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"I wish to inform the general public that as at to...day, 2nd June 2014, I have left the APC and gone back to the PDP. I wish the APC well in all their endeavours but as at today we have parted ways forever and my spirit has left them," Fani-Kayode said in a statement.
He further stated the reasons for his decison in his speech below:
I declared for the APC in June last year in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti state well before the party was registered by INEC. I formally joined the party, amidst great fanfare, on 7th February 2014 in my hometown Ile-Ife and I registered my membership on that day. The registration was done outside the Ooni's palace and it was done in the prescence of the media, numerous party leaders in the state, including Hon. Rotimi Makinde, who represents Ile-Ife at the Federal House, and all the other key leaders of the APC in the state and Ife-Ife including Chief Akantioke and Alhaji Soko Adewoyin the former Deputy Governor of Osun state.
After registering we proceeded to pay a courtesy call on my traditional ruler, the Ooni of Ife, and from there I went to spend a few days with Governor Rauf Aregbesola who, together with Governor Kayode Fayemi, I am close to and I consider to be friends. 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 effontry to say in an interview with Premium Times magazine earlier today, that I was never a member of the APC and that I never joined them formally. He also went further to say that had if I had been a member of the APC the party would have sanctioned me for expressing my opposition to the idea of a muslim/muslim ticket.
If he wanted to know the truth he and those that sent him to issue the statement could have called me and asked me. He ought to have done his homework before speaking out. I was not only a member of the APC but I was also a leader of that party and a foundational member. Yet once I joined I began to see things as they really were. I have never been and will never be part of a cult and the fact that people like Mohammed and those he represents within the APC are not comfortable with any form of admonition or criticism from senior party members like me speaks volumes. I have nothing but the fondest thoughts and memories for the majority of APC leaders including all the governors and most of the Presidential aspirants but today I have an important announcement to make.
I wish to inform the general public that as at today, 2nd June 2014, I have left the APC and gone back to the PDP. I wish the APC well in all their endeavours but as at today we have parted ways forever and my spirit has left them. My reasons for leaving the party are because I consider nation-building as being far more important than party politics, party affiliation or party formations. I am a devout and committed christian and 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 believe that religion ought to play no part in politics but a situation where members of the christian faith are not treated as equals and where the all the substantive positions of the National Executive of the party are made up of almost exclusively muslims is unacceptable to me.
In fairness to the members of the party there are many leaders within it's ranks who share my views and who are also opposed to the religious agenda that the few have but I am not prepared to stay and fight from within because the very prescence of any closet Haramites on the same political platform as me is something that I find utterly repugnant. I have raised these issues privately with virtually every key party leader including most of the governors but nothing has changed. I cannot be in a party in which the spokesman. Lai Mohammed, only last year said that it was wrong and ''unconstitutional'' for the Federal Government to proscribe Boko Haram. This is the same Boko Haram that has killed no less than 15,000 Nigerians in the last three years. I cannot be in a party where the leading Presidential candidate, only last year said that Boko Haram ought to be killed but ought to be treated like the Niger Delta militants, granted amnesty without any conditions, pampered and paid and who said, in 2001, that muslims should only vote for people who will protect their faith.
I cannot be in a party where a number of leading people question the secularity of the state and yet those people are not called to order by the so-called party leaders and where such people seem to hold sway. I cannot be in a party which appears to have politicised the whole of the Chibok issue and who are not sincere in trying to get the girls back. I cannot be in a party where a few of it's 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 it's governors is not clear on the Chibok issue: this is a governor that has not been able to explain to the world why he insisted that the girls should do their exams in that school and remain in Chibok for the night even though WAEC and the Federal Government had warned them about the dangers of doing so. I cannot be in a party in which dissent and a differing opinion with others on fundamental issues is seen as an offence and something to be frowned upon or to be queried or expelled for.
I have been in politics for the last 24 years of my life and all along I have taken monuemental risks and been guided by my princples. I have also exhibited that I have the courage of my convictions and more often that not I have dared to say what many others are thiniking but dare not to say. It is clear to me that such sentiments are not appreciated in the APC under it's present leadership and consequently I have chosen to move on. I believe that every religion and every ethnic nationality in this country ought to be treated with the greatest respect even within the context of a political party. I believe that we are all equal before God regardless of our religious differences.
A situation whereby, as a christian, I am made to feel that I am a second class citizen in any association or political party which I am part of and for which I have taken risks is unacceptable to me. In order for any political party to move our country forward you need the input, support and confidence of the adherents of ALL religious faiths and not just that of the muslims. This is something that some in the APC do not seem to appreciate. As a christian I feel deeply offended by some of the rhetoric and behaviour of some of the APC leaders and I cannot be expected to remain silent in the face of such expressions. These are the main reasons why I have left the APC. I wish them well in all their endeavours and like I said earlier many of their key leaders and governors remain my personal friends and will continue to do so even after this. Thanks and may God guide and bless Nigeria.
Av come to realise that whenever one come out to speak the truth that. Will move Nigerian forward to great path! He / she get condemned, who is that irresponsible idiot calling someone idiot for expressing and exposing the bad eggs; u and ur family will end ur life's in the hands of BH then u will stand for the truth like fani bad leaders
ReplyDeleteFani K, be man enough to tell us ur reasons, u sited comment that were purportedly made b4 & after ur association with APC, U said u have many friends that u re loyal to in d party yet u stated u cannot deal with such party & pple. D logic u have used is twisted, irrational, sentimental & Grossly embarassing to inteligent minds. We in APC are Progressives, yes, Buhari & Tinubu has worked harder than any individual in making d Party what it is today, is natural for Tinubu to seek, but the party has not concluded, so why d u scurry to d Villa to see Jona? Anyway ur logic has shown what u really are as a person, A political prostitute. I also wish u best of d kind of luck u seek in ur Whoring, hope u don't contact political HIV before u re done.
ReplyDeleteKayode u said u believe religion ought not play any part in politics, ur statement, but u re leaving d party cos d two most important aspirants are Muslims, do u even listen to urself when u talk? That is how u make a fool of urself when u attacked d Ibos for claiming they had contributed in d dev of Lagos. Check urself b4 u wreck urself
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ReplyDeleteFani we don't want u back , pls stay with APC
ReplyDeleteFemi u called ueself a Christian hope u do nt read ur bible like novel read Mathew 7:1 judge nt 4 u nt 2 be judge we hv a lot of Muslim's dat re far beta Dan some so called Christians wat was ur reasons Y u left PDP before 2 join APC no mata ur religion wat ever u sow dat u shall reap
ReplyDeleteWith wat is happening in Nigeria today more APC members will defect to PDP in d days ahead. Lets wait till after dia convention on d 16th of June. Some governors have hijacked d party structures which Tinubu is not finding funny. So d future of APC is shaky and FFK has seen d hand writing on d wall and as a wise man has anchored his boat wit PDP. We all know after d convention dat APC will not remain d same again and those of u insulting FFK shld be prepared 2 insult more ranks of APC as they will toe d steps of FFK. All d guys insulting FFK here are APC members only on line and on newspaper pages. D real APC members know what is on ground. I can authoritatively tell u dat all is not well wit APC and they will hand over d presidency 2 GEJ in 2015 on a platter of gold. Who God has blessed no man can curse.
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