Tha Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has replied the All Progressives Congress (APC) who had questioned the legality of the otganisation saying that the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) had been duly registered by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to carry out specific activities in the ongoing political re-engineering in the country.
According to a report by Thisday, TAN in statement signed by Udenta Udenta, its director of communication said: “TAN has not in any way gone outside the law to warrant the All Progressives Congress (APC’s) indecorous language. If the impact of TAN is causing some discomfort to the opposition party in its desperation to grab power, it should look inward and not engage in mindless attacks.”
In the statement Udenta accused APC and its national publicity secretary Lai Mohammed of double standards for pointing accusing fingers at TAN citizens sensitisation rallies only 24 hours after the APC had just held a political rally in Sokoto state 24 hours earlier.
According Udenta, “Was the country not in a war as APC claimed, when it embarked in the Sokoto rally? Has Ebola virus suddenly disappeared in the country that enabled the Sokoto rally to take place? Where and how did Mohammed arrive at his conclusion that TAN’s rallies are offending the sensibilities of the families of our citizens and knows that Sokoto rally did not? “Why did APC hold the Sokoto rally when the Chibok girls are yet to be released and Boko Haram is not defeated?,”
The group said that it was not a political party and normally would not engage in a war of words with any political party but woul not keep mum when truth was being painted in the name of politics.
Udenta continues: “We really have no apology to offer to anyone in our mission of showcasing the verifiable landmark achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan. We expected the opposition to fault us on that score but because of the dearth of evidence against what we are heralding; they now choose to chase shadow by dishing lies to Nigerians. Because TAN by its vigorous activities is not letting APC realise its desired ambition of making sure that all achievements of President Goodluck Jonathan are drowned in its negative politics and insipient media, it now feels it can turn the heat on us. TAN certainly would go to any length to defend its legitimate role in the polity and would not shy away even if it means confronting and exposing APC’s anti-democratic behaviour. The innovation that TAN is bringing into the nation’s political space should attract positive comments to discerning minds. If anybody is uncomfortable, it must be based on selfish ground.”
The group concluded by saying that since its inception, TAN have continued to maintain a positive demeanor towards all Nigerian institutions in a single minded celebration of the possibility of a Nigeria under President Jonathan without “rancor, strife, bitterness and discord by its callous abandonment of the tenets of decency and respect that ought to govern the public advocacy space through its revolting diatribes and unconscionable attacks against it.”
