A former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will regain control of the entire South-West, by sweeping the votes in the region in the 2015 general election.
Fani-Kayode, who
expressed the optimism in an interview on African Independent Television
(AIT), monitored in Ibadan, on Sunday, stressed that the PDP would
uproot the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the region.
He said with the return of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, the inauguration of Governor Ayo Fayose’s administration in Ekiti State and other strong politicians in the party, PDP was on its way to a landslide in the South-West.
When told that former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, still had issues with the PDP, the former minister said he was confident Obasanjo, whom he described as a world leader, would work with the PDP, because he had reiterated his membership of the party.
Speaking on the clamour for the return of President Goodluck Jonathan by the various support groups, Fani-Kayode said it was a good thing to return Jonathan to consolidate the transformation of the country.
On his knack for stirring controversies, he said as a reformer, it was natural for controversies to be woven around his person, even over non-issues by people who profit from the status quo ante at the expense of the toiling masses.
“As a reformer, I am ready to remove any obstacle in the way of reform and I know that doing this means fighting against the system. So, the system is expected to fight back,” he said.
He reiterated that he dumped the APC because he was convinced the party had a “clear-cut Islamic agenda” that could spell doom for the country and also had link with the deadly insurgent sect, Boko Haram.
He dispelled insinuation that he returned to the PDP over the case he had with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), saying he was lured back into the party with Jonathan’s addressing the marginalisation of the Yoruba with the appointment of a Yoruba man as his Chief of Staff, among other things.
#Source: #Tribune_News.
— He said with the return of Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State, former governor of Ogun State, Chief Gbenga Daniel, the inauguration of Governor Ayo Fayose’s administration in Ekiti State and other strong politicians in the party, PDP was on its way to a landslide in the South-West.
When told that former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, still had issues with the PDP, the former minister said he was confident Obasanjo, whom he described as a world leader, would work with the PDP, because he had reiterated his membership of the party.
Speaking on the clamour for the return of President Goodluck Jonathan by the various support groups, Fani-Kayode said it was a good thing to return Jonathan to consolidate the transformation of the country.
On his knack for stirring controversies, he said as a reformer, it was natural for controversies to be woven around his person, even over non-issues by people who profit from the status quo ante at the expense of the toiling masses.
“As a reformer, I am ready to remove any obstacle in the way of reform and I know that doing this means fighting against the system. So, the system is expected to fight back,” he said.
He reiterated that he dumped the APC because he was convinced the party had a “clear-cut Islamic agenda” that could spell doom for the country and also had link with the deadly insurgent sect, Boko Haram.
He dispelled insinuation that he returned to the PDP over the case he had with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), saying he was lured back into the party with Jonathan’s addressing the marginalisation of the Yoruba with the appointment of a Yoruba man as his Chief of Staff, among other things.
#Source: #Tribune_News.
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