The All Progressive Congress (APC) said on Tuesday that governance is a serious business and not a circus.
This reaction is coming minutes after the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) unveiled actress Funke Akindele as their Deputy Gov. in next year’s governorship election in Lagos state.
Despite the oppositions criticisms, the PDP’s governorship candidate for the state, Olajide Adediran, popularly known as Jandor has come out to defend the choice of the actress as his deputy.
Adediran on Tuesday called on electorates in Lagos State to work with him and his running mate, adding that she will add more value to his candidacy.
Reacting in a statement, Lagos State APC Spokesman, Seye Oladejo described the choice of Funke Akindele as a display of unseriousness on the part of the party.
The statement reads: “This development underscores the unseriousness of Lagos state PDP. This amounts to trivializing the importance of the forthcoming gubernatorial elections by giving political neophytes who have absolutely nothing to bring to the table their electoral tickets.
It also shows lack of depth in the party as regards quality members to put forward for elections if they could give a member who crossed-carpeted a few days before their primaries the governorship ticket and now went to the make-believe industry to fetch a deputy. The reason for voters’ apathy is, undoubtedly, due to lack of credible alternatives by the moribund opposition party.
“I was amused to read that the deputy governorship candidate said she was suspending her acting career for the elections whose result is highly predictable. I guess she’s suspending a lot more because she has been in the news of recent for all the wrong reasons.
“Lagosians will certainly not allow governance to be turned to a needless experiment or a sitcom. Governance is serious business not a circus.”
 unveiled actress Funke Akindele as their Deputy Gov. in next year's governorship election in Lagos state.){kind=link}