA leaders noted that the exercise was characterised by hoarding of voters’ cards, favouritism towards members of the ruling Action Congress (AC) and frustration of known supporters of rival political parties.
Lagos DPA made these observations in a statement by Director of Publicity Felix Oboagwina, and expressed fears that going by feedback on the registration exercise so far, Lagos was miles away from a credible, free and fair election in 2011.
The party specifically mentioned the case of Shomolu Local Council, where it said it received reports that INEC officials attended to only members of the Action Congress (AC) while other citizens were sometimes asked to pay money before getting new cards.
“We have been inundated with complaints from community leaders that several registered voters who submitted their temporary voters’ slip and were told to return later to collect permanent voters’ cards ended up frustrated.
When they returned to collect the laminated permanent cards as instructed, registration officials told them that the slips they originally submitted could not be found,” DPA said. “We sincerely hope that the intention of seizing those cards is not part of the grand plan of INEC Lagos to disenfranchise the electorate.”
The party lamented that the incidents formed part of a grand plan to make elections in Lagos fraudulent as usual.
“It is a pity that we are travelling the same dishonest road that we have travelled before, the same path that resulted in heavily flawed elections in April 2007 and October 2008 to the advantage of a particular party in Lagos State ,” the party said.
According to the party, in several places, attempts by Lagosians who have reached the mandatory voting age of 18 to register afresh or exchange their paper slips for permanent cards were frustrated because INEC officials failed to show up at registration points.
It urged the Commission to call its personnel to order and stop the downward slide into electoral manipulation, chaos and disenchantment.
“Any politician knows that electoral rigging begins with the registration of voters. Once they have that pinned down, then all other rigging plans simply fall into place and the election is as good as cooked,” the party said. “A cooked voters’ register will encourage the hiring of ECOMOG voters, double voting and fake results. When heartless politicians heap the register with fake voters for which they have cards in waiting, then they can recruit mercenaries on a cash-and-carry basis on Election Day. They can also inflate votes in low-density polling zones.”
The party urged the Commission to ensure that it put machinery in place to frustrate any collusion between INEC staffers and unscrupulous politicians.
In the words of the party: “These are the antics of criminally-minded politicians –politicians who play do-or-die politics, politicians who want to be in office at all costs, who have no respect for the wish and the mandate of the people and who have no programme for enhancing the people’s welfare. And it is unfortunate that they have bought over some INEC personnel.”
The Democratic Peoples’ Alliance (DPA) is drawing the attention of Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola and Commissioner of the Environment, Dr. Muiz Banire, to a looming epidemic around the Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, where a neighbouring acreage has been converted into a refuse dumpsite.
DPA warned that the operations could contaminate the Igando water-table and the surrounding air (more…)
Lagos Opposition party-The Democratic Peoples Alliance (DPA) has urged the Lagos State Government to factor into the 2010 budget the United Nations’ recommended 26 percent of total expenditure for education, as well as establishing structures that will enhance the routine maintenance of roads. (more…)
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