“Atiku Single-Handedly Did What No One Managed to Do Since 1999”: Fani-Kayode Chides VP

“Atiku Single-Handedly Did What No One Managed to Do Since 1999”: Fani-Kayode Chides VP

  • Femi Fani-Kayode, an APC chieftain, has mocked Atiku Abubakar, the PDP candidate in the February 25 presidential election
  • Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation, said Atiku singlehandedly killed the PDP to the extent that it would never rise again
  • The chieftain of the APC said Nigerians owed Atiku gratitude for his unprecedented actions in the just concluded 2023 elections

Femi Fani-Kayode, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has mocked Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s presidential candidate, in the 2023 presidential election.

Fani-Kayode, a former aviation minister, said Nigerians owed the former vice president gratitude for single-handedly burying the PDP in Nigeria.

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FFK mocks Atiku over PDP crisis. Photo Credit: Femi Fani-Kayode
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The chieftain of the APC made the comment in a Twitter post on Friday, May 12.

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He maintained that Atiku's actions during the February 25 presidential election were unprecedented and that Nigerians ought to be grateful to him for killing the opposition party in Nigeria.

Fani-Kayode said:

"One thing we can't take from @atiku, the Waziri Adamawa, is the fact that he single-handedly did what no-one else managed to do since 1999: he murdered & buried the PDP & ensured that it can NEVER be resurrected or rise again. For this alone, Nigeria owes him a debt of gratitude."

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Fani-Kayode was also the director of special operations and news media of the APC presidential campaign council in the last general election, where Bola Tinubu won the poll with a close margin.

Since the emergence of Tinubu as the president-elect, Atiku has refused to concede defeat. He is currently challenging the outcome of the poll at the 2023 presidential election petition tribunal in Abuja. The hearings started on Monday, May 8.

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PDP Crisis: Wike, Makinde, others shun parley with Atiku, other party leaders

Legit.ng earlier reported that PDP's crisis might be taking a turn for the worse as Governor Nyesom Wike and other G5 governors failed to appear at the party's first leaders' meeting after the election.

Atiku Abubakar and Ifeanyi Okowa, the party's presidential and vice presidential candidates, were in attendance at the event held at Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja.

It was learnt that the chairman of the PDP governors' forum, Aminu Tambuwal, sent invitations to the governors, but their absence showed they declined the invitation.

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Bada Yusuf (Politics and Current Affairs Editor) Yusuf Amoo Bada is an accomplished writer with 7 years of experience in journalism and writing, he is also politics and current affairs editor with Legit.ng. He holds B.A in Literature from OAU, and Diploma in Mass Comm. He has obtained certificates in Google's Advance Digital Reporting, News Lab workshop. He previously worked as an Editor with OperaNews. Legit’s Best Editor of the Year for Politics and Current Affairs Desk (2023). Contact: bada.yusuf.amoo@corp.legit.ng