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  • BREAKING: Ex-minister, Fani-Kayode in EFCC custody

    BREAKING: Ex-minister, Fani-Kayode in EFCC custody

    The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is currently interrogating a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode.

    According to reports, the former minister was invited to answer questions relating to the forgery of a medical report which he allegedly procured to evade his trial before a Federal High Court in Lagos, the sources said.

    Fani-Kayode was said to have arrived at the Lagos Office of the commission in the company of his lawyer at about 1pm.

    He is still answering questions from the EFCC investigators as at the time of this report.

    The commission said it would give an update on the interrogation later when it concludes its investigations.

    Fani-Kayode is standing trial on an alleged N4.6 billion fraud before Justice Daniel Osiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

    The EFCC had charged him alongside a former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman, and two others on 17 counts of conspiracy, money laundering, and fraud.

    At the last sitting of the court on October 13, the judge had imposed a cost of N200,000 on him due to his failure to appear before the court for his re-arraignment following the transfer of the former trial judge, Justice Rilwan Aikawa.

    He was ordered to pay the fine or stand the risk of having his bail revoked after he failed to appear before the court for his re-arraignment.

    Instead of appearing for his re-arraignment, the former minister had sent a letter to the court, claiming that his doctors had placed him on bed rest.

    Counsel to the EFCC, Mrs Bilikisu Buhari had informed the court that the letters by the second defendant had become numerous and had also become an excuse for him to evade trial.

    “This is the third time he will be writing this type of letter from the same hospital,” she said. “Whenever he doesn’t want to attend court, this is the type of letter we get.”

    But Fani-Kayode’s counsel, Bobo Fred-Ajudua, cut in and informed the judge that although his client’s illness was a recurring one, he had attended court regularly, and this could be shown from the court’s records.

    He, thereafter, asked the court to grant an adjournment in favour of his client. At that point, the trial judge decided to go through the court’s file and after searching, he discovered that the second defendant had actually sought a similar medical excuse five times.

    The court then asked the defence counsel to take one of two options which were to either revoke the bail of the second defendant or to impose a fine of N200,000 to be paid before the next trial date.

    “From my records, the second defendant had written the court five times excusing his trial on medical grounds. February 1, 2018; May 30, 2019; November 24, 2020; March 21, 2021, and today’s letter dated October 9, 2021.

    “The second defendant is to pay a cost of N200,000 before the next adjourned date, as the recurring medical excuses have been a pattern that slows down this trial,” the judge held.

    The defence counsel chose the latter option.

    Justice Osaigor then adjourned the case until November 30 for re-arraignment of all the defendants.

    In counts one to seven, the defendants were alleged to have unlawfully retained over N3.8 billion which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful act of stealing and corruption.

    In counts eight to 14, the defendants were alleged to have unlawfully used over N970 million which they reasonably ought to have known formed part of an unlawful act of corruption.

    Fani-Kayode and one Olubode Oke who is said to be at large, in counts 15 to 17, were alleged to have made cash payments of about N30 million – over the amount allowed by law, without going through a financial institution.

    All the offences were said to have contravened the provisions of Sections 15 (3) (4), 16 (2) (b), and 16 (5) of the Money laundering (prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the former minister recently defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

