YOU ARE A POLITICAL LIABILITY TO JONATHAN, APC TELLS FANI-KAYODE

Nigeria's opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), today posited that spokesman for President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign organisation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, remains a political liability to President Goodluck Jonathan.

In a statement from the Lagos State office of the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation, the opposition party argued that Fani-Kayode will not add any value to the re-election bid of President Jonathan since he no longer enjoys any political relevance.

The APC is apparently reacting to the criticism of the party's last Saturday’s March for Change in the state by the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Specifically, Fani-Kayode, Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and the PDP spokesman in Lagos, Taofeek Gani, had lambasted the APC’s rally.

However, coordinator of the Lagos State Office of the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation, James Faleke, threw out the arguments of Fani-Kayode, Adeyeye and Gani, insisting that they were liabilities of no political consequence to the ambition of president Jonathan.

The coordinator who is also a member of the House of Representatives maintained that it was expected that PDP would feel jittery after seeing the massive crowd of supporters that the APC commanded during the rally.

Faleke explained that, "The large turnout of Lagosians that the APC enjoyed during its last weekend rally was a clear demonstration of the peoples’ preference for the change which the APC was bringing on board as opposed to the PDP which was a sinking ship.

"It is instructive that this show of support came barely a week after the relocation of Mr. President to Lagos for two consecutive weekends. While Mr. President hid in the State House where he clandestinely induced the electorate with money, the APC launched out with confidence in the open and the people identified with us because they see our party as the vehicle of change and progress."

Faleke said, "The APC’s walk from Maryland Junction through Ikorodu Road to the stadium at Ojuelegba, Surulere on Lagos mainland, was streamed live on a cable television for the whole world to see.

"I wonder why they are crying more than the bereaved. Those are the reactions of a jittery and desperate party. It is unfortunate that those who have no political base are the ones criticising a well-attended march where Lagosians, from all walks of life, showed their love and renewed support for the change represented by Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Prof Yemi Osinbajo.

"We asked for one million, the turn out we recorded was over two million. We also appreciate our leaders who demonstrated their fitness and offered a good example by enduring the 9.2 kilometre walk for freedom."

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