APC denied the
membership of Femi Fani-Kayode in an
interview yesterday by APC’s Lai
Mohammed, knowing fully well that FFK has already left them. Well here are
the FULL reasons Fani-Kayode says he
left the party and more juicy exposés what might interest you. Plus he says he
is back to PDP…Enjoy!!
“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 presence 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. The
truth is that Mohammed is not only a liar but he is also a coward. 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
presence 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.”
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