The All Progressives Congress on Monday
threatened to slam a lawsuit on Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, spokesman for
the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan, and the Peoples
Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation following their
claim of an oath-taking pact between Prof. Yemi Osinbajo and Asiwaju
Bola Tinubu.
The APC said it would commence legal
proceedings unless the PDP presidential campaign body and its
spokesperson produced evidence to support their claim.
Fani-Kayode had reportedly claimed that
Osinbajo, the APC vice-presidential candidate, and Tinubu had sworn to
an oath that the former would resign for the latter to take over as vice
president if the APC candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) wins
the presidential election.
The threat to sue was contained in a
statement by the Director, Media and Publicity of the APC Presidential
Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu.
The APC campaign warned the PDP and
Fani-Kayode to either show evidence of the oath-taking or retract the
libellous claim within 72 hours or be ready to be charged to a court of
law.
The statement partly read, “For the PDP,
through Fani-Kayode, to state publicly that an erudite Professor of
Law, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a reputable Pastor of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, swore an oath to vacate his seat as the Vice
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for the National Leader of
the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should the party win the forthcoming
election is an attack on the hard-won integrity and the reputations of
these great Nigerians and APC stalwarts.
“We view this as both slanderous and
libellous and therefore will not leave the matter to chance. To this
effect, we hereby give Femi Fani-Kayode and the PDP 72 hours to produce
evidence or in the alternative issue public apology to Pastor Yemi
Osinbajo, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and our party the APC or be prepared to be
charged to the court of law.”
In another development, the APC Campaign
Organisation said President Goodluck Jonathan had himself to blame for
the poor quality of aides and advice that he had benefited from since
his days as Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State.
It said that the recent statement
credited to the President, that most of the advice that he received from
his aides had been worthless 80 per cent of the time, was a clear
demonstration that the President lacked sound judgment.
Shehu said, “We in the APC consider it
an act of God, especially a few weeks to the March 28, 2015 presidential
polls, that President Jonathan who insists on his re-election should
make this revelation which to a large extent gives a deep insight into
his person and character.”
The APC has also said that it did not
wish Fani-Kayode ill health though the opposition party said it was
“seriously concerned” about the mental state of the spokesperson for the
Jonathan campaign.
The spokesman of the APC, Alhaji Lai
Mohammed, in a statement from Dubai in the United Arab Emirate, on
Monday, said Fani-Kayode might have “relapsed into a lifestyle of
substance abuse.”
The APC said, “We wish Mr. Fani-Kayode
well and call on him to tell Nigerians that he remains clean, despite
the massive pressure of work, and that he will not do anything that will
see him needing a prolonged reformation in a foreign land.
“It is only an unstable mind and someone
who is teetering on the brink that will conjure up the kind of
improbable scenarios that have been put out there in quick succession by
Mr. Fani-Kayode, and still believe strongly that he is doing the right
thing.
“The APC does not harbour the kind of
disturbed personalities who abound in the PDP, and who will not hesitate
to publicly wish fellow Nigerians ill or dead, as long as they believe
such ill-will would endear them to their masters and guarantee their
political survival.”
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