The Director General (DG) of Voice Of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has said that Femi Fani-kayode, the former Aviation Minister and member of the APC Presidential Campaign Council, joined the ruling party from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some of his comments especially on hate speech and ethnic profiling are not the views of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, or the party.
The DG who spoke on Arise TV condemned the actions of some of his party members for promoting ethnic profiling and hate speech.
“We have done a lot in infrastructure, agriculture, we paid teachers’ salaries, we cannot be written off.
“The only thing is that some of our people don’t know what we have achieved, rather they resorted to primordial sentiments. I cannot support that,” Okechukwu.
Responding to questions as to whether Fani-Kayode was not speaking the mind of Tinubu, and also the action of the former Minister on social media where he spoke about the British envoy, in a derogatory manner, calling him small bald headed, unlettered man, and other inciting and ethnic profiling comments that Fani-Kayode engaged in especially during the 2023 general elections, Okechukwu said,
“The President-elect that I know from 1998 wouldn’t reflect such views. Did you ask, why the Northern governors of APC wrote a letter to Mr. President on June 4th before the primaries, and said that we would go South in the national interest.
“They jettisoned their ambitions to become president. They said that they were going to choose from the South. At the end of the day, it landed on Asiwaju’s table. Why did they vote for Asiwaju? It was because of his compassion. He has assisted people everywhere.
“If you know about my friend Fani-Kayode, he came from PDP. Some of these people transferred to APC. I don’t think that his statements reflect Asiwaju’s position,” he added.
- FG moves to secure natural resources, as presidential committee meets service chiefs - January 25, 2024
- Kogi govt pays JAMB registration fees for 15,033 public school students - January 24, 2024
- Edo Guber: APC debunks aspirants screening disqualification rumours - January 24, 2024
