Following the defection of former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani Kayode, to the All Progressives Congress (APC), a chieftain of the APC in Niger State, Comrade Jonathan Vatsa, has lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the party, saying it is an embarrassment to the party.
Speaking with journalists on Sunday in Minna, the former Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism said the desperation with which those that were called thieves yesterday are being wooed and coerced into the ruling party is not only an embarrassment but a confirmation that “the party is struggling for survival.”
Vatsa, who was the spokesman of the APC in Niger State, said now that those who were branded yesterday as “looters” of the country’s treasury are being given red carpet reception in Aso Rock, it has further put to question the anti corruption stand of the present administration.
Vatsa said: “Treasury looters are now heroes in APC. Everything is finished. The party has lost direction,” he said.
“I am shocked not because Femi Fani-Kayode defected to the party, but the kind of red carpet reception accorded him in Aso Rock before the chief anti-corruption crusader himself.
“All Nigerians, including Mr. President, know the controversy surrounding the N2 billion Port Harcourt airport runway contract under Femi Fani-Kayode as Minister of Aviation and his involvement in the Dasukigate.
“It is sad to see those who looted the country with reckless abandon and contributed to the economic problem the country is facing today being received as heroes for defecting to APC, and being received by the president.
“I have said this before and am saying it again that APC needs to apologize to Nigerians that it has missed it. We failed this country in totality, and the honorable thing to do is to say we are sorry.
“When we are beginning to eat our vomits, it means that the entire system has entered reverse gear. The party has continued to de-market itself before Nigerians through the actions of its leadership everyday.”
Vatsa, therefore, mockingly advised secession activists, Nnamdi Kanu and Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho) to take a step of faith and join APC and have their sins forgiven.
He said “I will not be surprised if Kanu and Igboho join the APC and are released from detention with the best of reception accorded them.
“That is the level of desperation that APC found itself. No matter the level of your corruption, when you join APC, you become a saint. It is sad and very unfortunate.”