2023: APC Members Attacking Buni Are Moles – Fani-Kayode

A former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has described members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) attacking the Chairman of the Caretaker Committee of the party and Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as moles.

Naija News reports that the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) stalwart made the submission in an interview with Channels Television on Monday.

It is understood that some APC members who are mostly youths have accused Buni and the caretaker committee of delaying the party’s National Convention in order to remain in power.

However, the APC leadership announced on Monday that its much-anticipated convention would take place on March 26 instead of February 26 as earlier announced.

Reacting to the development, Fani-Kayode said those criticising Governor Buni over the national convention are ignorant and oblivion of the challenges in the ruling party.

The former minister claimed that some PDP members are trying to bribe the Yobe governor to ensure that many of the people that crossed over and joined the APC were not accepted.

Fani-Kayode alleged that some politicians are planning to destroy the two dominant parties in a bid to form a third force for the 2023 elections.

He said: “The bottom line is this: If Mai Buni did not have integrity, this party would have sunk long ago. I know for a fact that there are many elements within the PDP that try to literally convince, literally bribe him to ensure that many of the people that crossed over and joined the APC did not do so.

“They tried very hard to stop some of us from leaving. That is the fact. He did not succumb to that. He did the right thing. He reached out to people across the board and brought them on board.

“You must also appreciate the challenges he is facing. The first challenge is this — there are forces within the party, I dare say, that are hell-bent on hijacking the convention by imposing their own candidates.

“There are elements in the party that want to be president at all cost and they are hell-bent on forcing a quick convention and using whatever resources they have to impose their own candidates so that they can now come in 2023 as the party’s flagbearer.

“There is another force which is even more dangerous than that and that is a coalition of outside the party and within the party who have come together and whose resolve is to destroy the APC at all cost, force a convention, let the whole place fall apart and therefore create a third force in order to fight the APC and the PDP.

“If you look at the PDP, there are elements fighting within as well — very strong fight going on. They are planning to form a third force to take us all on. These are issues people have to appreciate.”