The Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organization, PDPPCO, Femi Fani-Kayode, has been described as a political liability to President Goodluck Jonathan.
This assertion was made in a statement issued on Wednesday by the Lagos State Office of the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation, where it pointed out that Fani-Kayode would add no value to Jonathan’s re-election bid considering that PDPPCO spokesman is no longer of any political relevenace.
The APC candidate’s statement came in reaction to the criticism of the APC’s last Saturday’s March for Change in Lagos by the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation. Fani-Kayode, Minister of State for Works, Prince Dayo Adeyeye and the PDP spokesman in Lagos, Taofeek Gani, had derided the APC event.
Coordinator of the Lagos State Office of the Buhari/Osinbajo Presidential Campaign Organisation, James Faleke, dismissed the trio of Fani-Kayode, Adeyeye and Gani, saying they were liabilities who are of no political consequence to Jonathan’s ambition.
Faleke, who is a House of Reps member, said it was expected that PDP would feel jittery after seeing the massive crowd of supporters that the APC commanded during the March for Change rally.
He maintained that the huge turnout of Lagosians which APC attracted 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.”
According to the lawmaker, “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.”
Branding the trio of Fani-Kayode, Adeyeye and Taofeek as ‘busy bodies’, 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.
His words, “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.”
Faleke ended by enjoining Nigerians to go out come March 28 and April 11 to vote for the APC at all levels of the elections.
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