A group of legal practitioners under the auspices of the Progressive Lawyers for Osinbajo has called on former aviation minister, Mr Femi Fani-Kayode, to apologize to Nigerians for recanting on his advocacy against a Muslim-Muslim ticket because he was made Director of New Media/Special Media Project of Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council.
The call is contained in a statement issued by the group’s publicity secretary, Tom Praise Adoje, while referencing a recent newspaper publication credited to Mr. Fani-Kayode, and titled “Yemi Osinbajo, Bola Tinubu and Queen Elizabeth’s Funeral”, on Tuesday, in Abuja.
The group said Mr. Fani-Kayode, in the article, attempted to promote the APC’s same faith ticket, and curiously calling on the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to support it.
“How can he openly criticized the same faith ticket in the past, and now soliciting Prof. Osinbajo’s support for it?
“Fani-Kayode recounted the story of Absalom, but what about him completely denying and betraying his own faith. Is that not a worse story of Judas? It is disappointing that those who believed in his strident crusade against Muslim-Muslim ticket in 2015 are now wondering what explains his sudden change of belief.
Noting his conducts and utterances through several written and video messages, opposing the same idea in the past, FFK latest admiration for the same faith ticket is questionable and ridiculous.” The group said.
The group who condemned the former minster’s comments on Vice President Osinbajo, asked him to retract his words and apologise to Nigerians. It also described as misleading to credit the VP’s political successes to the presidential candidate of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
It said “as against the uninformed thought of FFK, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo came for an enviable pedigree, his life records are opened to the public; they are not questionable. His political records cannot solely be credited to a man. They should add that the VP served as Special Adviser to the Attorney-General of the Federation in 1988, and state who takes that credit.
“We do not know which version of FFK to believe or which is the real or fake. This is what social duplicity means and the unstable public commentator called Fani-Kayode is the best expression of a political chameleon. We demand he apologises to Nigerians for his crooked manifestation of tomfoolery. He has exposed his lack of integrity and betrayal of faith.
“He has clearly eaten his words, having pointed out the disadvantages of same faith ticket, in many articles, a typical example being an Op-Ed published in the Premium Times in 2014 and titled, ‘APC and the strange dream of Muslim/Muslim Ticket.”
The group further said “this is a trait that FFK has prepared to fail in his assignment as Director in the Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council. That article was in no form a special and well thought out project. It is simply to brew intraparty rancour that can destroy the chances of the party in the 2023 presidential election.”