  • The Buhari red carpet for Fani-Kayode, By Ehichioya Ezomon

    The Buhari red carpet for Fani-Kayode, By Ehichioya Ezomon

    By Ehichioya Ezomon
    For 12 days now, Femi Fani-Kayode has become “the issue” in Nigeria’s politics, receiving copious reviews and comments – nearly all negative – from a broad spectrum of a flabbergasted society.
    Actors in the political divide hardly find a common ground on matters in the polity. But on the issue of the “defection” of the former Minister of Aviation, there’s a convergence of opinions.
    Members of the All Progressives Congress – “beneficiaries” of Fani-Kayode’s defection – are more pissed off by his link with the platform that promises “change” in politicking and governance.
    The height of the obvious public disappointment and odium is the red carpet reception that Fani-Kayode received from the head of the governing party in Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari.
    The question: What’s Fani-Kayode bringing to the APC, in terms of organisation, finance and campaigns for electoral victories, to merit a primetime reception at the Presidential Villa in Abuja?
    Has Fani-Kayode been credited with contributing to the electoral success of the parties he’d hobnobbed with, other than scavenging for fortunes amid failures to secure his polling booth?
    Why would the APC welcome him if not that the politician’s ways are different from the norm? That accounts for Buhari’s embrace of Fani-Kayode, who used him as a punching bag for many years.
    What didn’t Fani-Kayode label Buhari (and members of the APC): A tribal and religious bigot; sponsor of Boko Haram; patron of Miyetti Allah and Fulani herdsmen; propagator of Fulanisation and Islamisation of Nigeria; hypocrite of anti-graft crusade; committer of crimes against humanity; and a Janjaweed (insurgent/militia).
    Fani-Kayode stoked ethnic and religious tensions he hasn’t paid for with invitations from security agencies that are eager to rein in “trouble makers” that he (Fani-Kayode) qualifies as one.
    People of good conscience can’t fathom Fani-Kayode’s re-entry into APC, with the Director-General of Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF), Dr Salihu Lukman, summing up members’ frustration.
    Noting Special Adviser to President Buhari on Political Matters, Sen. Babafemi Ojudu’s description of reception for Fani-Kayode as “the saddest day of his political career,” Lukman said APC members’ protest stems from Fani-Kayode’s “venomous nature” of indiscriminate abusing, insulting and disparaging of everybody.
    In a statement, “APC’s High Profile Membership Recruitment and Issues for 2023,” Lukman pointed to Fani-Kayode’s limited capacity to build and sustain relationships, “not just politically, but in every aspect of his life.”
    Lukman added: “Almost every member of APC is angry that our leaders have brought someone like Fani-Kayode into our party. This is made worse by the undeserved red carpet reception given to him.
    “But since it has happened, there is no need to cry over spilled milk. What is very clear is that our leaders, especially President Buhari, have forgiven Fani-Kayode and embraced him as one of us.”
    Lukman advised APC members “not to be more Catholic than the Pope” but to show understanding with the party leaders, despite the negative things that Fani-Kayode had said/written in the past.
    A similar appeal to APC members “for understanding” came from presidential Special Adviser on Media, Femi Adesina, who stated that Fani-Kayode “said things straight from the gutters, things that the natural man would call unforgivable and unpardonable.”
    Adesina’s words: “Against President Buhari, the first family, Yusuf Buhari, whom he (Fani-Kayode) wished had died when the latter had an almost fatal bike accident, APC as a party, the government, leaders of the party, groups and individuals. Even this writer (Adesina) has suffered horrid descriptions from FFK in many write-ups. Yes, he even said he would rather die than return to APC, but last week, he returned – well and alive.”
    Though Adesina noted Buhari’s godly disposition towards Fani-Kayode, the president ought to consider, if noting else, his attacks on the anti-graft war, which his welcoming into APC could rubbish.
    Doesn’t Buhari’s action fit into the narrative that his government condones, and abets corruption; that once you step into the APC, “all your sins” – of treasury looting – “will be forgiven” by the party that vows to rout all forms of official malfeasance?
    Most of the defecting politicians that perpetrate and perpetuate fiscal fraudulence in Nigeria, who’ve been in or out of the PDP and APC governments since 1999, always find reasons for porting from one party to another, and port again and again ad infinitum.
    The easiest excuse is crisis – real or imagined – in the parties. And it comes in the form of the “aggrieved” not carried along in sharing of the bounties, denial of tickets for elective positions, or advice by constituents “due to lack of delivery of dividend of democracy.”
    But these are concoctions brewed by the defectors to cover the reason(s) for their frequent movements among the political parties, or between the major ones, like the APC and PDP.
    Self-interest, alias “stomach infrastructure,” is the real reason politicians defect, and not the concerns for their constituents. What interest, other than self, had Fani-Kayode to move to APC?
    Yet, on why he jumped ship, Fani-Kayode didn’t invoke the crisis in PDP, denial of party largesse or aspiration for office, or prompting by his constituents, but claimed God’s direction, advice from family members, and especially Buhari’s sincerity to unite Nigeria.
    He said of his change of mind about Buhari: “Having moved closer to him over the last few months, I’ve discovered a lot of things I didn’t know before; there’s a lot going on behind the scenes.
    “And I have to begin to think that it is better for us, for me and for my country, to ensure that we operate from within (the APC) and effect the change we want to put in place.”
    But the ex-minister’s alibi is unconvincing to his critics, who iterated former President Olusegun Obananjo’s quote, that: “Fani-Kayode will always go to where there is ‘food’,” a portrayal Senate Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), offhandedly rubbed in on an Arise TV programme on September 17, 2921.
    Abaribe said: “I do not want to dwell on his issue. Former President Obasanjo had said it all, (that) ‘Femi Fani-Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He’s a smart boy’.”
    “Smart boy,” indeed, who’s good, and adept at “singing for you” by running down any person, no matter how highly placed, that’s crossed the path of his “paymaster(s)” by deploying the most vile of adjectives in the Queens language!
    To put it mildly, Fani-Kayode is an attack dog that spares nobody, except, of course, Chief Obasanjo. Perhaps, if served with the right food, he’d henceforth sing or “sting” for President Buhari!
    If you asked me, it’s the best of times to recruit Fani-Kayode into the governing APC that’s about to face the most crucial and critical processes of the 2023 general election, with the opposition fired up, and served notice on Buhari and the APC.
    Like the wise do, Buhari and the APC are fore-arming themselves. And who but a bare-knuckled Fani-Kayode could help them challenge the opposition in a gruelling campaign. So, to APC’s leaders, Fani-Kayode’s blighted persona is secondary!
    Mr. Ezomon, Journalist and Media Consultant, writes from Lagos, Nigeria.
  • Child’s custody: Fani-Kayode’s estranged wife drags him to court, demands N800m

