Fani-Kayode: My Work saved Jonathan from Humiliating Defeat

Femi Fani-Kayode is talking tough again. Below is his latest reaction to Goodluck Jonathan's defeat:

PDP National Working Committee has blamed the loss of the party in the March 28 presidential poll on hate speech embarked upon by some party officials particularly some members of its presidential campaign organisation. Is this assertion correct?This is an assertion that I have refused to comment on since the allegation was made. Ever since the conclusion of the presidential election, I have been asked the question you have just asked me more than any other and I believe that, for posterity’s sake, it is time to set the record straight.

Everywhere I go this question of hate campaign is raised and frankly I am tired of it. Worse still some people are beginning to believe it because we have refused to clear the air. We cannot be expected to remain silent forever when faced with such a grave allegation. 

This is all the more so because it is my directorate, the directorate of media and publicity and team that they sought to target, malign and discredit more than anyone else even though they did not mention my name or my directorate.

The truth is that I have no hate in me and neither did anyone in the campaign organisation or in my directorate. We are serious-minded, patriotic, loyal, faithful, responsible and hard-working party leaders, many of whom have either been federal ministers, senators or state governors in the past, who chose to answer a call to duty by our president and who made massive sacrifices in terms of time, energy, commitment and risk and stood up for our president who asked them to do so. They stood up for the president and fought for him when he was faced with the most vicious, malicious and hateful gunfire that this country has ever known. They fought for him gallantly when he was faced with the most effective and ruthless campaign of calumny that this country has ever known from an opposition that was ruthlessly efficient in all its ways and that was not prepared to spare him or take any prisoners. 

The truth is that the APC media machine was awesome yet we engaged them fire for fire and bullet for bullet and I do not regret that. If we had not done so, we would have lost the election by at least 10 million more votes than we did. We spoke the truth, we engaged the enemy on all fronts and we not only fought them to a standstill but for the first time since the establishment of the APC, they were put on the defensive. This was a great achievement for which we ought to be thanked and not one for which we should be maligned, misrepresented and insulted. If one or two members of the NWC are so ignorant that they cannot make a distinction between virile political banter and a hate campaign that is their problem. 

The truth is that their allegation is not only baseless but it is also unadulterated rubbish and those who made them are nothing but ingrates, cowards and traitors who know nothing about politics, political campaigns, intellectual discourse or political engagement. They are simply trying to revise and re-write history in order to cover up their treachery, weaknesses and inadequacies. They are fuelled by hate and envy and worse of all, right from the start, they had no interest in fighting for our leader and presidential candidate, President Goodluck Jonathan or in ensuring that he won the election. Their arrogance was insufferable, they were an unmitigated disaster and their leadership style was abysmal. It still is. 

If any group of people were responsible for our loss, it was them. It is important to note that not all of them were bad. Some of them like Uche Secundus, Kema Chikwe, Barrister Jalo, Wale Oladipo, the National Youth Leader and a few others did their very best and supported the president as best as they could but the majority of them were terrible.

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