Femi Fani-Kayode, a former minister of aviation and senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), claimed that Peter Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party in the recently concluded presidential election, and his running mate, Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, intended to rewrite the history of the nation with their actions following the February 25th election.
According to Naija News, Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who finished in second place, and Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who was declared the election’s victor by the Independent National Electoral Commission, finished ahead of Obi in the 2023 presidential race (INEC).
Fani-Kayode claimed on Friday (today) that Obi and his running companion were full of hatred and could not accept defeat; as a result, they seek to rewrite Nigeria’s history in response to the Labour Party candidate’s rejection of the presidential election result conclusion.
Fani-Kayode claimed that the pair and their party want to impose their will on Nigerians, who in his opinion gave Tinubu their support during the election.
The APC leader went on to mock Obi and Yusuf Datti, claiming that they were using religion and ethnicity as weapons in their attempt to undermine Nigerian culture and degrade its values.
They want to discard the infant along with the dirty diapers. They seek to defy Nigerians’ desire and take from us what is rightfully and legally ours.
“They want division, war, panic, fear, chaos, subversion, and destabilization, and they engage in the most abhorrent and foul degree of denigration, subterfuge, and malevolence against the Nigerian people and state that we have ever seen in our entire history, while we seek unity, love, peaceful coexistence, and mutual respect.
Fani-Kayode stated on his Twitter page that the people were “angry and upset with the election’s results, and they just cannot live with it.”
They lack the stomach, courage, honor, grace, pedigree, and fortitude to accept loss, he continued.
“To put it simply, they want to overthrow the entire system and the current status quo, impose their will, destroy everything that is morally upright and praiseworthy in our country, rewrite our history, redefine our heritage, destroy our culture, desecrate our values, use religion and ethnicity to seize power, and forge Nigeria in their own enraged, bellicose, frustrated, and jaundiced image.
We must fight back against them with all of our strength and stand up for our nation’s hard-won democracy, civil freedoms, human rights, civic institutions, way of life, religious and ethnic diversity, and heritage, as well as the peace of our land. If we fail to do so, we will perish as a people.
“Nigeria must never fall into the hands of those who want to rip her apart and divide her from the inside out.”
The previous minister emphasized that “peace must reign in Nigeria. Nigeria must grow and succeed. Nigeria must maintain its enviable status as a united people under God by standing tall, powerful, and firmly.