    Child’s custody: Fani-Kayode’s estranged wife drags him to court, demands N800m

    Precious Chikwendu, the estranged wife of the infamous former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja to secure a restraining order against him.

    Chikwendu, in a suit filed through her team of lawyers led by Abdul-Aziz Jimoh, also cited the Inspector-General of Police, the Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) Force CID, Commissioner of Police FCT, and the OC Legal (CID) FCT Command, CSP James Idachaba, as respondents in the matter.

    In the suit, the woman prayed the court to restrain her former husband from using the other respondents to intimidate or harass her in any form whatsoever, pending the hearing and determination of an earlier suit marked No CV/372/2021, which she filed to take custody of four children she had for the former Minister.

    Aside from seeking the enforcement of her fundamental rights, the applicant equally prayed the court to award her the sum of N800million, to be paid by the Respondents, jointly and severally.

    “That I was in a most tempestuous and violent relationship with the 5th respondent (Fani-Kayode), a qualified legal practitioner, a politician and a former Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,” the court document read.

    “The 5th respondent and I have four (4) children together and I am forcefully separated from our children who are all minors.

    “Consequent upon the unbridled violence perpetrated against me by the 5th respondent and the forceful separation from our children, I filled a suit in the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja with suit no CV/372/2021.

    “Rather than allow the contending matters placed before the FCT High Court to be determined by the Honorable Court, the 5th respondent has persisted in using the police officers under the control of the 1st respondent( IGP) and supervised by the 2nd respondent (Commissioner of Police FCT) incessantly to intimidate and harass me with a view to interfering in the adjudicatory powers of a competent court of justice.

    “That the 5th respondent, in cahoots with his counsel, being legal practitioners and officers of the court contrived a purported petition against me alleging forgery and falsification of court records in relation to the matter pending before the FCT High Court.”

    Precious stated that she is fearful of her life, alleging that the 5th Respondent had been bragging that he could do anything to her and nothing would happen, adding

    She told the court that in spite of several petitions she wrote to the 1st Respondent (IGP) alleging threats to her life by the 5th Respondent, he refused to act on the petitions.

    Fani-Kayode and Precious have continued to make the headlines since their marriage of seven years collapsed last year with the pair currently in a heated tussle for the custody of their four children.

    The former beauty queen had accused the All Progressives Congress chieftain of having mental health challenges.

    She claimed that Fani-Kayode was abusive to her during her pregnancy due to his mental health challenges.

    Precious also alleged that the former minister called the triplets in her womb cockroaches while punching her stomach.

