A former Minister of Aviation, Femi
Fani-Kayode, has dumped the All Progressives Congress for the Peoples
Democratic Party, accusing the party of having an Islamic agenda and
being intolerant.
Fani-Kayode, who spoke with our correspondent on the phone, on Monday, said that the leadership of the APC was insincere.
A statement by the former minister
described the spokesperson for the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, as a liar
– for allegedly saying that he (Fani-Kayode) never joined the party.
Mohammed did not pick the calls made to his lines by our correspondent.
The statement by Fani-Kayode read in
part, “I have stated these facts and set the record straight – due to
the fact that Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the spokesman of the APC, had the
effrontery to say in an interview with a magazine earlier today, that I
was never a member of the APC and that I never joined them formally. The
truth is that Mohammed is not only a liar but he is also a coward.
“I cannot remain in a party where a
handful of people that have sympathies for Boko Haram and that have a
clear Islamic agenda are playing a leading role.
“This is made all the more untenable when
some of those people are working hard silently and behind the scenes to
impose a Muslim/Muslim ticket on the party for the Presidential
elections next year.
“I cannot be in a party where a few of
its leaders are more interested in playing politics with the whole
Chibok issue and hurling bricks at our military for not doing a better
job. I cannot be in a party in which the role of one of its governors is
not clear on the Chibok issue.”
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