More Opposition To Fani-Kayode Joining APC

More opposition to Femi Fani-Kayode’s admission into the All Progressives Congress, APC emerged on Tuesday morning with the director-general of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, PGF Salihu Lukman giving strong opposition to him. The opposition to Fani-Kayode joining APC had earlier been expressed by a senior presidency official.

Noting that Fani-Kayode lacked values worthy to be associated with he said that embracing him would be rewarding scandalous behaviour.

In a statement on Tuesday morning, Lukman said that touching the former minister of aviation would be equating the APC as a party of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau and IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu

He spoke following consultations between Fani-Kayode and APC national chairman, Mai Mala Buni and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State.

“Not even the Ward leaders where he is located should be associated with him except for reasons of family ties. By the way, the Caretaker Committee of our party should avoid a situation whereby it takes a decision on issues that are very weighty without consultations. On no account should anyone with the kind of baggage of Mr Fani-Kayode be invited to join the party without clearance from a statutory structure of the party? In this particular instance, the National Caucus should be the clearinghouse”, Lukman said.

“That our leaders will be meeting with Mr Fani-Kayode in such a compromising way, suggesting that he may be on his way to joining our party, clearly indicates that either those of us saddled with the responsibility of advising them have failed or we have been completely cut off.

“How can a person who just a few days, if not a few hours ago wrote to one of our leaders and derogatorily and condescendingly condemned his political prospects of emerging as the Presidential candidate of our party, be given such a high-level reception? Assuming the open letter to our National Leader, which is all over our media at the time of such reception, wasn’t offensive, what of the open letter he wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari last year?

Expressing more oppositon to Fani-Kayode joining APC, he said:

“Besides the open letters, what abusive language has he not used against our party and our leaders? Most of these are unprintable. A typical example of the kind of abuses he spat on our leaders and our party can be demonstrated with his response to a tweet by Mr Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to President Buhari on Information, last May 2020. Mr Adesina argued that President Buhari’s emergence as President saved the country.

“Responding, Mr Fani-Kayode said: ‘Not so my friend. The emergence of Buhari in 2015 annihilated Nigeria and plunged her into darkness, death and destruction. He came to steal, kill and destroy and for the last disastrous 5 years that is all he has done.’ “Compared to most of Mr Fani-Kayode’s barrages of insults on APC and its leaders, this would appear to be very civil.

“Most Nigerians, both APC members and non-APC members would appear to be in agreement that any association between APC and its leadership with Mr Fani-Kayode is indicative of the problem of values. APC not for Kanus, Shakaus

“Without being academic in any way, the issue of values is basically about the qualities of people and the vision they hold. What kind of people are we aspiring to attract into our party? Do we want to reduce our party into one in which everybody is welcome?

Saing that Fani-Kayode joining APC could be equated to Kanu and Shekau joining APC, he said:

“Can we for instance in any way or form contemplate having a Nnamdi Kanu or Abubakar Shekau as a member? If that were to be the case, why don’t we just have INEC register IPOB and Boko Haram as political parties and allow them to field candidates for elections? “We may be tempted to argue that Mr Fani-Kayode is not Nnamdi Kanu or Abubakar Shekau. It is however difficult to fathom what qualifies him to be associated with our leaders at that high level?

“At this rate, one day, Nigerians will just wake and see some of our leaders presenting Mr Fani-Kayode to President Buhari as a new member of our party.

The opposition to Fani-Kayode joinng APC, he said would be backed by President Muhammadu Buhari.

“Although we can confidently argue that President Buhari will not approve such deranged possibility, it is important to caution that such consideration will be stretching the trust of party members beyond acceptable limits.

“We need to appeal to all our leaders, especially the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee and all the thirteen members to always remember that they are entrusted with the responsibility they have today to democratise our party. They are not Sole Administrators. To democratise will require more meetings and consultations. Their actions should reflect decisions taken at meetings or at least from wider consultations!”,

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