Fani-Kayode attacks Saraki for leading team to persuade Jonathan not to leave PDP

FORMER Aviation Minsiter, Femi Fani-Kayode has said former Governor of Kwara State has no moral justification for leading a team to persuade former President, Goodluck Jonathan not to leave the People’s Democratic Party.

Fani-Kayode said this against the recent visit of Saraki, who led some PDP leaders, to Jonathan’s house.

The immediate past Senate President and other PDP stalwarts had made the move with the sole aim of prevailing upon the ex-president not to PDP amid rumours that he might dump the party for the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to purportedly pursue presidential ambition which is constitutionally qualified to.

Saraki is leading the PDP Reconciliation and Strategy Committee to dialogue with aggrieved PDP members in a bid to strengthen the party ahead the 2023 presidential election.

But Fani-Kayode said Saraki’s action reeks of hypocrisy adding that the former governor spearheaded a rebellion against Jonathan in 2014 and created a splintered party, N-PDP, largely dominated by his loyalists and PDP governors who defected to the APC in the buildup to the 2015 general election.

He said Saraki’s action and the defected governors cost Jonathan to lose the 2015 presidential election.

Fani-Kayode, though, did not mention Saraki’s name, described as irony the new move by the former Senate President after he bit Jonathan in 2015.

“Interesting to note that the man that led the team to GEJ’s house to appeal to him not to leave the PDP yesterday is the same man that led the rebellion against him and the defection of Governors from the same party in 2014 and cost him the 2015 presidential election. What an irony!” he tweeted.

Saraki has been making several move at bringing PDP members together to strengthen the bond ahead of the presidency.

After meeting with Jonathan with the team, he had also met with all former governors elected under PDP not to defect and to come together to strategise for 2023.

“At today’s meeting with the former Governors that have been elected under the platform of the @OfficialPDPNig, they promised the members of the #PDPReconciliation & Strategy Committee that moving forward they will be more active in the affairs of the party at all levels,” Saraki said.