    Fani-Kayode had, however, fired back in a statement. He had also dismissed the allegations and described his former wife as “a pathological liar and a slanderer.”

  • Why Buhari gave Fani-Kayode triumphal return to APC despite wishing his son dead – Adesina

    Why Buhari gave Fani-Kayode triumphal return to APC despite wishing his son dead – Adesina

    Buhari had last week received Fani-Kayode at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to officially signify the ex-minister’s defection from the opposition Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

    The move had sparked mixed reactions from supporters of both the opposition and ruling parties.

    While some criticised Fani-Kayode for joining the APC after years of attacking the party and its members, others said President Buhari shouldn’t have welcomed the former minister because he had said unprintable things about him in the past.

    But reacting to the mixed feelings generated by the former minister’s defection, Adesina called for a ceasefire.

    The presidential aide said even though Fani-Kayode had “ruffled feathers” and became “a rabid hater” of APC members after dumping the party years back, there are blessings in forgiveness.

    In an opinion article titled “Buhari, FFK, and the Quality of Mercy,” Adesina said Buhari forgave Fani-Kayode and received him “at the highest level” because the president has “an attribute of God”.

    Adesina wrote: “He has said things straight from the gutters, things that the natural man would call unforgivable and unpardonable. Against President Buhari, the first family, Yusuf Buhari whom he wished had died when the latter had an almost fatal bike accident, APC as a party, the government, leaders of the party, groups and individuals. Even this writer has suffered horrid descriptions from FFK in many write-ups.

    “Yes, he even said he would rather die than return to APC, but last week, he returned—well and alive.

    “Naturally, a lot of loyal APC members are hopping mad that FFK was readmitted into the party. And not only that, he got back at the highest level. Not at his ward in Ile-Ife, Osun State, but the triumphal entry was at the Presidential Villa, with President Buhari himself as the host.

    “I understand the umbrage taken against the development by teeming APC supporters. It’s the natural thing to do. But then, having vented spleen, raised dust and almost brought down the roof, the next thing is to isolate the issues dispassionately. With the bile displayed towards President Buhari and his family over the years, how did the man find the grace to have received FFK? How was he convinced? Who did the convincing? What were the extenuating factors? How? When? Why?

    “By agreeing to the readmission of FFK to APC as the leader of the party, and hosting him at the Villa, President Buhari displayed amazing capacity to forgive, to show mercy, and let bygones be bygones. How many of us can do that? Not many.”

    The presidential aide said Buhari could have “spat into the sky, collecting the spittle with his own face” when Fani-Kayode was led into the State House by the APC caretaker committee chairman, but instead “displayed an attribute of God: forgiveness.”

    Adesina added, “One of the lies that had been serially told against the President was his alleged unforgiving spirit, a falsehood sold to Nigerians by anti-Buhari forces since the days of military rule. The lie traveled for so long, till it was eventually overtaken by the truth in one day. Nigerians saw through the facade, and elected Buhari as President in 2015. Re-elected him with wider margin in 2019.

    “I have worked with the President for over six years. And I have seen amazing things in terms of accommodation and capacity to forgive. I have visited him at home many times in the evenings, only to find at dinner table with him people who had been abusing his forefathers on television earlier in the day. This President has a capacity to forgive, and forget. And make peace. That was what he displayed in the case of FFK. Nothing short of divine attribute, which me and you should covet and seek to approximate.

    “I think those screaming blue murder and lamenting the injustice and unfairness of it all should hold their peace. They have made their points, and should let things be. Enough! FFK is back, let sleeping dogs lie. He may stay this time round, as he claims to have had a Damascus road experience, which turned Saul to Paul.

    “Many times, FFK has used unprintable words against me. He has deployed phrases from the nether region against me. But after writing those things, and we met in public places, he would embrace me, calling me his “friend and brother.” I agree, we are brothers, though I should hold giant-sized grudges against him. President Buhari has shown us the way . To err is human, to forgive, divine.

    “And come to think of it. Is it pleasant to swallow one’s vomit? Nah. But that was what FFK did. All those foul words against the President, the APC, the government, many people in government. He has swallowed them. Delicious? By no means. Pueh! You would feel like retching. So, let’s salute the courage of his conviction. It is rare, and not many people would do it.”

