Former Minister of Aviation and the Director Public Engagements, Special Operations/Projects and New Media of the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Organisation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has warned that Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will destroy Nigeria the way he did to his party.
Fani-Kayode, in a statement he signed Wednesday in Abuja, was responding to comments credited to the governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki, that Nigeria will break if the ruling party wins in 2023.
He said the notion that Nigeria will break up if APC candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the party wins the presidential election in 2023 “is as nonsensical and puerile as it is asinine.
“The corollary of this view is that Nigeria can only remain together if Atiku wins. Atiku is by far the most destructive force that has bedevilled the fourth Republic.
“Not only did he attempt to destroy President Olusegun Obasanjo and his administration which he served from 1999 till 2007 but he also destroyed the chances of his party the PDP and President Goodluck Jonathan from winning the presidential election in 2015 by his infamous deceit and betrayal.”
The former minister said Atiku is surrounded by “by a group of shady businessmen and wild and hungry touts who spend their time throwing crazy parties behind closed doors in exotic locations like Dubai, Paris and Morocco and who have no idea or knowledge about how to address our nation’s problems or run a modern nation-state.”
According to Fani-Kayode, Placing Nigeria in the hands of such a man (Atiku) and such people will surely be our end.
“If he ever becomes President he will destroy Nigeria itself in precisely the same way that he has destroyed the PDP.
“He will suck out the very soul of our nation with all its goodness and virtues and leave us a shadow of our former selves.
“Finally to those that say that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a dictator I say this: if Tinubu is a dictator then Atiku is a serial political scammer and incredulous schemer who cannot be trusted by anyone and who would sell his soul to the devil for power.
“We know who the dictators are and Asiwaju is not amongst them.”