PDP has no food the lazy, Melaye tells Fani-Kayode

By Lateef Ibrahim, Abuja

One of the Spokespersons to Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  Senator Dino Melaye has told a former chieftain of the party and erstwhile Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode that the leading opposition party in the country has no food for lazy people.

Melaye, who said this in a statement personally signed by him in response to another one earlier made by Fani-Kayode, said, “Sorry, PDP has no food for the lazy”.

Fani-Kayode, who is now a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), had said Dino Melaye of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has implicated top stalwarts of the opposition party.

In a statement on Sunday, the ex-presidential aide made reference to a comment by Dino Melaye, wherein he said, “All the PDP Governors spent money at our party’s National Convention to get Senator Iyorcha Ayu elected as National Chairman”.

The former Aviation Minister described the former Kogi Senator’s revelation as “a grave and serious matter”.

Fani-Kayode, who is popularly known FFK, said it was “a public confession of a criminal offence made by a senior figure within the PDP cabal”.

He said pointed out that Melaye confirmed the PDP chair emerged through “corruption and criminality and so was Waziri Atiku, their party’s presidential flagbearer”.

However, in his statement yesterday,  Dino Melaye noted that Nigerians can not forget in a hurry how Fani-Kayode bootlicked and cajoled Yahaya Bello during his Presidential experiment, but later jumped to the Presidential train of Senator Ahmed Lawan in the throes of the Presidential primary election of the All Progressives Congress in an unabashed and unconscionable manner.

He said, “Now that campaign structures have been formed by parties and he (Fani-Kayode) is sidelined, having lost face everywhere, he has found the PDP as the  access card to his next meal. 

“The reality is that Professor Iyorchia Ayu, a man of repute and impeccable political profile was supported by Governors and members of the Party.

“It is not rocket science that though Professor Ayu emerged by consensus, a convention was held and delegates were mobilized to Abuja.

“Is FFK so obtuse that he can not understand that delegates could not have trekked from everywhere to Abuja without being transported?

“Has he not recovered well enough from the doses administered during his rehabilitation to understand that Governors and other leaders supported  delegates from all states to the National Convention?

“Is he equating the sound mind of Judges with his own reprobate mind that he’s threatening to go to court over a matter that he has neither locus nor a reasonable cause?

“Often, when the issue of FFK comes up, I easily call to mind the time-standing  analysis by President Olusegun Obasanjo of his personality, and the  assertion that food is FFK’s price.

“His likes are appropriately described in Philippians 3:19, as belonging to the class of those whose god is their belly, and whose glory is their shame’.

“Sorry, PDP has no food for the lazy.

And knowing FFK’s reputation for political scavenging, let me also ask him the unanswered question. FFK, who bankrolled your statement?

“His comment was at best  a mixture of prevarication, lack of comprehension and a voyage in meddlesomeness and idleness.

“Truly, an idle hand and heart like that of FFK is the devil’s residence.

“Ordinarily, his rambling would have been ignored, but in this age of unrestricted access to the media even by unwholesome minds, care must be taken to put issues in the right context and perspective.

“The roller-coaster FFK is merely seeking to receive attention, having employed all forms of ingratiation to be recruited by the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), His Excellency Atiku Abubakar, but failed.

“To be sure, he contacted Timi Frank to help lobby for a job in the Campaign Directorate, but where is the record to help his desire? 

“As a serial hustler around food dispensers, FFK’s misadventure into the issue of the leadership of the PDP is nothing but a subtle campaign to be noticed and rewarded by prospective paymasters”, he said.