  • I’m surprised Buhari agreed to meet Fani-Kayode-Yeni Kuti

    I’m surprised Buhari agreed to meet Fani-Kayode-Yeni Kuti

    Revered singer and dancer, Yeni Kuti has said she is astonished President Muhammadu Buhari agreed to meet with Femi Fani-Kayode, former aviation minister who recently changed political parties.

    Yeni, who is a daughter to Fela Kuti, the late Afrobeat legend, made this kno on the TVC Your View breakfast show.

    TheNewsGuru recalls that Fani-Kayode recently dumped the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Kuti, while deeply criticizing the politician as being “duplicitous”, stated that she was surprised Fani-Kayode was warmly received by Buhari despite having been a staunch critic of the president and the APC party in the past.

    “Someone sent me a video of how Fani-Kayode abused Buhari. I’m surprised the president met him because Fani-Kayode has insulted him a great deal. He lacks integrity and I want to give you some words to buttress it,” she said.

    “Crookedness. I do not agree that the president was magnanimous by agreeing to meet him. I can be magnanimous and reach you from afar. If you upset me and insult my person, I will not receive you and declare you a bad person.

    “Let me just: Dissembling. Dissimulation. Double-dealing. Duplicity. Fakery. Falseness. Hypocrisy. Insincerity.”

    In 2019, he Fani Kayode vowed that he would rather die than join APC which he added was run by “corrupt treasury looters”.

     

  • Buhari, Buni, Fani-Kayode and a Long Running Circus, By Ozioma Nwadike

    Buhari, Buni, Fani-Kayode and a Long Running Circus, By Ozioma Nwadike

    The picture released to the press, a few days ago, of President Buhari, Governors Mai Buni and Matawalle, Secretary Mustapha and Chief FaniKayode together at the State House to confirm the defection of the rabble rouser Fani-Kayode to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) felt dystopian, even by the gutter standards of Nigerian politics.

    It is apparent to the discerning that these folks are not by any stretch serious minded men, they looked more like a band of 3rd rate comedians than nearer anybody who should be leading anybody. Apparently to these small-minded men, the high
    offices of public trust which they occupy is to be treated like a game or worse still a circus, as shown in their repeated words and conduct. The saddest part in the ongoing burlesque is that this circus, which they are fully intent on keeping on an endless run, is not solely to the comeuppance of their fawners, protégés and fellow comedians, but has consequence in dead babies, dead
    bodies, starvation, kidnapped girls, terrorism, homelessness and extreme hunger for the people whom they claim to lead.

    In 1999, I was ten years old, and I have watched in unspeakable grief, the complete annihilation of my generation’s destiny over the course of the last twenty years by the brutal Nigerian political elite and their military and financial collaborators. A brutal elite driven only by immoral greed, unctuous tastes and stark unbridled quest for power. You wonder who are these men having no desire for honor, for glory, for love of country, love for their fellow man, responsibility, decency, for liberalism, for fairness and rule of law.

    What manner of men are driven only by base desires of marrying new wives, beholden to insular discredited worldviews of tribes and clans, and simply content to live in lavish splendor while all around them is squalor and misery.

    The Nigerian politician has no iota of shame – the Governors owe poor working class people salaries for months and still have the conscience to cruise around town in multiple land cruiser convoys. Small men with their small mentalities. As Governor Mai Buni continues to occupy the position of the Chairman of the APC in complete disregard of the express provisions of the constitution, and the President is disdainful of any prodding to see beyond his nose and the provincial aesthetics of his Daura polling booth, you
    wonder if things will ever change.

    The defections in the circus have been flying around, defections which automatically comes with the dropping of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charges and a lucrative new appointment. Currently there is chatter of the former President Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) defecting to the All Progressive Congress (APC), and all sorts of sundry shenanigans. Whether the extremely limited Jonathan joins the All
    Progressive Congress (APC) or not is beside the point, the real tragedy is that the Jonathan chatter and the already consummated defection of enfant terrible Fani Kayode is reflective of the elite’s total disregard of the intelligence of the Nigerian people. To them we are like fools and tools. It goes without saying that the deliberate impoverishing of the Nigerian people has never been the sole forte of one political party, forget the ramblings of
    the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) aligned political jobbers on Twitter who run daily interference for their paymasters, friends and business partners.

