#ToWhomItMayConcern: There’s nothing personal about my attacks on Buhari — Fani-Kayode

by Ranti Joseph

Femi-Fani-Kayode

The Director General of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) Femi Fani-Kayode, said the attacks on the president-elect, Muhammadu Buhari and officials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were not personal.

Addressing journalists in Abuja, Fani-Kayode on Wednesday congratulated Buhari for winning the election. He also commended President Goodluck Jonathan for having the courage to concede defeat at the just concluded presidential elections.

He urged Nigerians and PDP teeming supporters to stand firm and continue to support the democratic process and continue to agitate for a better Nigeria.

“We urge them to continue to support our party the PDP as best as they can even though we lost this election. We ask them to co-operate with the incoming government and to remember that we are first and foremost Nigerians before anything else,” he said.

Fani-Kayode said on the day of the election that he out went to vote at Ile-Ife, wherein he held a press conference and told the people that more than anything else that they should try their very best to keep the peace in the country and to keep the country moving forward.

“I also reminded them that in every election there will always be a winner and a loser. It is a mark of our humanity and it is also symptomatic of the type of people that we are and who we are that when the time comes we can say we fought a good fight but we lost. And having lost, it does not mean that it is the end to the world, it just means that we need to re-group, re-organise ourselves and begin the process all over again because another election will come in a few years’ time.  And that is where we are today. We have conceded that we have lost. We acknowledge the fact that we fought a good fight. We do not have any fears about the future. We did the right thing during the campaign. We have no regrets about our candidate or the way in which we conducted our campaign and we will live to fight another day. Let me commend all our colleagues on the other side for also standing up for what they believed in. There was absolutely nothing personal as regards this Directorate or myself. I had nothing personal against anybody. I was simply doing my job for which I have no regrets and I wish them well and I sincerely hope that they will take Nigeria to a level that we can all be proud of,” he explained.

“May God grant each and every one of us peace. May He watch over our nation. May He guide our President for the next two months whilst he is still in power and thereafter and may He guide and lead the president-elect in the herculean task that lies ahead for him. My prayer is that he brings our nation together, heals the wounds and that he builds the bridges in terms of religion, ethnicity and region that he needs to build in order for us to make Nigeria a better place and to ensure that Nigeria becomes a great country that she is destined to be. I want to end this message by thanking our colleagues in the press for always responding to us so quickly and for always  being ready to hear our message and for putting it out there. Also those on the social media, both friend and foe, we thank you for your efforts. We thank our foes because they kept us on our toes and we thank our friends because they encouraged us and gave us hope,” Fani-Kayode added.

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