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Former Minister of Aviation and Director, New Media of the Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) made the best decision by suspending its presidential campaign until it settles with the camp of Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike.
There were media reports on Wednesday that the oppoisition PDP had suspended its campaign indefinitely in order to resolve the crisis within the party. A claim the party has denied.
Recall that five governors, namely Wike (Rivers), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Samuel Ortom (Benue), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu) were all absent at the flag off of the PDP presidential campaign in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Monday.
The five governors have vowed not to support or campaign for the PDP until the party’s national chairman, Sen Iyorchia Ayu, resigns from his position.
In a Twitter thread on Thursday, Fani-Kayode said without settling with Wike, PDP’s defeat would be so crushing and devastating that they may fall into a coma and never recover from it
He wrote: “Though they keep denying it, the best decision that the PDP has made is to suspend its campaign until they settle with the Wike group.
“Outside of that I fear for them going into this battle.It would be like a featherweight going into the ring with a super heavyweight.
“Their defeat would be so crushing and devastating that they may fall into a coma and never recover from it.Worse still the whole thing would only last for a few seconds and the audience would not get their money’s worth.
“There would be no joy or entertainment in that.
“No-one wants to fight a man that only has one leg.To make it a clean and hard fight let them come together and join ranks so that when we defeat them before the world and remove their soiled pants they will have no excuses.
“Meeting them in battle without Wike & his 5 Governors in their ranks will be like fighting a one armed man & there is no honor or glory in that.
“I want us to meet a strong PDP army in the field and take them head on, eyeball to eyeball, like the true warriors that we are.
“I do not want us to meet a weak, divided, dissipated, anaemic, cancerous, leperous, diseased, accursed and pitiful bunch of confused renegades, bum-spreaders and hungry termites who are nothing more than a mere shadow of a party that was once great and noble in its ways.
“The OBJ, UMYA and GEJ PDP died long ago. That is a notorious fact.Those that control the party today killed it.
“What they have left is a haunting ghost & shadow of its former self, led & driven by a vicious, capricious, greedy & dangerous bunch of thuggish, brash & loud-mouthed thugs, court jesters & gangsters & a rappacious conglomeration of self-serving, malevolent & deluded men who are not fit for public office. Give them power & “share the money” will have new meaning. Put them in charge of the FG & Nigeria will not only be finished but will also be finally flushed down the toilet, never to return. God forbid such a thing.
“Thank God for ABAT & APC!”