    As young middle class Nigerians continue to flee this country in their droves, and the Naira continues its own unavoidable free fall into worthlessness, it’s hard to find light at the end of the tunnel.

    You have a feeling that for the brutal Nigerian elite things must continue as it is because progress can only come at the expense of an end to their way of life – an end to their lavish parties,
    oleaginous living rooms, and gold plated IPhone gift at their ‘no known source of income’ son’s weddings.

    The entire country is immersed in despair. Centrifugal forces are combining to tear this country apart from its seams. Though I am personally skeptical of these forces. Some of these now viral prognostications, desiring to truncate our general well-being even further, are devoid of class analysis and lead by demagogues who for all I care are already showing signs to be worse than our present band of traducers. The truth rather is that any diagnosis of
    Nigeria’s predicament on grounds primarily of tribe is simplistic and lacking in hard evidence and of course plays into the time tested modus operandi of the Nigerian elite. As so-called freedom fighters fond of expensive designer suits sell their seemingly attractive but of course false propositions of ethnic domination, they would have to contend with the obvious fact that the poverty
    and human security in Baga is astronomically worse than that in Okigwe.

    In a month’s time, it will be exactly one year since the cold blooded murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of mostly ordinary young Nigerians taking their last stand at the Lekki Toll gate during the EndSars protests. The murders were live-streamed to the world, and we all saw the Nigerian government’s military arrive at the scene shortly before the shootings started, but somehow
    our media houses and social commentators still managed to create a controversy of who was responsible for the deaths. Yet it is only from that generation willing to die for their country that anything can be salvaged from this country.

    I write this with free flowing tears, overwhelming anger and
    despair, and wondering what manner of men are these who will murder young teenagers raising the national flag and singing the Nigerian anthem? Who are these monsters?

    The truth however is that the Nigerian racket is still strong, our people are divided along ethnic and religious lines than at no time in our history. This happens while the Nigerian elite intermarry and jointly attend the weddings of their sons and daughters and Fani Kayode poses in pictures with the extremist cleric Isa Pantami turned minister of communications, communications for which he knows nothing about.

    As young people continue to access Twitter through a VPN in a remarkable show of civil disobedience, I can only hope that perhaps this picture of Fani Kayode and Buhari together might jolt the Nigerian people to see these small men for
    what they are – comedians who should have no place in public offices. Also as the next election approaches, I appeal to young people all over – let us register to vote and be prepared to protect our vote. It is in the political process that we must take our last stand, no matter how long it will take. We must be bold to enter the circus and put an end to this charade.

     

    Ozioma Nwadike, a legal practitioner, can be reached on Twitter- @Bslder and E-mail – oziomanwadike23@gmail.com

  • Defection: Why Gov Umahi, Fani-Kayode deserve National Honours for deception

    Defection: Why Gov Umahi, Fani-Kayode deserve National Honours for deception

    …on my defection, Fani-Kayode lied-Umahi

    …as Nigerians are finding it difficult to differentiate who should emerge liar of the decade between both politicians

    By Emman Ovuakporie

    Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State and former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode really deserve national honours as masters of deception.

    TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) in this report will chronicle some of their chronic lies laced with imaginary truths.

    Both politicians finally jumped into a party they had painted in unprintable graffiti.

    Hear Umahi before he finally defected:

    *2019: I can’t join APC made of failed leaders
    *Nobody has invited me to join APC and I am not joining
    * I can’t be ungrateful to PDP that made me state chairman and Governor
    *Until Christ comes I will remain in PDP

    *2020: I am offering myself to APC as a matyr
    *2021: Still loading… Fani-Kayode is a liar

    July 17, 2018 Blueprint
    The Governor of Ebonyi State Engr. David Umahi has dispelled rumours making the rounds that he has plans to defect to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC in Ebonyi State.

    Governor Umahi, made the announcement Tuesday at the Government House, Abakaliki while briefing journalists.

    His declaration came barley 24 hours after Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State declared his intention to quit his party, All Progressives Congress, APC.

