Former Minister of Aviation Femi Fani-Kayode has been officially received into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He was presented to President Muhammadu Buhari as the newest member of the party at the Presidential Villa on Thursday by Chairman of the APC’s Caretaker Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni and Zamfara Governor Bello Matawale.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after the meeting with Buhari, Fani-Kayode said he decamped from the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for the sake of national unity. He said he had been responsible for many other defections into the ruling party.
According to him, he was instrumental to defection of three PDP Governor to APC, including Dave Umahi (Ebonyi); Ben Ayade (Cross River) and Bello Matawale (Zamfara). He further said he has friends across party lines and was wooing Governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu); Seyi Makinde (Oyo) and Bala Mohammed (Bauchi) to join the ruling party.
It would be recalled that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode had launched verbal attack on the Cross River State-based journalist, Eyo Charles, over a question the former minister considered embarrassing. Fani-Kayode had launched verbal assaulted on the journalist for daring to ask a question bordering on the source of the funding of his tour of projects in some states.
Recalled also that Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello had in February claimed that Fani-Kayode had crossed over to the APC. But Fani-Kayode debunked Bello’s claim, insisting that he was still a member of PDP. The former minister’s defection comes several months after he vehemently denied dumping the PDP.