This is getting interesting. We thought Mr Femi Fani-Kayode was part of
APC especially when he declared his membership on his different Facebook
posts and ofcourse the APC leadership has never denied him until now.
Only God knows what went wrong. Anyway Lai Mohammed is upset with
Premium Times for associating Fani-Kayode with them on many occasions.
Below is what he said to them in a fresh interview. Enjoy! Abeg make
them leave Uncle FFK alone Oh, lol.
The All Progressives Party, APC, has said that a former
Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode is not a bonafide member of the party
despite parading himself as such.
The party suggested that the former minister does not have a
membership card qualifying him as a member of the party.
The interim National Publicity of the APC, Lai Mohammed who
stated this in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES, said the party could not
therefore take punitive measure against the former minister for repeatedly
deriding the platform and flirting with President Goodluck Jonathan.
He faulted this newspaper for describing Mr. Fani-Kayode as
a senior member of the party and demanded to know where he registered as a
member.
“Femi Fani-Kayode is not a senior member of my party. Where
did he register as a member of the APC and what qualify him to be a senior
member of my party?” the APC spokesperson said.
“People came to join our party and in politics, you don’t
push everybody away. He is a former Minister and has what I can call name
recognition, and when he came to associate with our party, all well and good.
But what role or specific office was he given? Which meeting of the organ of
the party has he ever attended?
“Fani-Kayode has access to many people; he has access to me,
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu or perhaps even General Muhammadu Buhari or Bisi Akande,
but that does not make him a senior member of the party.”
Mr. Fani-Kayode, who served in the administration of former
President Olusegun Obasanjo, had in May last year announced his defection from
the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the then yet-to-be registered APC. The
party was registered in July.
He made the announcement in a message on his Facebook page
after a meeting with Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, himself an APC
member.
“I was at Afe Babalola University to chair the book launch
of a friend, Dr. Bunmi Aborishade this morning. I had a meeting with Governor
Kayode Fayemi afterwards and I have just publicly and formally declare for the
APC. For me this is a great and historic day. Goodbye forever PDP,” Mr. Fani-Kayode
said.
But the former minister suddenly visited Mr. Jonathan, the
national leader of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, last April after which
he criticized the APC for planning to field two Muslims as presidential and
vice presidential candidates in the 2015 presidential election.
“I have said it privately in countless political meetings
and I will say it publicly today. Please mark it – the biggest mistake that my
party, the APC can make is to field a Muslim/Muslim ticket in the 2015 presidential
election. If we do that we will not only offend the Christian community, but we
will lose the election woefully,” Mr. Fani-Kayode told journalist reporting the
Presidential Villa after an hour meeting with Mr. Jonathan.
He later wrote a widely circulated two-part article
criticizing the APC for allegedly insisting on a Muslim-Muslim ticket.
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