    Umahi said he cannot join the kind of APC with failed leaders in Ebonyi State.
    According to him, he had benefited immensely from the PDP as chairman, deputy governor, and ultimately state governor.

    He said he was focused on how to attract democratic dividends to the people of the state and not dirty politics.

    “The clarification is that my relationship with Mr. President is because he is Mr. President, and he is my boss and the relationship is personal.

    “Mr. President or any APC person has never asked me to come to APC, and they will never ask me, and there is no reason for me to leave my party PDP of which I am the party chairman,deputy governor and now governor.
    “I have always insisted in character.

    People that jumps from one party to the other should examine their characters, except if there is any problem within your party.

    “As for today ,till tomorrow until Christ comes, there is no crisis in PDP. Even if there is a need for me to leave PDP, I can never leave PDP to the kind of APC in Ebonyi State.

    “Because with the kind of leaders in Ebonyi APC, leaders that have failed Ebonyi State. I can never be on the same political platform with them.

    “I am focused to do my job. I am focused in governance. I have always insisted that we should leave party politics to our party men and women, while as soon as you are elected, you should focus on your job.

    Same Umahi called Fani-Kayode a liar.

    Now hear Fani-Kayode’s many sermons on the altar of deception:

    *After labelling Covid-19 vaccine as satanic, Fani-Kayode finally took the ‘satanic vaccine’ last May in Abuja.

    *2018:Buhari is the father of corruption and radical Islam in Nigeria-Fani-Kayode

    *2019:Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said that his recent claim that, if Vice President Yemi Osinbajo refused to resign, he would be sent to wash toilets would soon come to pass.
    The former minister stated this in response to Osinbajo’s alleged launching of ‘Use the Toilet’ campaign.

    President Muhammadu Buhari recently signed an Executive Order 009 entitled, ‘The Open Defecation-Free Nigeria by 2025 and Other Related Matters Order’ into law.

    *2021: Buhari is a changed person and he returned to his stinking vomit.

    Now between 2015 and now what will Fani say has changed Buhari after visiting PDP governors across Nigeria orchestrated by a publicity blitz then suddenly he defected?

    Nigerians are finding it difficult as to who to nominate between these two politicians for National Honours in Grand Deception and Rhetorics (GDR).

  • ‘We still dey kamkpe in PDP’, Enugu Government rubbishes Fani-Kayode’s claims that Gov Ugwuanyi is joining APC

    ‘We still dey kamkpe in PDP’, Enugu Government rubbishes Fani-Kayode’s claims that Gov Ugwuanyi is joining APC

    Enugu Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has no plans to leave the People Democratic Party(PDP) for the All Progressives Congress (APC) as insinuated by former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, the Enugu State Government has declared.

    TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that Fani-Kayode had stated on Wednesday when he joined the APC that Ugwuanyi was one of the Governors he has been talking to with a view to leaving the PDP for the ruling party.

    Reacting to the insinuation while addressing journalists on Saturday in Enugu, the chairman of Enugu Capital Territory Development Authority, (ECTDA), Dr Josef Onoh, described Fani-Kayode’s comments as a “figment of his imagination”.

    He insisted that Ugwuanyi had no plans to leave PDP.

    Onoh said that if anybody was in doubt of the Governor stable and courageous character, such a person should refer to last Thursday’s Southern Governors’ meeting in Enugu where Ugwuanyi was the only Governor from the Southeast region present.

    According to him: “What Femi Fani-Kayode said was his personal opinion, it did not reflect the opinion of the government, the state or the present state of affairs of the PDP and our governor in Enugu State.

    “Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is the leader of the PDP in the Southeast, he has just been made the National Chairman of PDP zoning committee and that shows the level of confidence the PDP as a party has in him.

    “It’s like saying that the President of Nigeria could turn around and accept to become a ward councilor. The responsibilities saddled on him, not only as a Governor but to pilot the affairs of over 100 million active registered members of the party is a huge task.

    “We respect Fani-Kayode’s conviction in joining the APC but in this game there are men of integrity and honour. I can tell you authoritatively, not just as an ally of the Governor, that the long rumour of Ugwuanyi joining the APC is false. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi in Obasanjo’s words, we still dey kamkpe in PDP.”

