A former minister of Aviation,
Femi Fani-Kayode, has predicted that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC)
will lose more members soon.
He condemned the Buhari
government over happenings in the country and expressed excitement about top
members leaving or planning to leave APC, noting that they, including the R-APC
bloc, have “seen the light”.
The Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, chieftain said this in a statement issued on Monday, in reaction to an
announcement by Senator Dino Melaye that he was going back to the PDP.
Fani-Kayode, who recalled how he
warned those who joined APC against doing so, however, hailed Melaye for being
on the side of the people even while in the ruling party.
He wrote: “I am overjoyed by the
notable strides that he has made in politics over the last 15 years and I am
pleased about his return to the ranks and fold of the righteous over the last
few days.
“I am equally pleased that many
of his colleagues from the RAPC will soon be joining us and we must welcome
them all with open arms.
“Politics is a game of numbers
and this can only be a good thing. We must all join hands to remove the tyrant
and the monster that has held our nation to ransom and that seeks to devour us
all.
“I am however constrained to say
a few things in response to my aburo’s jocular tweet in order to set the record
straight.
“The truth is that unlike him I
was never “blind” but I simply let down my guard, closed my eyes for a brief
moment and allowed my fleeting anger to becloud my better judgement.
“Thankfully I opened those eyes
relatively quickly and retraced my steps. I saw the evil and immediately I fled
from it.
“Within a short period of time
such was the power of the stench of the group of people that I had erroneously
aligned myself with for a few months in 2013 that I was compelled to open my
eyes and flee the scene.
“Dino detected the same stench
very early on but not only did he choose to hold his nose and stay in that
filthy setting but he also opted to assist in putting it in power and
enthroning it.
“The difference between me and
him is that I joined the then opposition party in 2013 and stayed there for
only 9 months. I left long before it was recognised as a political party by
INEC, long before it was named “APC” and long before Buhari became its presidential
candidate.
“Unlike Dino I recognised the
evil in them and left them long before they came to power in 2015. Unlike Dino
I raised the alarm about their genocidal tendencies, their fascistic
disposition, their secret desire to field a Muslim/Muslim ticket and their
jihadist agenda. Unlike Dino I fought them to a standstill in the 2015
presidential election by boldly speaking for the PDP and President Goodluck
Jonathan.
“To add to that I have opposed
their evil ways and demonic agenda consistently without fear or favour for the
last 3 years and my family and I have paid a heavy price for doing so.
“For the last 3 years I have been
one of the leading voices of the opposition in the country so I have paid my
dues. It is time for Dino and co. to pay theirs. I acknowledge that Dino and
some of the others have suffered in the last few months and shown immense
courage by leaving the APC.
“In many ways they are heroes but
they still have to do a lot more and they must show some contrition for
enthroning Buhari in 2015 and opposing Jonathan. The truth is that they put us
in this mess and an apology for that would go a long way.
“The biblical prodigal son showed
and exhibited some level of contrition and repentance on returning to his
fathers house and such a display of such contrition would help in this case.
“Unlike Dino I told the world
that we must stop the APC at all costs from getting power because from what I
had seen during my short time with them they would kill people, lock them up,
terrorise the nation and abuse that power if they ever got it.
“I was proved right. Dino and co.
saw the evil in the APC and instead of following my lead they stayed there,
pitched their tent with them, fought for them, spoke for them, campaigned for
them, ensured that they won power and openly supported the evil that they
subjected Nigerians to for the last 3 years.
“In those 3 years many of our
people were murdered, demonised, locked up, humiliated, detained, subjected to
trumped-up and politically-motivated criminal charges and brutal witchunts,
criminalised, misreprsented, threatened, intimidated and demonised. Many were
totally destroyed and may never recover.
“Unlike Dino and those that
supported Buhari, brought him to power and have clapped for him for the last 3
years, I do not have blood on my hands and neither can I be blamed for any of
the atrocities that he has committed because I opposed him, stood up to him,
resisted him and fought him every day for the last 3 years.
“I cannot say the same for my
brother Dino and co. who have only just seen the light because they stayed with
the evil called Buhari and supported and applauded him for those 3 horrendous
years. They turned their back to the light and chose to espouse the darkness.
“They fought PDP and President
Goodluck Jonathan for that entire period and refused to acknowledge our
suffering and sacrifice or condemn Buhari for his evil and homicidal ways, his
sectional and divisive politics, his monumental incompetence, his massive
corruption and his religious bigotry.
“Thankfully today they are saying
the things that we said before the 2015 election and what we have been saying
consistently for the last 3 years.
“Welcome that but they must never
compare themselves with someone like me. We were never in the same boat. I
chose the hard and difficult path whilst they did not.
“I saw the light and fought the evil
of Buhari long before he came to power whilst they refused to do so. God gave
me the grace, fortitude, courage, wisdom, strength and insight to do so and I
have opposed Buhari and his party with all my heart and soul from 2014 up until
today. I am very proud of that.
“Unlike them for me it was not
about political expedience, political pragmatism or about simply winning
elections but about principle and ideological purity.
“I could not in good conscience
stay in a political party with religious bigots, homicidal maniacs and ethnic
supremacists.
“I do not believe there can be
fellowship between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. I do not
believe that there can be any friendship or any union between the children of
God and the children of Belial.
“Let God judge between those of
us that stayed with the evil and those of us that opposed it. Whatever the case
I congratulate Dino for seeing the light, albeit 3 years late, and for
returning to the fold and the land of the living. As they say, it is better
late than never!”
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