Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode criticized Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), during a Friday appearance on Channels Television’s Politics Today program.
Fani-Kayode, a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), accused Abubakar of working against former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration and said that he “cannot be relied upon” by the Nigerian people.
The APC member also dismissed the chances of Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi in the 2023 elections, saying that APC presidential flag bearer Bola Ahmed Tinubu was more qualified.
“Atiku always talks about how wonderful Obasanjo’s administration was, and he is right. Yet Atiku sought to betray, destroy and undermine that government to the extent that I personally ask him to leave the cabinet because he was working against us,” he said.
“So he cannot be relied upon. Somebody who couldn’t not be trusted during Obasanjo’s government cannot be relied upon by the Nigerian people. He has taken out five governors in the party, destroyed the party and denied Southerner’s presidential ticket and chairmanship of the party. As far as we are concerned, this is one of the reasons Tinubu is ahead of him.
“The other one issued ID cards for northerners when he was Governor of Anambra State. He bears the symbol of Biafra. His running mate said homosexuals should be publicly executed. The ignorance of Datti Baba-Ahmed is monumental.”
