Tobi Adebayo
A former Minister for Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has dismissed insinuations from critics that he defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) due to a shortage in his finances.
He had come under harsh criticism after his defection to the APC was announced on Thursday by the Presidency.
Responding to the backlash, Fani-Kayode, while speaking on Channels TV programme, Politics Today, said his defection was the “right thing he did at the right time.”
When asked if the move was financially motivated, he described the question as very “insulting” and said it had “no basis to it whatsoever.”
“I don’t expect that kind of ridiculous and absurd question from you. I have never ever lacked in finances. There have been no inducements. Politicians don’t move because of finances. If I wanted finance, I would have moved a lot sooner than today. I have struggled and I have fought over the last six years than any of the little monkeys that said what you just said to me now.
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“I stand proud and I stand tall. The kind of family I come from, the kind of background I have, finance is never an issue, but of course, this is always the absurd narrative that people with a very small brain, with a low intelligence quotient, will always put out when they feel threatened and I don’t care. You can insult me from morning till night. It means nothing to me. What is important to me is my God and the fact that I am doing the right thing at the right time.
“I am considerably more wealthy than most people think and I don’t need anything from anybody. I work hard, I have always worked hard and I never lacked anything good. When I was fighting the government, you didn’t talk about finances or no finances. Now that I am not fighting the government you are talking about finances or no finances. It’s an old narrative. It’s an old story particularly from Nigerians from a particular segment of society like to say about those of us that are in the elite and I am not prepared for such rubbish and I am surprised you can ask me that kind of question,” he said.
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