▪︎Gov Yahaya Bello claims FFK approached him he wanted to join APC
▪︎ I have not left PDP, declares FFK
The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, said a former Minister of Aviation and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined the All Progressives Co ngress.
Bello said this in a video that went viral on Wednesday.
Fani-kayode immediately responded to clarify that he had yet to leave the PDP.
“Though we have had meetings across party lines and we are in a season of political consultation, I have not left the PDP,” Fani-Kayode declared on his twitter handle Wednesday evening.
Fani-Kayode had earlier in the week visited Bello and the Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, who also serves as the National Chairman of the APC, in Abuja.
Speaking in the video in which Fani-Kayode was not shown but appeared he was at the venue, Bello said: “We are here to educate Nigerians, irrespective of their background.
“Our brother and friend, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has joined our party in good faith.
“He’s joining our party to come and add his own positive energy and make contributions into ensuring that APC is a party to beat.
“Remember Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was a foundation member of this great party.
“Due to misunderstanding, he decided to port elsewhere before.
“Now he has decided to join our party, approached me and by the mandate given to me by our party, I must not segregate, I must not discriminate against any individual, even if he has his different opinion about the party before, about the government before and he has seen the light, the reality and the need to join the APC.
“It is just nice, it is just important, it is just good and very, very sweet to accommodate and welcome Chief Fani-Kayode to come and join this party.
“Remember that this party does not belong to one individual.
“It belongs to all Nigerians.”
Fani-Kayode is expected to speak more on the haze that his reported defection to the APC has created.
The final words are with him, a close watcher of the development said. “He should not act cowardly. He should be decisive as a man and do what his heart tells him to do without vacillating,” he said.
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