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Keyamo Reacts As Atiku Seeks Obasanjo’s Image On New Naira Note

Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode has slammed Atiku Abubakar for asking the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to use the image of former President Olusegun Obasanjo on one of the naira notes to be newly designed.

Naija News reported that Atiku, in a tweet via his Twitter account on Saturday, said Obasanjo deserves to be one of the faces on the new naira notes due to his role in brokering a peace deal in Ethiopia.

In a statement on Sunday, Fani-Kayode, who is the Director of Special Media Projects and New Media of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential Campaign Council, said Atiku was not being sincere with his proposition.

Fani-Kayode accused Atiku of playing politics with his comment, adding that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is offering a Greek Gift to Obasanjo with his suggestion.

He also claimed that the former Vice President hates Obasanjo with a passion because the former President outsmart him (Atiku) when he attempted to take his place as the Nigerian leader years ago.

Fani-Kayode said; “This is the same man that is now calling OBJ a statesman and is saying he deserves a Nobel Prize and that his face should be on the naira.

“Atiku is lying. He does not mean a word of it. He is offering a Greek gift. He is playing politics.

“Deep down he hates OBJ with a passion and he has always done because the President outfoxed and outpunched him at every turn when he attempted his treacherous move to usurp him and take his place as President.

“Some of us shall never forget that. A man brought you from nowhere and made you his Vice President and you tried to knife him in the back and take his position.

“You tried to disgrace and humiliate him and you coveted his seat. That sounds like Lucifer when he was in heaven to me.

“In the days of President Obasanjo, those of us that were in that government knew him as the pretender, the usurper, and the kingslayer.

“We called him those names because he tried his best to usurp the powers of the then President and he sought every opportunity to undermine, insult, discredit, humiliate and dishonor him.

“We thank God that each time he did so he failed. He tried his best to slay Obasanjo politically but God was with the President and he delivered him from his evil hand.

“It was so bad that on two separate occasions I was constrained to attempt to walk him out of cabinet meetings and I told him off in front of the entire cabinet and President, but each time Obasanjo saved him.

“Had it not been for OBJ’s kindness, merciful nature, and intervention the entire cabinet was ready to take my lead and walk out on him for his treachery.

“We just couldn’t bear it anymore. After I did it the second time he never came back to any cabinet meeting again. We were pleased with that. It’s the best thing he could have done.”

Fani-Kayode said the APC presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, is not a betrayal and has never betrayed those that helped him to power.

He added: “No matter what you say about Asiwaju Tinubu, he has never betrayed those that helped him to power.

“He is loyal to his own to a fault whilst Atiku does not know the meaning of the word.

“A man that is trying to give the impression that he was part and parcel of Obasanjo’s success as President when in actual fact he was trying to frustrate that government’s efforts to improve the lives of our people is nothing less than treacherous and deceitful and he cannot be trusted with power.” 

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