PDP Urges Buhari to Ensure that FFK’s Corruption case is not ‘swept Under the Carpet’.

President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), to expedite up the corruption charges involving all the former party members who have now defected to APC.

The party emphasized in particular the case of the former Minister for Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, as one that Buhari must personally ensure is not swept under the carpet now that he has joined the APC.

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In a statement signed by its Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, and made available to journalists in Osogbo, the opposition party said that only the diligent prosecution of all former members of the PDP facing various allegations of graft who have joined the ruling party would clear the insinuations that Buhari and his men had been using anti-graft agencies to intimidate opposition members.

The PDP characterized Fani-Kayode as a political liability, a social media politician, and an useless catch for the APC who is unworthy of celebration, claiming that the former aviation minister is living on the past glories of being a minister.

The PDP also said that the Ife-born politician lacks a real following and a political foundation in Osun, his native state, or elsewhere in Nigeria.

The PDP further stated in its records that Fani-Kayode was never a member of the party because he did not identify with the party in his hometown of Ile-Ife or in Abuja, where he currently resides.

The statement read in parts: “The opportunity is now there for President Buhari to show Nigerians that he is indeed fighting corruption.

“If for nothing else, now that Fani Kayode and all the other politicians that decamped from PDP to APC with EFCC cases, we expect him to swing into action on their corruption cases and ensure a more thorough prosecution.

“With that done, he will then convince Nigerians that those defectors were not pressured into joining APC so as to free them of EFCC cases. If truly he is fighting corruption, cases of someone like Fani-Kayode, alleged of embezzling almost N2billion meant for the construction runaway in Enugu airport, must now receive speedy trial.

“Since he has joined them now, they have no need looking around for him anymore because we believe that going to them will be an opportunity to speed up action on his case.

“We declare Fani-Kayode a political liability. We are not missing him in any way. He is not a card-carrying member of PDP because he didn’t register anywhere. He has no constituency, no electoral value, no followership; he is just living on the past glory of being a minister.

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“We wish APC well for taking away a bad baggage that Fani-Kayode represents. Interestingly, APC members are even protesting against his coming to join their party.”