The crisis rocking the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday
took a new dimension as the
Director of Media and Publicity of
the party’s presidential campaign
organisation, Chief Femi Fani-
Kayode, described some
members of the National Working
Committee (NWC) of the party as
traitors, ingrate and cowards not
deserving of their offices.
Fani-Kayode dismissed the
allegations of hate campaigns
allegedly orchestrated by the
campaign directorate as one of
the reasons why President
Goodluck Jonathan lost the
presidential election and indeed
PDP losing the general election.
He called on the NWC members to
resign if they have any modicum
of dignity as some Labour leaders
did after losing elections in the
United Kingdom.
Fani-Kayode also accused the NWC
of using hate campaigns against
the All Progressives Congress
(APC) as it described APC as a
‘supporter of APC’ and Taliban party.
The National Publicity Secretary of
PDP, Olisa Metuh, had last week
said President Jonathan lost the
presidential election because of
the hate campaigns introduced by
the presidential campaign
organisation of the party.
But reacting yesterday, Fani-
Kayode dismissed the allegation,
saying: “The truth is that their
allegations are 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
Jonathan, or in ensuring that he
won the election.”
According the PDP presidential
campaign spokesman, the NWC of
the party were envious of the
campaign council, saying: “From
day one, all they did was sulk
about the fact that a presidential
campaign organisation had been
set up and that they would not be
able to have control of the
campaign themselves or have
access to the resources that we
were given. At every point, they
tried to undermine our efforts and
sabotage us but we ignored them
and remained focused on doing
our job despite their provocations.
“From day one, all they were
interested in was controlling
others and telling them what to
do. They were not in the fray, they
refused to enter the heat of battle
and all they did was moan and
bicker from the side walk like little
children.
“What we were doing and
attempting to do was lost on them
because they had never taken
anything seriously and they found
it hard to comprehend the logic
and style of those of us who did
it.
“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. They were
envious of the PDP presidential
campaign organisation and its
high profile and they are nothing
but a bunch of bitter and
treacherous ingrates who have no
business leading a political party.”
However, he exonerated some of
the NWC members, explaining
that: “It is important to note that
not all of them were bad. Some of
them like Uche Secondus, Kema
Chikwe, Jalo, Wale Oladipo, the
National Youth Leader and a few
others did very best and
supported the president as best
as they could but the majority of
them were terrible.”
According to Fani-Kayode, “What
they need to understand and
appreciate is that we will not sit
by idly and allow them re-write
history or make us the fall guys.
The only reason we have not
opened up on them is out of
respect for President Jonathan and
because we want to ensure that
our party remains united. That
does not however mean that we
are fools or that we will allow
ourselves to be turned into sitting
ducks or someone’s punching bag.
“That does not mean that we will
allow them to treat us as soft
targets or that we are incapable of
hitting back. The lies, falsehood,
innuendos and terrible stories
that they are bandying around
about us are just despicable and if
they do not stop, they will divide
the party and utterly destroy it.
That is the sad and bitter truth. In
playing this game blame and
pointing fingers at others, they
are biting off far more than they
can chew.
“The fact is that the presidential
campaign organisation not only
did an excellent job but we also
fought a damn good fight. We
fought a better fight than any
other organ of the party had
fought over the last two or three
years against a relentless, well-
funded, well-motivated and well-
organised opposition. Before the
presidential campaign orgaisation
came into being, the PDP had
virtually lost its voice and those
who do not recognise this have
obviously lost touch with reality.
Those that attack us and cast
aspersion on our character and
blame us for the failure of our
party and our president to win the
election are not seeing things
clearly.
“They are hopelessly confused and
they have no idea how political
campaigns are conducted in the
civilised world. Their accusations
are not only baseless, but they are
also self serving,” he said.
Fani-Kayode said: “Again looking
inwards, was it the presidential
campaign organisation that first
coined the phrase supporter of APC and
Taliban party and labelled the APC
as the supporter of APC and Taliban
party? No, it was not. It was
nobody in our campaign
organisation rather it was
somebody in the NWC of the PDP.
Is that not what you call a
campaign of hatred? “
He accused the NWC members of
doing underhand deal with the
aspirants in the primary elections.
“Instead of leading the party these
few individuals in the NWC were
busy doing deals with the APC
secretly. We in the Campaign
Organisation were not like others
that were collecting monies from
all the various PDP aspirants in
the states and promising them the
party’s nomination and ticket.
“This led to a lot of problems
within the party because in the
end they did not give those
aspirants what they asked for and
what they promised. Consequently many of those aspirants rebelled
and worked against us during the
elections,” Fani-Kayode said

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