    Appreciating the role of opposition political parties in democracies, Onoh said there cannot be vibrant democracy without opposition,which must keep a tab on fair play and participation in politics.

    “Here in Enugu state, we in the PDP are in opposition but we respect and accommodate the APC and other political parties but the problem is that Femi Fani-Kayode mistakes Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s approach to politics to the general accepted barbaric norm played by some Nigerian politicians.

    “Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi is the Governor of Enugu State, and so he is the chief security officer of the state and the father of all political parties in Enugu State.

    “He even has the right to revoke the land that any political party office is located, but he provides security for all. If there is a problem in APC secretariat, he will ensure there is security to protect there, same as in APGA or any other party and so he is the governor of all political parties in the state but he is a registered member and an active participant of the PDP because he rules with conscience.

    “So whatever Femi Fani-Kayode said is a figment of his imagination and I want members of the general public to disregard that,” Onoh stated.

  • The snitch within has finally gone, PDP speaks on Fani-Kayode defection

    The snitch within has finally gone, PDP speaks on Fani-Kayode defection

    The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), South-West chapter, has attacked a former chieftain of the party, Femi Fani-Kayode, following his defection to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

    Fani-Kayode’s defection, according to the South-West PDP, did not come as a surprise to the party as the former aviation minister had always flirted with the APC.

    It described Fani-Kayode as a “snitch” and a “political beggar” whose “only source of income is political beginning”.

    The minister had finally announced his defection to the APC on Thursday after months of speculations goaded by his frequent meetings with governors and chieftains of the ruling party.

    But reacting through its spokesperson, Sanya Atofarati, the South West PDP thanked the APC for removing a “worthless entity” and “political liability” from its fold.

    He said, “This was a man who openly accused President Buhari of corruption as Minister of Petroleum in 1977 and cursed himself to death in 2019 if he ever attempted to join the Buhari-led APC.

    “Now, the question for Fani-Kayode is: what has changed? Have the unemployed Nigerians been employed under Buhari? Has Buhari now been able to curb the killing spree of Nigerian soldiers and kidnappings of innocent citizens by bandits and herders across the country?

    “For some of us and especially the South-West PDP, we knew the featherweight politician would defect to the APC because we had always been aware of his insincerity and unholy alliance. We in South-West PDP are the most grateful because the snitch within has finally gone home to roast (sic). We predicted earlier that those sabotaging the progress of this country will be exposed; now, Nigerians have seen it and we are vindicated.

    “FFK should not be taken seriously. Even when he was acting as a self-acclaimed PDP spokesman, many of us knew he wasn’t sincere. He was then PDP in the day and APC in the night. FFK lacks the integrity required to portray a liberator’s stature. He is a political beggar whose only source of income is in corporate begging.

    “Over the years, FFK has remained a worthless entity within the party and especially in South-West. History has it that FFK has never won any election even in his polling unit for PDP other than scavenging for political relevance.”

  • Gumi reacts to Fani-Kayode’s defection to APC, calls him Judas of Oduduwa

    Gumi reacts to Fani-Kayode’s defection to APC, calls him Judas of Oduduwa

    Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has reacted to Femi Fani-Kayode’s defection to the All Progressives Congress on Thursday, referring to him as the ‘Judas of Oduduwa.’

    In a Facebook post, Gumi on Thursday wrote: “I have for long, neglected the rantings of the Judas of Oduduwa attacking me knowing fully well that he is fake and a traitor.

    “Time has now caught up with him and thanks to Allah, all his vituperations are cast in the dustbin of merciless history.

    “It is him now, one wonders which of the seven circles of hell this duper will settle if he doesn’t repent.”

    Recall that the Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation under President Olusegun Obasanjo, has been an outspoken critic of the APC and the Buhari administration.

    Fani-Kayode, however, said that he was moved by Holy Spirit to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the APC, pointing out that he was a founding member of the ruling party.

    The former spokesman of the PDP Presidential Campaign Council was introduced to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Governor of Yobe State and chairman of the APC national caretaker committee, Mai Mala Buni and his Zamfara state counterpart, Bello Matawalle, presidential villa, Abuja on Thursday.