Director of Media and Publicity of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO), Chief Femi Fani-Kayode has said the newspaper advertorials of his views that attacked President Goodluck Jonathan before his return to the PDP now being used by All Progressives Congress (APC) had been renounced by him and were outdated.
He described the action as a measure of the opposition party’s desperation.
Fani-Kayode said the resort to such “childish and dirty tactics” by the APC would not distract him from his present assignment of selling the candidature of President Jonathan to the electorate and the Nigerian people while exposing the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari as incapable and unfit to rule Nigeria.
In a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja, Fani-Kayode said, “The APC have resorted to buying full page adverts of outdated quotes about President Goodluck Jonathan from old essays written by me when I was in their ranks.
“This proves the measure of their desperation. Needless to say I renounced those views about President Jonathan long ago and since then I have returned to the PDP and have given my unflinching support both to him and the party.I shall continue to do so because I regard the APC as an evil party and their Presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, as incapable of and unfit to rule our country.
“All the old and outdated quotes in the world cannot change that and I shall not be deterred or distracted from my present assignment by such childish and dirty tactics.
“One wonders whether the APC has forgotten what Nasir El Rufai once said about General Buhari being ”outdated and unelectable” and what Bola Tinubu once said about Buhari being ”obsessed with power, wicked, sadistic and unreliable. Better still, have they forgotten what Buhari himself once said about Bola Tinubu and his ACN governors as being ”corrupt, treacherous, unstable and unreliable”?
“Clearly, the APC has an obsession with me and my words (past, present or future) and let me assure them that I shall continue to focus my guns on them over the next two weeks regardless of their paid television and newspaper adverts about me.I shall continue to expose them for the violent men, heartless cultists and dirty ritualists that they are to the Nigerian people.”