{"id":44634,"date":"2015-12-07T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=44634"},"modified":"2015-12-07T12:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:34:04","slug":"cabinet-minister-buhari-dumped-me-because-of-my-political-ideology-says-falana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/cabinet-minister-buhari-dumped-me-because-of-my-political-ideology-says-falana\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet minister: Buhari dumped me because of my political ideology says Falana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3707\">President Muhammadu Buhari did \u00a0not make me Justice minister because he was not comfortable with my political ideology, Femi Falana has disclosed.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3719\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3721\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3720\">He said some people believed that he was \u201ctoo radical\u201d and should not be made attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3722\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3724\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3723\">\u00a0In an interview with The Interview magazine, , Falana said: \u201cI was actually contacted. I was actually invited to come on board. It took me appreciable time to make up my mind. Along the way, I was made to understand there were people who were opposed to my appointment for ideological reasons. It is their right to do so.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3725\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3727\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3726\">He said \u00a0\u201cFor me, it would have been a call to service, not to make money,\u201d he said. \u201cThose who believed\u2026 that I should mobilise people to put in a word for me, or wanted me to speak to somebody I fought on principle several years ago were, of course, disappointed.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3728\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3729\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3730\">&#8220;This guy actually headed one of the universities at a time students were killed. \u201cI had to support the students\u2019 cause at that time. You don\u2019t then expect me to go to him and swallow my vomit. This is what I mean by the ideological price.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3731\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3732\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3733\">\u00a0&#8221; There were\u00a0also \u201ccertain leaders\u201d of the All Progressives Congress (APC) that opposed his appointment because he was not a member of the party.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3734\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3736\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1449487451267_3735\">\u201cOf course, they are right. Certain people wanted me to be opportunistic by offering to backdate a membership card for me. I said, \u2018no, over my dead body\u2019. I wasn\u2019t looking for a job. 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