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Akinwande Soji-Ojo
A spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party’s Presidential Campaign, Senator Dino Melaye, has berated former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, over his latest comment against him.
Melaye had claimed that all governors on PDP platform spent money on ensuring that Iyorchia Ayu emerged as the party’s national chairman.
Reacting, Fani-Kayode knocked Melaye for making such comment, urging security operatives to arrest and prosecute Ayu and the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
However, Fani-Kayode’s comment did not go down well with Melaye, who took to his verified Facebook page on Sunday night to lambast the former minister, describing the him as a “political scavenger.”
“My attention has just been drawn to a statement issued by Femi Fani-Kayode, which as usual, was an incoherent gibberish produced from his temporary relief from insanity. How can one explain his momentary consciousness to react to an interview long granted, if not that his world of reality is not in sync with the world of sound minds? His comment was at best a mixture of prevarication, lack of comprehension and a voyage in meddlesomeness and idleness.
“Truly, an idle hand and heart like that of FFK is the devil’s residence. Ordinarily, his rambling would have been ignored, but in this age of unrestricted access to the media even by unwholesome minds, care must be taken to put issues in the right context and perspective. The roller-coaster FFK is merely seeking to receive attention, having employed all forms of ingratiation to be recruited by the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar, but failed,” he said.
The PDP presidential spokesperon noted that Fani-Kayode contacted Timi Frank in a bid to lobby for a position in the Atiku-Okowa presidential campaign team.
“To be sure, he contacted Timi Frank to help lobby for a job in the Campaign Directorate, but where is the record to help his desire? As a serial hustler around food dispensers, FFK’s misadventure into the issue of the leadership of the PDP is nothing but a subtle campaign to be noticed and rewarded by prospective paymasters.
“Nigerians cannot forget in a hurry how FFK bootlicked and cajoled Yahaya Bello during his presidential experiment, but later jumped to the presidential train of Senator Ahmed Lawan in the throes of the presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress in an unabashed and unconscionable manner. Now that campaign structures have been formed by parties and he’s sidelined, having lost face everywhere, he has found the PDP as the access card to his next meal,” he said.
Melaye emphasised that Ayu was supported by PDP governors and members of the party, and emerged the party’s National Working Committee’s Chairman by consensus, due to his reputation and political profile.
“Is FFK so obtuse that he can not understand that delegates could not have trekked from everywhere to Abuja without being transported? Has he not recovered well enough from the doses administered during his rehabilitation to understand that governors and other leaders supported delegates from all states to the National Convention? Is he equating the sound mind of Judges with his own reprobate mind that he’s threatening to go to court over a matter that he has neither locus nor a reasonable cause?
“Often when the issue of FFK comes up, I easily call to mind the time-standing analysis by ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, of his personality, and the assertion that food is FFK’s price. His likes are appropriately described in Philippians 3:19, as belonging to the class of those ‘whose god is their belly, and whose glory is their shame. Sorry, PDP has no food for the lazy. And knowing FFK’s reputation for political scavenging, let me also ask him the unanswered question. FFK, who bankrolled your statement?” he added.